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Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”

As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.” Read More ›
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Looking for Things to Be Grateful For? Look No Further Than…Your Eyes

We take them for granted, but our ability to interact with the world through vision is beyond remarkable. Read More ›
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Image: Mitochondria, showing inner and outer membranes, by Terrence G. Frey [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Genetic Surprises Support Intelligent Design Claims

Several news items reinforce ideas advanced by ID advocates regarding junk DNA, irreducible complexity, and human uniqueness. Read More ›
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Crop close up of unhappy young couple sit separate have problems in relationship think of breakup or divorce. Upset man and woman family lovers avoid talking suffer from cheating in relation troubles.
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An Unhappy Couple: Paul Nelson Reports on the Cambridge “Evolution Evolving” Meeting

Nelson offers a comparison from the world of dating. We’ve all seen it: the supposedly content pair where one partner is in fact clearly “looking around.” Read More ›
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Photo: Australopithecus sediba, by Photo by Brett Eloff. Courtesy Profberger and Wits University who release it under the terms below., CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Another Human Ancestor “Falsified”: Study Puts Australopithecus sediba Back in the Ground

It’s not every day that we see evolutionists arguing that we can falsify a species as an ancestor of another species simply because it appears in the wrong time range. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Käpik [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Satellite DNA Is Essential and Species-Specific in Drosophila melanogaster

The next step will be for evolutionists to convert this spectacular failure into compelling evidence that evolution can produce DNA that is both (1) species-specific, and (2) functionally essential. Read More ›
Michael Behe
Photo: Michael Behe, a scene from Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines.

Muller Two-Step Model: A Refutation of Behe on Irreducible Complexity?

Our responses to the Muller two-step have been around for a long time; it would be nice if ID critics would recognize and perhaps answer them. Read More ›
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Photo: A reproduction of Sputnik 1, an artificial satellite, National Air and Space Museum, by NSSDC, NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Crying “Chance, Chance” When There Is No Chance

Note the artfully deployed passive voice. One-way traffic “was finally counteracted by the launch of the first artificial satellites.” Who counteracted it? Read More ›
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This Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

We take them for granted, but our ability to interact with the world through vision is beyond remarkable. Read More ›
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Photo: A zebra finch, Dundee Wildlife Park, Murray Bridge, South Australia, by Peripitus [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Response to a Critic: But What About Undirected Graphs?

A dependency graph is not any old ad hoc hypothesis. It was posited because it is something that we observe in software engineering. Read More ›

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