Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

Immune System

ERV
Image credit: lisichik, via Pixabay.

Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses

It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
coronavirus
evolution
Photo: A coronavirus, by CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM / Public domain.

#4 Story of 2020: Evolution, Design, and COVID-19

The waves may be huge and the surface roiling, but the deeper waters continue as they always have, essentially undisturbed. Read More ›
Wally the Llama
Photo: Wally the Llama, by Sonya Paske, Capralogics Ltd., via EurekAlert!

A Biomimetics Cure for COVID-19? Thank This Llama

What appears to have great prospects for widespread, safe deployment of an inhalable anti-coronavirus therapy comes from an unlikely source. Read More ›
Geoffrey Simmons
coronavirus
Photo source: Geoffrey Simmons.

Coronavirus Response: Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on Design in Nature and Medical Science

One might object that if our immune system were intelligently designed, it would be utterly immune to all pathogens. Read More ›
COVID-19

Doctor’s Diary: Our Remarkable Healing Processes and the Coronavirus Infection

There are several ways to fight this pandemic besides social isolation, wearing masks, and proper hand-washing. Read More ›
Charles-Darwin

Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”

Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities. Read More ›
Randolph_M._Nesse 2

The Myth of “Darwinian Medicine”

The very admission that Darwinism has had no role in medical science is a telling argument not for its inclusion, but for its irrelevance. Read More ›
coronavirus 2
Photo: A coronavirus, by CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM / Public domain.

Evolution, Design, and COVID-19

From time to time a storm arises in the virosphere and affects humans. Read More ›
dolphins-1

No Harm, No Foul — What If Darwinism Were Excised from Biology?

Considering several recent papers shows that eliminating evolutionary words and concepts simplifies and improves scientific explanations.  Read More ›
Astrocyte5 2

Cellular Self-Sacrifice — And an Allegory

No one knows how apoptosis came to be, although there are theories. Even the simplest of animals are programmed for it. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute