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Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake

But then the complexity is not interesting. Crucially, it’s not really information. Read More ›
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The Intelligent Design of Sleep

We’re asleep an average of about 26 years of our life! Most people have a sense that sleep is important. Read More ›
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New Paper: Appeals to Evolutionary Plateaus Do Not Save Evolution

In evolution, mutations that increase fitness can be thought of as moving uphill, whereas mutations that decrease fitness can be thought of as moving downhill. Read More ›
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What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish?

According to celebrity scientific atheist Neil deGrass Tyson, ETs would look nothing like us, because there is no reason they would. Read More ›
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Meyer on Mind Pump: Intelligent Design for the Fitness Crowd

Dr. Meyer is talking about Albert Einstein’s greatest error with a huge “podcast that is dedicated to providing truthful fitness and health information.” Read More ›
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Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Read More ›
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On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence

In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Read More ›
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Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story for 2025: Optimization and “Evolution Before Our Eyes”

On Daphne Major, a Galápagos island, there are three major types of finch food: large seeds, small seeds, and pollen and insects. Read More ›
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Michael Levin: “Evolution by Natural Induction” (By What?)

Levin and his colleagues are unintimidated by those bullies who labor to forestall a crackup on the orthodox evolutionary team. Read More ›
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Optimization: The Engineering Explanation for “Evolution Happening Before Our Eyes”

On Daphne Major, a Galápagos island, there are three major types of finch food: large seeds, small seeds, and pollen and insects. Read More ›

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