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Denis Noble
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Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis 

Leading the charge against the model is — of all people — one of Dawkins’s own doctoral examiners at Oxford, the renowned physiologist Denis Noble. Read More ›
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Predictions for the Guppy from the Engineering/Design Model

An engineering model would predict that guppies are designed with operational parameters for different traits, which are set by overarching design logic. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith on Nature Article about Alarming Gene Editing

Using the breakthrough technology known as CRISPR, scientists are not only altering the genes of a given creature. Read More ›
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Don’t Let Profiteers Control Human Genetic Engineering

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dire warning. But we aren’t paying heed. Read More ›

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