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Glowing flagellar motor at the base of a bacterial flagellum visualizing the rotary motion and its energy source
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Can the Flagellum Get Any Better? Yes! Add Gears

The bacterial flagellum is more souped-up than even Michael Behe thought: it’s a gear-driven motor of motors! Read More ›
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More to Love about Springtails, Those Adorable Gymnasts

Does it have to be called an “evolutionary success” instead of a success? The word “evolutionary” performs no function. It is also contrary to the evidence. Read More ›
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Exploded 3D visualization of a bacterial flagellum motor — molecular rotor proteins, membrane layers, proton flow illustrated
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Vindicated: Three Dover-Related Predictions of Intelligent Design

The design of the bacterial flagellum, mocked at Dover, is supported in time for the trial's anniversary by research from three Harvard physicists. Read More ›
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Robert P. George on the Reality and Importance of Human Exceptionalism

Whether or not human beings are exceptional is one of the most important questions of our age. Read More ›
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In the War on Reality, a Biologist Became a Casualty

Enough people may still believe that the human being is not just an animal and there is such a thing as truth. Read More ›
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Photo: Escherichia coli, by Gene Drendel, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Rewriting Code of Life” Sounds a Lot Like Intelligent Design

Modifying the genetic code is easy. Right? It would have to be, under an evolutionary understanding. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin Calls on the Smithsonian to Get It Right on Human Origins

The Smithsonian Institution has recently been called out by the Trump Administration for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives.” Read More ›
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On YouTube, Dave Farina Gives Avi Loeb the Hamas Treatment

Farina was known to us before for his puerile attack videos aimed at intelligent design proponents. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›
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Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that." Read More ›

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