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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Read More ›
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Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses

It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
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More on How Chimps and Humans Differ: Human-Specific Genes

“We don’t splice our RNA the same way chimps do,” says biologist Dr. Ann Gauger, continuing a conversation with host Sarah Chaffee. Read More ›
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Ciliated Protozoa
Photo: Oxytricha trifallax, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Wonders of Genomic Acrobatics: Ciliated Protozoa as a Case Study

Explaining this sort of phenomenon by slight, successive modification, as Darwin envisaged, seems problematic. Read More ›
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Image credit: Filipe Tavares Cadete, via Flickr (cropped).

Histone Code: A Challenge to Evolution, an Inference to Design

Histones are responsible for organizing and packaging the DNA of a cell nucleus into structural units known as nucleosomes. Read More ›
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Gerber Baby
Photo: Lucas Warren, the new Gerber Baby, via YouTube/Radio.com.

Abortion and the New Eugenics

Ruth Marcus sees the eugenics danger with which we are presented — and doesn’t care. Read More ›
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Photo: Chicken embryo, one week old, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

How Embryonic Development Bears on Evolution

In order for evolution to have occurred as the orthodox theory describes, the intricate embryonic development stages of species must have evolved. Read More ›
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The Mismeasure of Man: Why Popular Ideas about Human-Chimp Comparisons Are Misleading or Wrong

You have probably heard that our DNA, the stuff that makes us human, is only 1% different from chimps. Read More ›

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