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Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›
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“Generative Entrenchment”: A Fundamental Problem for Darwin’s Tree

An “entity” may be so fundamental, so entrenched, arising so early in embryonic development, that it can't be toyed with by evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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Tiled Beauty: Functional Aesthetics in Biology

Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws?  Read More ›
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How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework

The duality of emergence and specified irreducible complexity must be discarded. In doing so, we create a framework compatible with Thomistic Aristotelianism. Read More ›
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In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Read More ›
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A Mathematician’s Simple Yet Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design

We might think that mathematicians are focused on incredibly complex ideas and equations, far above the everyday thoughts of the rest of us. Read More ›
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Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evil

The presence of evil and suffering calls for justification. But which scientific view of life is better placed to help us address these issues? Read More ›
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Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble 

While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Read More ›
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Another Case Where “Junk” Myth Impeded Science

For decades, evolutionary biologists considered non-coding regions of DNA as evolutionary junk. Read More ›

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