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CSC Science Team Asks: What Should We Expect to Find in Nature?

The junk DNA paradigm shift is a good example of how an intelligent design framework can serve as a productive guide to scientific research.  Read More ›
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Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Read More ›
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Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design

The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures Read More ›
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Orchids, Moths, and (Supposed) Evolutionary Predictions

What Adami has actually done is taken a prediction that has nothing to do with evolution and attribute it to evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Avida and Making Eye Evolution Seem Plausible

Adami says, “it is hard not to see the parallels to other evolutionary innovations, for example the co-option of the existing crystallin protein in the eye.” Read More ›
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Lessons from Cooked Amoebas: The Dallinger Experiment

Christoph Adami discusses work by Reverend William Dallinger, a contemporary of Charles Darwin. Read More ›
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Applying Scientific Method to the Origin of Life Yields Shaky Results

Scientists are not, or should not be, tabloid headline writers. They should only make claims that are strongly supported by evidence. Read More ›
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The Story of Everything: Why This Documentary Matters

It is a moment when the evidence has accumulated to the point where the materialist story is no longer the path of least resistance. Read More ›
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Scientists Keep Removed Human Uterus Alive for a Day; Get Ready for Experiments

So, the plan ultimately is to manufacture human life solely for experimenting upon. Read More ›
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Yet Another Demonstration that Life’s Origin Required an Intelligent Agent

James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Read More ›

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