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Postcard from Budapest: Intelligent Design Is Growing in Europe

I started with a brief explanation of what ID theory is and how it works and then went through about a dozen examples of ID research. Read More ›
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The Intelligent Design of Sleep

We’re asleep an average of about 26 years of our life! Most people have a sense that sleep is important. Read More ›
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A Level Above: The Superiority of the Design Approach

"According to evolution, biology should be a level below human technology because evolution is constrained." Read More ›
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What Academics Actually Think: Higher Priorities and Silent Support for Design

"One of the most encouraging things I’ve found in academia is how many people secretly support intelligent design." Read More ›
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Misinformation About a Masterpiece: An Engineer Responds to a Colleague

"We have the anatomy department claiming the human spine is a bad design, whilst the engineering department is improving bridge design by copying it!" Read More ›
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Papers: Argumentation and Surprise Are Best Ways to Do Good Science

I’m sure the authors of these papers didn’t mean to pay ID any compliments, but everything we’ve seen here closely tracks with intelligent design literature. Read More ›
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How microservices enhance application modularity
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Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution

The fundamental problem with this analysis is that sexual reproduction does not make anything modular. Read More ›
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20,000 Bots Under the Sea: A Fantastic Voyage into the Cell

Imagine you have been invited to a futuristic discovery center, a facility that has pioneered the ability to shrink people and objects many orders of magnitude. Read More ›
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We Have Liftoff: Genius Engineering Solutions in Muscle

The very act of generating force creates a formidable engineering challenge. How is this problem solved? Read More ›
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Life at the Limits of the Possible

Dr. Stuart Burgess suggests that organisms at the extremes not only exemplify ultimate engineering but specifically point to theistic design. Read More ›

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