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Finely Tuned Chemistry and ATP Synthase

Cellular life would be impossible if strong bonds weren’t just so for some cellular functions, and if weak bonds weren’t just so for others. Read More ›
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In Biological Origins, Bottom-Up or Top-Down Causation?

Michael Denton says that the evidence has been growing for top-down causation, which poses a challenge to reductionist and materialistic origins science. Read More ›
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Disagreeing Agreeably — A Timely Lesson from Darwin and Wallace

Adults across the board engage in public fights where the personal destruction of ideological enemies is always a ready weapon. Read More ›
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Michael Denton: When Paradigms Shifts

Dr. Denton reflects on paradigm shifts that he’s witnessed, how his own thinking has changed, and how these shifts challenge Darwinian evolution in new ways. Read More ›
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Listen: Scott Turner on Evolutionary Biology’s Mechanistic Bias

Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Read More ›
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trilobite
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Bechly: The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

Darwinists have long suggested that the fossil record's pattern of major discontinuities is merely an artifact of that record being incomplete. Read More ›
Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
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Michael Denton Explores the “Third Infinity”

The diversity of cells — their variety of form, function, and locomotion — is beyond describing, with some cells almost seeming sentient, indeed ingenious. Read More ›
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Thomas Reid
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Thomas Reid — Recovering Another ID Ancestor

“There’s little doubt in my mind that Reid if he were alive today would be part of the intelligent design movement.” Read More ›
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Charles Darwin statue
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Cancel Darwin? No, But Do Recognize How Evolution Boosted Racism

Cancel culture is becoming surreal. Or should I say even more surreal? “Exotic birds” are now judged to be offensive. What next? Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism

Darwin didn’t merely predict racial genocide; he thought it would advance human evolution. Read More ›

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