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Photo credit: Lars Plougmann from London, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Meet the Ghostly Organisms that Rescue the Planet

A man was paddleboarding last month when he came across a mysterious creature three miles off the shoreline of California. Read More ›
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New Open-Access Book from South Africa Explores Intelligent Design and Science-Faith Issues

We’ll feature excerpts here in the future, but for now I’d like to highlight some special features of chapters in the book. Read More ›
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Fleshing Out a Theory of Biological Design

Steve Laufmann and Michael Egnor explore these and other insights at the intersection of biology and engineering. Read More ›
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More Evolution by Devolution: Mammalian Hairlessness

The mechanism of Darwinian evolution absolutely works — by breaking genes, when that provides a selective advantage, or turning them off. Read More ›
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Photo: A Portuguese man-o’war, by Volkan Yuksel, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Synchronized Swimming in Siphonophores: A Design Worth Imitating

It must be good if engineers want to copy it. Siphonophores are colonial animals that have mastered the sport of synchronized swimming. Read More ›
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Your Designed Body: “Irreducible Complexity on Steroids”

How could blind evolutionary processes, such as neo-Darwinism’s mechanism of natural selection working on genetic mutations, build this bio-engineering marvel? Read More ›
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For Darwinism, Pregnancy Is the “Mother of all Chicken-and-Egg Problems”

Evolutionary biologists tend to silently glide over such issues, which clearly point to intelligent design. Read More ›
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Reeves: A Rising Star Describes a Biological Revolution

“Engineers more easily recognize impressive design because they have actually tied to build stuff.” Read More ›
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Bone Growth Demonstrates Irreducible Complexity and Hierarchical Control

How does a bone “know” to keep its structures at proper ratios along its length as it grows? Read More ›
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Photo: A wax worm, by Sam Droege, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Foresight in the Biosphere: Lowly Organisms Help Rescue the Planet from Pollution

Need technology to fight the effects of technology? Look instead to living things that already have solutions. Read More ›

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