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Your Intelligently Designed Body Is a System of Systems

To be alive, every cell in your body needs solutions to a complicated set of problems. Read More ›
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Close-up of male hands skillfully playing the piano, showcasing professional piano technique.
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“Poor Design”? Actually, the Human Body Is Amazing; Here’s Why

If someone suggests that a coherent, interdependent system of systems arose by chance, they’ll need to back that up with a detailed engineering analysis. Read More ›
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Photo: “...a magnificent world of mountains and rivers, jungles and waterfalls...” (Rio Carrao, Venezuela), by Granville Sewell.

Intelligent Design and the Regularity of Natural Law

The laws of nature work together to create a magnificent world of mountains and rivers, jungles and waterfalls, oceans and forests, animals and plants. Read More ›
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2022 YouTube Film Festival: Fire-Maker

Think of it: from computers to airplanes to life-giving medicines, the technological marvels of our world were made possible by this human use of fire. Read More ›
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Photo credit: West Point, U.S. Military Academy, via Flickr (cropped).

Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Read More ›
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All photos in this article are by David Coppedge.

At the Smithsonian, the Nation’s Museum, It’s All Darwin, All the Time

At the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Charles Darwin dominates almost every exhibit.  Read More ›
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Image: Human knee, by Blausen.com staff (2014). "Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014". WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436., CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›
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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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CELS 2021 — A Report from the Trenches

In this workshop-like setting, a group of 60 biologists, engineers, medical practitioners, and researchers from related disciplines assembled for three days. Read More ›
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Photo: Clockwise from top left, Justin Brierley, Joshua Swamidass, and Michael Behe (screenshot).

A Physician Describes How Behe, and Intelligent Design, Changed His Mind

There’s no better tribute to the power of ideas than a changed mind. Erik Strandness is a physician in Spokane, WA, practicing neonatal medicine. Read More ›

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