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red blood cells
red blood cells
Image credit: Red blood cells, Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

Shall We Be Darwin’s Yes-Men?

Around 1970 Michael Denton was a young researcher at Kings College London, thinking about how mammalian red blood cells could become anucleate. Read More ›
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“Radical New Theory” on the Origin of Life?

Some recent work suggests it all happened at once in a sort of “chemical big bang.” Read More ›
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Many “Miracles”: Navigation Arose Independently Across Diverse Animal Species

From sea turtles to the family dog, animals travel unerringly over long distances using geophysical cues. And it all evolved, independently, by chance! Believe that? Read More ›
rings of Saturn
rings of Saturn
Photo: Rings of Saturn, by NASA / JPL / Public domain.

Mistakes Our Critics Make: Information In and Information About

Is there information actually in Saturn’s rings, or is that information produced by intelligent agents studying Saturn’s rings? Read More ›
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New ID Book Zeroes in on Evolution’s Zero-Probability Problem

Eric Anderson explores the challenges of building a self-replicating 3-D printer, and the light this sheds on the origin-of-life community’s search for their Holy Grail. Read More ›
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Here’s How to Fight Censorship — In a “Nutshell”

The five authors, led by Thomas Y. Lo, cover the range of evidence for intelligent design in under 150 pages. Read More ›
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Photo: Claude Shannon, by DobriZheglov [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics. Read More ›
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Photo: Snow flakes as seen through a scanning electron microscope, via Wikimedia Commons.

DNA as Clue: How Intelligence Detects and Creates Information

What does it mean that there’s information in DNA, and how does this distinguish it from most other physical objects? Read More ›

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