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How Systems Biology Is Adopting an Engineering Framework

Everything from metabolic pathways optimized for efficiency to brain blood vessels designed as protective shock absorbers demonstrates multi-level planning. Read More ›
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CSC Science Team Asks: What Should We Expect to Find in Nature?

The junk DNA paradigm shift is a good example of how an intelligent design framework can serve as a productive guide to scientific research.  Read More ›
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The Remarkable Life-Friendly Properties of Sunlight and Water

“The right light,” says Dr. McLatchie, would be like the thickness of “a few playing cards in a stack stretching beyond the galaxy of Andromeda.”  Read More ›
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Carbon Atom Is Stunningly Fit to Accommodate Advanced Life

Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are non-conducive to life. Read More ›
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How Rare Is Earth? Ask Intelligent Design

Will the Nancy Roman Space Telescope help us find other habitable worlds elsewhere in our galaxy? Absolutely. Read More ›
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How Intelligent Design Enriches Space Exploration

I am delighted to begin a two-part conversation with physicist Dr. Bijan Nemati about his work on the Nancy Roman Space Telescope. Read More ›
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Gordon and Miller Answer Objections to Cosmic Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuning strongly favors theism because it predicts a life-permitting order in advance, while naturalism only retrofits explanations after the fact. Read More ›
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The Missing Two Decades! What C. W. Howell Left Out of His “History” of ID

I conclude my conversation with Dr. Casey Luskin about his critique of a recent book from New York University Press, by C. W. Howell. Read More ›
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Fact-Checking Designer Science: Casey Luskin on ID History Errors

I welcome Dr. Casey Luskin to a new and improved podcast studio for a sit-down, in-person conversation! Read More ›
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The Marvel of a Seed — Applications for Intelligent Design

Growth of the ID movement has occurred through “sowing the seeds” of evidential support for the theory. Read More ›

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