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Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding

The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fluorescent Animals: Can They Be Darwinized?

Many animals and plants exhibit fluorescence, changing color in ultraviolet light. Whether this property is adaptive has never been thoroughly investigated.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: AWeith, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Closer Look at Natural Law 

The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›
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The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart

Two signaling molecules — strigolactone and ethylene — can work independently to begin the process of leaf senescence. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Eric Hedin.

Intelligent Design in Color Vision — A Gift to Us

How different our perception of reality would be if our brains processed visual signals from the optical nerve as only varying shades of beige or pink or grey! Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ⓒ David Coppedge.

Epigenetic Biotimer Revealed in Flowers

What goes into getting a flower to develop on a stem is mind-boggling, reports a Darwin-free paper. Read More ›
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Photo credit: John Liu, via Flickr (cropped).

The Marvel of a Seed

From a cursory examination, a seed may seem like a fairly simple little thing, but more analysis reveals layers of functional complexity. Read More ›
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Photo: Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, Seattle, by Seattle Parks via Flickr (cropped).

Nature Worship Advances as Human Dignity Retreats

The dead body has value because the human person does. How we treat our dead reflects our views on what we think about the living. Read More ›
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Forensic Science: More Intelligent Design in Action

Kenneth Singer at Case Western Reserve trained an AI neural network on a million photos, and then on the brush strokes of four renditions of a flower. Read More ›
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Photo: Lupinus pilosus, by Zachi Evenor, cropped by User:MathKnight, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Flowering Plants and Common Descent

If this accurately reflects the argument in the primary research paper, it provides a beautiful example of common descent as axiomatically true. Read More ›

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