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Scientists Say

Introducing Our “Scientists Say” Collection

Many products at our Zazzle store feature direct quotations from renowned scientists calling attention to remarkable features of the natural world. Read More ›
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Photo: Notre Dame gargoyle, by Rita Chou via Unsplash.

The Gargoyle’s Challenge — Remembering Schützenberger on Darwinism

David Berlinski lives in the shadow of the Notre-Dame in Paris and poignantly remembers the cathedral before it burned. Read More ›
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Photo: A humpback whale, by Whit Welles Wwelles14 / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0).

Human Engineers Can’t Top These Biological Intelligent Designs

In labs around the world, scientists are fascinated by living designs. Here are just a few examples of what is being reported on a weekly basis. Read More ›
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The Human Body as a Biomimetic Inspiration

As symbols of the perfection of human form, one might consider the Venus de Milo or Michelangelo’s David. But those don’t show the insides. Read More ›
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Applied Intelligent Design: Engineers Know Engineering When They See It

The adhesive properties of gecko toe pads, based on atomic van der Waals attraction, have been understood for years now. Read More ›
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Hey, Paul Davies — Your ID Is Showing

No better advertisements for intelligent design exist than works written by establishment scientists that unintentionally make design arguments. Read More ›
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“Safe to Question” — Another Graduate of Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Shares Her Story

Discovery Institute is populating a community of dissenters in academia with the annual all-expenses-paid Summer Seminars. Read More ›
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Join Us: Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, April 23-25, in Southern California

The most spectacular example of an engineered living system is the human body, toward the invention of which the whole cosmos appears to have been very carefully aimed. Read More ›
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Science Education and the Growth Mindset

Growth mindset is an idea popularized by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. Read More ›
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World Magazine: Darwin Devolves Is Science Book of the Year; Foresight Makes the Short List

This, of course, comes on top of kudos Dr. Eberlin had already received from, among others, no fewer than three Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Read More ›

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