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Mercy: For Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, Deadline Extended to April 15

The last minute rush of applications might have had something to do with the fact that Doug Axe spoke to a student group at Harvard days before yesterday’s official deadline fell. Read More ›
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Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›
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Where Design Explains, Darwinism Explains Away

Immediately you know these structures were designed. How should you know that? How did the scientists know that? Read More ›
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“Scientific Dissent from Darwinism” List: The Tip of an Iceberg

The signers of the Dissent list have all risked their careers or reputations in signing. Such is the power of groupthink. Read More ›

The Intelligent Design Underground and Other Reflections

A biologist in our network worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. He recounted how about a quarter of the postdocs he encountered were at least sympathetic to design arguments. Read More ›
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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Advances in Biology Discredit Argument that Cooption Can Explain Irreducible Complexity

One of most popular attempts at explaining the flagellum via cooption was developed by Nicholas Matzke. Read More ›
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Space Archaeology — How About Cellular Archaeology?

ʻOumuamua is a fascinating object, and certainly deserves further investigation. How could we discern design from non-design? Read More ›
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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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Biomimetics Moves STEM Education in an Intriguing Direction

An initiative by a major biomimetics lab to prepare students for careers in STEM introduces them to biological coding. Read More ›

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