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Fighting a Battle That’s Over, and ID Won, Designer Science Omits Key Portions of ID’s History

I want to be fair to Howell, but I also want to be fair to my colleagues who have worked hard developing and publishing new ID arguments over the past 20 years. Read More ›
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Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

Farina’s response to my previous series is characterized by misrepresentations, selective engagement, and reliance on insults and name-calling. Read More ›
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Postcard from Budapest: Intelligent Design Is Growing in Europe

I started with a brief explanation of what ID theory is and how it works and then went through about a dozen examples of ID research. Read More ›
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Moving Intelligent Design Forward: A Seminar to Remember

Graduates won’t be alone. A bonus for Seminar grads is the opportunity to be connected with a mentor who will help them navigate the hostile environment ahead. Read More ›
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Thirty Years of Intelligent Design Predicting the Unexpected Genome

Jonathan Wells’s review was important, but it only scratches the surface of information in biology outside of the DNA. Read More ›
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Evolution of Biological Information: Lizards and a “New” Organ

The first experiment that Christoph Adami discusses is one where scientists transported lizards from one island to another. Read More ›
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Evolution of Biological Information: HIV Evolution

What Christoph Adami’s results actually show is that when HIV is subjected to the protease inhibitors, the sequence variability increases. Read More ›
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Evolution of Biological Information: The Line of Descent

In the end, Christoph Adami’s method has not shown anything about the entropy or information content of ancestral sequences. Read More ›
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Evolution of Biological Information: Maxwell’s Demon

Maxwell’s demon is a hypothetical entity that can increase the energy in a compartment by choosing to admit or exclude incoming particles based on speed. Read More ›
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“SpudCell”: More Evidence that Origin of Life Requires Intelligent Design

This is most curious. SpudCell’s creators are boasting that it has “a much smaller genome” than any other known living cell. Read More ›

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