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Photo: D. melanogaster, by By Sanjay Acharya [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

On the Evolutionary Origin of New Genes, Stephen Meyer Is Vindicated Again

Most studies simply infer or invent some story about the evolution of a gene without any experimental tests. Read More ›
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Photo: Humpback whale, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dolphins, by werdepate, via Pixabay.

Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again

The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life. Read More ›
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Photo: Frances Arnold, Caltech, by Beavercheme [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Intelligent Design?

The problem these efforts face in the lab is exactly the problem faced by Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism in the wild. Read More ›
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Photo: A soybean cyst nematode, by Agricultural Research Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Suspicious Pattern of Deletions

Winston Ewert recently published a paper in BIO-Complexity suggesting that life is better explained by a dependency graph than by a phylogenetic tree. Read More ›
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Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”? Read More ›
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Photos: J.P. Moreland, lecturing at the 2018 Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, by Daniel Reeves.

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Expand Students’ Intellectual Horizons

A primary reason why many biologists never question the standard evolutionary model is their very limited training in mathematics. Read More ›
Tree of Life
Photo: Tree of Life, at Walt Disney World Resort, by KirkMoorePhoto [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Dependency Graph Hypothesis — How It Is Inferred

Ewert proposes that life is best explained not by Darwin’s hypothesis of an ancestry tree, but by a modern design-inspired hypothesis. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ramalho-Santos lab, via University of California, San Francisco.

As Research Advances, Debunking “Junk DNA” Is Almost Trendy

Why not treat the whole genome as functional? This is a radical concept, but perhaps the focus on genes distorts our understanding.  Read More ›
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Tom Bethell

Darwin’s House of Cards Gets Praise — And Underinformed Criticism

As Tom Bethell points out, there is a lot more to living things than their DNA. Read More ›

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