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Gilson: How a Teacher Wrecked Biology for Me, and How I Got Past It

His biology teacher could take an entire class period to tell Charles Darwin’s life story, and then repeat the same class, virtually verbatim. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin Debunks a Museum’s Evolutionary Propaganda

Luskin and host Eric Anderson call evolutionary theory to task for being overly supple, offering just-so stories to explain a behavior AND its opposite. Read More ›
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An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life. Read More ›
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A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body

Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body — the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems. Read More ›
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Luskin on the Heart of Intelligent Design Theory

Dr. Luskin also responds to evolutionist attempts to explain the origin of exquisite molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum motor. Read More ›
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Mitochondria Promoted to Information Processing Systems

The label “powerhouses of the cell” was too simplistic for the many tasks performed every second by these computing, networking, signaling, regulating wonders. Read More ›
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Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory

Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different. Read More ›
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Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria

The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal. Read More ›
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Evolution’s Circular Web of Self-Referencing Literature

The formula goes like this: 1. Evolution is true. 2. Here’s how it must have happened. 3. Look, yet more proof of evolution. Read More ›
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William Dembski Offers an Updated Edition of an Intelligent Design Classic

Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years. Read More ›

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