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What Can Science Tell Us About the Existence of God?

The worldview of materialism is increasingly at odds with the latest scientific discoveries of the last hundred years. Read More ›
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Do or Die: How Life’s Engineering Keeps Us Alive

Can purely material causes account for the coherent, interdependent, tightly coordinated, and precision-tuned systems that life requires? Read More ›
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Stuart Burgess: Biology’s Designs Tutor Our Top Engineers

The human knee is still well ahead of what even the most advanced human engineers have managed. Read More ›
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Photo: Gaze into the eye of a chambered nautilus, © Hans Hillewaert.

Squeezing Out the Mystery: Final Comments on Strickberger’s Evolution

The phenomenon of convergent evolution suggests that natural selection fits better with the analogy of the engineer than it does the tinkerer. Read More ›
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Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution

Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Read More ›

Giraffe Weekend: The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Darwinists have called it one of “nature’s worst designs,” “obviously a ridiculous detour,” asserting that “no engineer would ever make a mistake like that.” Read More ›

Water — We’ll Drink to That

Dr. Howard Glicksman goes beyond a discussion of irreducible complexity to something he calls “natural survival capacity.” Read More ›

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