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#10 Story of 2022: Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution

Some discoveries might be surprising from an evolutionary perspective, but not necessarily from a perspective of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Dialogue with ChatGPT on Intelligent Design

ChatGPT is a context-dependent natural language generator that tries to respond relevantly to textual prompts from human users to simulate conversation. Read More ›
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Dave Farina Criticizes Intelligent Design but Doesn’t Understand It

Boom! There goes the “exquisitely documented” evolution of turtles. Sorry, Professor Dave. Read More ›
topoisomerase
Image: Topoisomerase II, via Discovery Institute.

Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution

Some discoveries might be surprising from an evolutionary perspective, but not necessarily from a perspective of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory

Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different. Read More ›
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Beneficial Borgs Have Landed

Borg theory represents a major paradigm shift about how genetic information is stored and shared. Read More ›
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Noncoding RNA Research Gaining Ground Over “Junk” Label

Perhaps it won’t be long before everyone, critics included, looks at the “junk DNA” concept in the rear-view mirror.  Read More ›
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Image: Hexokinase, an enzyme; the original uploader was TimVickers at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem

The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.” Read More ›
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Ralph Seelke: Remembering a Treasured Colleague

I first met you at a conference where you presented a paper on your experiment in long-term-evolution, or LTE. Read More ›
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Mammoth Support for Devolution

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. Read More ›

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