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Listen: The Innovative Cellular Engineering That Keeps Us Alive

When left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward death, not life. So what does it take for life to exist? Read More ›
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Pentadactyl Whale Flipper Is an Engineering Masterstroke

Does the five-digit design of the whale flipper, akin to the five-digit design of so many different kinds of animal limbs, point to evolutionary common descent? Read More ›
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Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Fossil Record Data

The fossil record is consistent with the engineering-based theory of bounded adaptation Read More ›
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Is Adaptation Actually a Fight to Stay the Same?

Charles Darwin pointed to small changes like finch beak size and peppered moth color as visible evidence of an unguided evolutionary process at work. Read More ›
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Intelligence Metrics: Measuring the Degree of Intelligence in Design

I had the privilege of speaking on intelligence metrics. Here are my slides. I hope soon to develop this talk into a proper peer-reviewed paper. Read More ›
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Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Image: Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger / Public domain.

Protein Evolution, the Waiting-Time Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

After being asked to evaluate the scientific case against Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger dove into population genetics. Read More ›
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Exposing Professor Dave’s Playground Tactics and Citation Bluffing Blitz

It’s true that sometimes it can be hard to tell that serious problems remain unsolved until you drill down into the scientific details. Read More ›
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Could Blind Forces Build a Self-Replicating Molecule?

Rob Stadler and Eric Anderson examine a recent paper on the origin of life, “An RNA Polymerase Ribozyme that Synthesizes Its Own Ancestor.” Read More ›
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Photo: Galaxy IC 5332, by James Webb Space Telescope/NASA, via Flickr (cropped).

Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. Read More ›
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Physicist Eric Hedin Probes the Limits of Science

Are we free to look beyond materialism for answers to important scientific questions? Read More ›

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