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Explore Intelligent Design in Molecular Biology with Douglas Axe at DiscoveryU

Dr. Axe devotes a lecture to scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s objection to intelligent design based on supposedly “stupid design” in nature. Read More ›
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New Article Purports to Help Explain the Origin of the Genetic Code

Without all of the described investigator interventions, a system of replicating RNAs could never emerge or even sustain itself. Read More ›
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Charles Marshall: Origin of Life Could Have Happened “Millions of Times”

Charles Marshall at U.C. Berkeley represents establishment opinion in current evolutionary theory, and for good reason. Read More ›
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Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics (Updated)

Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Read More ›
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Mistakes Our Critics Make: Information Theory

Researchers felt compelled to describe biological information using such phrases as “coding schemes,” “carries meaning,” “core program,” and “hierarchical rules (grammar).” Read More ›
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Teeth, Mollusks: Design in Biominerals

The subject of biomineralization also allows comparing the explanatory power of design over Darwinian evolution.  Read More ›
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Researchers Spot a New Code in Disordered Proteins

The scientists call heat shock proteins “nature’s ‘first responders’ to cellular stress.”  Read More ›
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Making Predictions Against Design

From back when I was a sophomore taking biochemistry, one particular event stands out in my memory, perhaps because it was such an odd thing. Read More ›
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Astrobiology: Searching for the Origin of Life, In All the Wrong Places

Astrobiologists think they may have found where life came from — cyanide in meteorites! Read More ›
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How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight

He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.” Read More ›

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