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Image credit: Mitochondriale_Elektronentransportkette.svg: Klaus Hoffmeierderivative work: Matt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Appreciating the Molecular Detail of ATP Synthase

Here, I wish to highlight this animation, again narrated by Harvard’s Professor Robert Lue. Read More ›
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Image credit: Fvasconcellos 22:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Watch: Animation Reveals the Intricacies of the Electron Transport Chain

In short, the electron transport chain involves the flow of electrons through a respiratory chain. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Rittmeyer EN, Allison A, Gründler MC, Thompson DK, Austin CC, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design — In Miniature

Small vertebrates may be a thousand times larger than single-cell organisms, but they occupy a region of parameter space that presents unique properties.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash.

Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Read More ›
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Photo: Red onion cells, by Edoardo Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Review Article Explores Design Patterns in Biological Cells

Living cells are strong candidates for being seen as aspects of the natural world resulting from design by an intelligent agent. Read More ›
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Image: Gliese 12b (artist's imagining), via NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Interstellar Travel: Fantasy or Destiny?

Borrowing from science fiction, one of the more intriguing possibilities for interstellar travel involves nullifying the inertia of the entire spaceship. Read More ›
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Image credit: Arek Socha via Pixabay.

Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design

Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life. Read More ›
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Ghost Nebula
Photo: Ghost Nebula, by NASA, ESA, and STScI/Acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg).

Intelligent Design Beyond Physics — How Would a Designer Interact with the Universe?

If our minds are “other” than the matter composing our brains, then there must be a means by which the immaterial mind can affect our brains.  Read More ›
Under the Sea
Photo: Jellyfish galaxy JO206, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team.

Vilenkin: A Physicist in Flight from Intelligent Design

If you are not an ideological materialist, it would make more sense just to assume that our universe is designed because of the clear evidence for fine-tuning. Read More ›
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Photo: Great Blue Heron, by NASA / Ben Smegelsky.

Astrophysicist: “We Do Not Yet Know How, Where, or Why Life First Appeared”

It’s good to find another scientist — with no connections to intelligent design — who sees the issue so clearly. Read More ›

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