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Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design

Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should. Read More ›
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Photo: Mantid may imitate a leaf or a flower to avoid being eaten, by Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Design Filter Is Best Bet for Finding Liars

Not all intelligent design is benevolent. Design can deceive. Can ID techniques filter the true from the false? Read More ›
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Reeves: Getting Intelligent Design Wrong, and Getting It Right

Daniel Reeves explains what ID really is — it's not unlike detective work — and the central question ID seeks to answer. Read More ›
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A Scientific Method for Design Detection

My first exposure to intelligent design detection in science took place during a summer job with National Defence Research in 1978 as an engineering student. Read More ›
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Straw Man: Nathan Lents Versus the Theory of Perfect Design

True, things go wrong with our bodies, with results that range from the tragic to the merely expensive or inconvenient. Read More ›
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Update on the Arabian Rock Structures: Intelligent Design in Action

The scientist who used ID reasoning to distinguish between natural and designed structures in Saudi Arabia has just returned with a plethora of new photos. Read More ›
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The Materialist Narrative and the Power of Bias

Scientists in Western cultures have been trained to see the world through a materialist metanarrative where the only acting players are matter and energy. Read More ›

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