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Jerry Coyne
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Photo: Jerry Coyne interviewed by Dave Rubin on The Rubin Report (screen shot).

Welcome, Jerry Coyne, to the Exciting Field of Intelligent Design Research

The anatomy, embryology, and evolution of the recurrent laryngeal nerve are fascinating. 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 ›
Darwin Tree
Image: Darwin’s Tree (1837), a sketch from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and Common Descent

A reader asks, “I was just wondering why some fellows at Discovery believe in ID but still hold to common descent.“ Read More ›
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Examining Randy Isaac’s Critique of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics

The standard evolutionary model is incapable of driving major transformations such as a fish evolving into an amphibian. Read More ›
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Photo: Linus Pauling, Nobel laureate, by Oregon State University via Flickr (cropped).

Intelligent Design Wins Another Nobel Prize

The design inference is obvious but often implicit, because explicit acknowledgement of design in biology carries with it substantial career risk. Read More ›
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Image credit: Illustra Media, from Origin:  Design, Chance and the First Life on Earth.

Membrane Channels Show Astonishing Specificity

The “selectivity filters” in membrane channels of living cells are able to discriminate between very similar molecules or atoms using complex mechanisms. Read More ›
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Nathan Lents Doesn’t Understand…Refrigeration

Lents studies rotting corpses and household plants. He might not know much about (living) human physiology. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Kirk Durston.

Reality Check: Has Science Explained the Origin of Life?

Imagine you wanted someone who hasn’t the faintest idea what a book is to make a book from scratch. Read More ›
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Image: The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo Buonarroti [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome: A Case Study in Cognitive Bias

In a previous article I described how scientific training can condition some scientists’ minds to resist the evidence in nature for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Image: Adam and Eve, Doge’s Palace, Venice, via Wikicommons.

Adam and the Genome — Review and Conclusion

In retrospect, where does the evidence stand? Here’s a summary: Venema’s main claims in light of the relevant science. Read More ›

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