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Flower display
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 ›
poppies
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 ›
dandelion
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 ›
painter
Photo credit: dusan jovic via Unsplash.

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 ›
Lupinus pilosus
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 ›
geraniums
Photos: Geraniums, by Sabina Bajracharya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plant Diversity and Computer Programming

I asked the gardener how come, after all these years, the soil in my geranium pots is at roughly the same level. Read More ›
bee orchid
Photo: Ophrys apifera, also known as the “bee orchid,” by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE / CC BY-SA.

Sex Chromosomes Refuse to Fit One Origins Theory

The designer made the sexual organs of angiosperms, namely, flowers, to be the most spectacularly beautiful structures in biology. Read More ›
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No Escape from Intelligent Design: Brian Miller Explores Coevolution

“Coevolutionary processes cannot drive macroevolution,” explains Dr. Miller. “Again it requires intelligent design.” Read More ›
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Earth — The Mystery of Our Colorful Home

Certainly, there is no logical reason why life should be wedded to the transcendental value of beauty. Read More ›

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