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Photo: Trypanosoma brucei, by Alan R Walker, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could Genetic Mutations Be Non-Random? New Evidence for Mutational Bias

The researchers examined the emergence of a mutation in the human APOL1 gene that confers protection from African sleeping sickness. Read More ›
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4-D Nucleome Mapping Opens New Vision of Dynamic DNA Architecture

DNA is not a static sequence to read; it is a code that builds and operates its own factory. Read More ›
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No. 3 Story for 2025: Immaterial Genome Is Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Read More ›
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Horse and Zebra Intently Staring at Each Other on Black Background
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The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned. Read More ›
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Tortured, Contradictory: The Legacy of James Watson

"A noxious atheist, Watson unwittingly pointed the way toward scientific evidence of a creator." Read More ›
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With Neanderthals and Denisovans, We Are All the Same Kind of Being

Evolutionary anthropologists need to stop putting people groups into “less evolved” categories. It’s a form of historical racism.  Read More ›
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›
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Digital illustration DNA structure in blue background
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Darwin’s Orphan Foe: A Gene Army Comes for Darwinism

Evolutionary theory led evolutionists to expect these genes to be rare. As it turns out, they aren’t. Read More ›
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Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Read More ›
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Two Peer-Reviewed Papers Apply Behe’s “Darwin Devolves” Thesis to Cancer 

One day in the mid 2010s, Ann Gauger and I received a message that an ID-friendly scientist was in town and wanted to meet us. Read More ›

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