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Without Hemoglobin, How Do Icefish Survive the Cold? By Design

Icefish, aka the family Channichthydiae, survive at 0oC in the Southern Ocean by maintaining blood viscosity at the set point of 3.27 centipoise. Read More ›
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Image: Cassini Saturn orbiter via JPL/NASA.

Microbe Performs Rocket Science, Vital for Life on Earth

This little machine, which also knows how to recycle and reuse all its parts in a sustainable “green” way, keeps the nitrogen in balance for the whole planet. Read More ›
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No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability

As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work. Read More ›
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red blood cells
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“Designed for [a] Purpose” — Heme Production Defeats Evolution

Hemoglobin is well known as the molecule that transfers oxygen in blood, but its precursor, heme, is lesser known. Read More ›
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Why Do We Not Spontaneously Combust?

James Lovelock has pointed out that atmospheric levels of oxygen much above about 25 percent, let alone 30 percent, would cause raging conflagrations today. Read More ›
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In a Nutshell: Three Problems for Evolution

Biologist Robert Waltzer briefly details the engineering wonder that permits oxygen to be carried by the blood. Read More ›
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Behe Vindicated Again: Sherpas Climb Everest Easier, Because Darwin Devolves

How can Tibetans survive high altitudes that leave lowlanders gasping? The answer is found in broken genes. Read More ›
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Harvard Molecular Geneticist Vindicates Michael Behe’s Main Argument in Darwin Devolves

Mainstream evolutionary biologists are independently arriving at very similar conclusions to Behe’s central thesis. Read More ›
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Muller Two-Step Model: A Refutation of Behe on Irreducible Complexity?

Our responses to the Muller two-step have been around for a long time; it would be nice if ID critics would recognize and perhaps answer them. Read More ›

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