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Photo: Parrotfish, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jaw Dropping: Nature’s Irreducibly Complex Linkage Mechanisms

Bristol University engineer Stuart Burgess goes deeper into the marvels of such sea creatures as the parrotfish, sling-jaw wrasse, and mantis shrimp. Read More ›
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Stuart Burgess: Biology’s Designs Tutor Our Top Engineers

The human knee is still well ahead of what even the most advanced human engineers have managed. Read More ›
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Eric Anderson: Probability and Intelligent Design

Anderson taps an area of his expertise, the ongoing efforts to create self-reproducing machines, and he applies it to the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›
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Photo: Chemistry flasks, by David Mulder via Flickr (cropped).

A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Read More ›
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Photo: Nebula IC 2631, by NASA, ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing; Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Casey Luskin: The Irony of Theistic Evolution

The Christian or Jewish theistic evolutionist actually goes a step further than arch-atheist Richard Dawkins. Read More ›
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Photo: Casey Luskin in South Africa.

Casey Luskin: Why Intelligent Design Is Worth Defending

Is intelligent design true? And is it worth expending the energy to defend it against powerful opposition? Read More ›
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Photo: Plasmodium falciparum, by Lukas.S at English Wikipedia(Original text: Lukas 05:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Read More ›
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New Animated Video Dismantles Origin-of-Life Hype

The origin of the first life required not merely design, but an ingenious designing intelligence far beyond that of our smartest origin-of-life researchers. Read More ›
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Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: Nanotech, Origin of Life, and Area 51

Dr. Miller offers an illustrative story: Imagine that what looks for all the world like an alien spaceship is discovered in the desert. Read More ›

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