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Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›
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Dr. Howard Glicksman: Why Evolution Fails to Explain Life’s Design

In a universe of non-living space and matter, life is incredibly rare. To stay alive, all organisms have to overcome a myriad of engineering challenges. 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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Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”

Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›
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Your Body’s Secrets, Revealed in a New Series and a Companion Book

It may seem like a morbid thought, pondering the billions of ways something in your body could “go wrong,” fatally, and then “you’re dead.” Read More ›
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Woodpecker Is a Stunning Example of Irreducible Complexity

A partially functional woodpecker evolving to be a functional woodpecker would be evolutionary dead-end. Read More ›
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“Rewriting Code of Life” Sounds a Lot Like Intelligent Design

Modifying the genetic code is easy. Right? It would have to be, under an evolutionary understanding. Read More ›
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Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble 

While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Read More ›
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Recurring Design Logic in Attenuation Mechanisms

Despite the striking parallels between these systems in terms of the design logic, these attenuation systems are not evolutionarily related to one another. Read More ›
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Green Creatures: The Intelligent Design of Plants

Emily Reeves notes the operation of photosystem II, “the only enzyme in nature that is known to be able to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen." Read More ›

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