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Emergence by Design

The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. Read More ›
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Beyond Genes: Biologists Seek Purpose in Unknown Substances, Processes

There’s more going on in DNA and cells than the old Central Dogma predicted. The time has come to look beyond genes. Read More ›
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Does Darwinian Theory Make the Same Predictions as Intelligent Design?

Richard Dawkins predicted that “a large fraction” of our genomes has no function, because, “The true ‘purpose’ of DNA is to survive, no more and no less." Read More ›
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Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›
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Noncoding “Junk” DNA Is Important for Limb Formation

Some defenders of evolutionary orthodoxy would have us believe that we’ve only found a handful of non-coding DNA sequences that have function. Read More ›
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Surprises in Cell Codes Reveal Information Goes Far Beyond DNA

Information is the stuff of life. Not limited to DNA, information is found in most biomolecules in living cells. Read More ›

Adam and the Genome and Citation Bluffing

Yesterday, Douglas Axe responded to Dennis Venema’s review of Axe’s book Undeniable, pointing to what you might call citation bluffing. Read More ›
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Evolution’s Influence Is Bad News for Your Health

Darwin’s theory injected its deeply flawed science into biology, but it did not stop there. Read More ›

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