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Evolutionary Obstacles to the Origin of Introns

The only type of explanation that adequately accounts for this type of phenomenon is a goal-directed, or intelligent, cause. Read More ›
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Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 7469, by ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans.

How Modern Physics Reveals Purpose in the Universe

Scientists agree that our universe is finely tuned for the existence of life. But is the fine-tuning a happy accident or the result of foresight? Read More ›
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Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Fossil Record Data

The fossil record is consistent with the engineering-based theory of bounded adaptation Read More ›
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Image: ʻOumuamua, by ESO/M. Kornmesser. Derivative: nagualdesign [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Avi Loeb Bumps Up Against Methodological Naturalism 

Jonah Goldberg talked with Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb about “Oumuamua, Alien Life & Fighting the Mainstream Science Community.” Read More ›
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Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 6872, by NASA/ESO/JPL-Caltech/DSS.

Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman

I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause. Read More ›
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Design Detection in the New York Times — The Issue of Science Fraud

When the pincer closes around a pattern, intelligent causation is uniquely implicated. Read More ›
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Photo: Cueva de Ardales, © João Zilhão, ICREA, via EurekAlert!

Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference

An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location. Read More ›
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Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›
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Image at the top: From Episode 5 of Science Uprising, “Origin of Life: Intelligence Required.”

Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin

The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing! Read More ›
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James Tour
Image at the top: From Episode 5 of Science Uprising, “Origin of Life: Intelligence Required.”

Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin

The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing! Read More ›

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