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Why High School Biology Made Me Angry (And Why I Like It So Much Better Now)

Your own body has something like 30 trillion cells in it. That’s 30 trillion large cities’ worth of complexity. Read More ›
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SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial. Read More ›
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Dallas Conference: What Does “The Science” Really Say about Faith?

This year's conference, February 17 and 18, will tackle subjects we haven't explored before, including archaeology, transgenderism, and tech addiction. Read More ›
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New Engineering Ideas from Biology

The 2023 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, organized by the CSC's Engineering Research Group, is set for June 1-3 in Denton, Texas. Read More ›
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Fleshing Out a Theory of Biological Design

Steve Laufmann and Michael Egnor explore these and other insights at the intersection of biology and engineering. Read More ›
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On the Miracles of Physiological Design

The book under review is a splendid and uniquely well-informed contribution to the debate about what is by all indices a theory in possibly terminal crisis. Read More ›
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Evolution: How Darwin’s Four Causal Factors Fail

Systems engineer Steve Laufmann explains why the four lack the power to generate life’s great variety of forms. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith Asks, Is Your Body “Engineered”?

Or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? Read More ›
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A Neurosurgeon and an Engineer Explore Your Body’s Intelligent Design

Dr. Michael Egnor makes the surprising confession that his medical library is full of engineering texts. Read More ›
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Diatoms and the Mystery of Morphogenesis

From code to art: how does a linear set of instructions result in a beautifully crafted pattern? Diatoms do it, and scientists are struggling to figure out how. Read More ›

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