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Up from Dawkins: Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me

I wanted to determine whether I was, as Richard Dawkins asserted, an accident of nature. Or was I created by God? Read More ›
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“Pointless Bones”? Nathan Lents Bites at Stuart Burgess’s Ankle

From an engineering perspective, the bones of the ankle, in their complex and functional artistry, are very far from “pointless.” Read More ›
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Life as a Half-Full Glass

A 2018 book by biologist Nathan Lents is full of complaints about our bodies. Professor Lents has been answered in detail already. Read More ›
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Burgess: Claims of “Poor Design” in Skeletal Joints Are Based on Critics’ Lack of Training in Engineering

Burgess’s lecture confronts one of the most common abuses of science aimed at suppressing the evidence for design in biology. Read More ›
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Stuart Burgess Informs Evolutionist Nathan Lents on the Design Genius of the Ankle and Wrist

Darwinists have been led by their philosophy to misjudge human anatomy. Lents, in his fervor, “ignores biomechanics research,” “ignores engineering research.” Read More ›
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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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Human Orphan Genes — Interesting YouTube Talk Tonight by Nathan Lents

A couple of years ago, Professor Lents became fascinated by orphan genes, and went looking for them in the human genome. Read More ›
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Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Were a Turning Point for Me

We have connected alumni with scientists who are conducting key research related to the design debate. Other graduates have become professors themselves. Read More ›
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Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors 

It was Nathan Lents himself who wrote, “I’ve made mistakes, some I caught, others someone else caught. I always correct it the best I can. That’s what honest people do.” Read More ›
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Darwinism, Post-Modernism, and the Summer Seminars

While historically belonging to the pre-modern 19th century, Darwinian evolution teaches what amounts to the deconstruction of what was understood before to be the great design of biology. Read More ›

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