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Photo: Cyanobacteria, by Joydeep, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

That Was Fast: From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years

That’s now just 1 billion years for all the apparatus to hit on the lucky combination randomly, unless we start with design principles. Read More ›
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Theory of Increasing Complexity Fails the Test of Science

What are evolutionists to do when their theory runs afoul of the laws of nature? Why, propose a bold new law of nature! Read More ›
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Photo: Pacific Ocean, by NASA, Apollo 11, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

How the “Other” ATP Synthase Saves the Planet

A lesser-known rotary engine within cells is responsible for a substantial portion of gases and nutrients that sustain the biosphere. Read More ›
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Photo: Laurence Moran and Paul Nelson, courtesy of Dr. Nelson.

Why Knockouts and Deletions Are Insufficient for Inferring Function — The Mystery of Cell “Vaults” 

The other day, UPS brought me a copy of Larry Moran’s new book. Moran is a well-known opponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Much Ado About Lactase Persistence

Nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as breathless stories about brand new results. This week the topic was “lactase persistence.” Read More ›
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More Turbulence at the Base of the Tree of Life

For a theory whose empirical strength is so great that it cannot be doubted, universal common descent certainly is doubted a lot. Read More ›
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Photo: Mitochondria, shown in red, by NICHD/U. Manor, via Flickr.

Mitochondria: Evolution’s Ever-Receding Ancestor

For years evolutionists thought early cells must have brought other cells inside of them, and those other cells then mysteriously evolved into mitochondria. Read More ›
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Zip It: How Cells Repair Leaking Membranes

Membrane repair would have been necessary for the existence of the first cell. By what miracles did it arise? Read More ›
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Photo: A clock in the meeting room of the Linnean Society, by Paul the Archivist, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

When Darwinian Evolution Became Obsolete

The theory of evolution by natural selection was unveiled to a poorly attended and generally inattentive audience at a Linnean Society meeting. Read More ›
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Evolution’s “Can’t Get There from Here” Problem

Scientists have experimented extensively on the classic lab animal, the fruit fly, mutating its genes in every way they can. Read More ›

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