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Investigating the Evidence for Intelligent Design — in Biochemistry and Other Fields

Irreducible complexity and high CSI systems are found, indicating these systems were designed. Read More ›
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Behe: Magnetotactic Bacteria and Other Micro-Wonders

These bugs could point the way to a treatment for cancerous tumors, thanks to their natural ability to maneuver by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field. Read More ›
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Outlining Intelligent Design’s Positive Argument

To borrow geologist Charles Lyell’s words, intelligent agency is a cause “now in operation” that can be studied in the world around us. Read More ›
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At the Bottom of the Glass, God Is Waiting

The German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) is one of the fathers of quantum mechanics and ranks among the greatest scientists of the 20th century. Read More ›
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Bacteria: The Superheroes of the Microbial World

Learn all about these heroes of the microscopic world — and how they provide compelling evidence for intelligent design. Read More ›
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What Is the Positive Case for Intelligent Design?

Imagine that you took your 4x4 truck off-roading and you returned home with the truck covered in mud. Read More ›
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Unraveling the Myth that Undesigned Processes Generate Novel Functions

In short, the sequences performed no new function, so no new information was created. Read More ›
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Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”

He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants. Read More ›
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Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists 

I consider this simple argument as a final nail in the coffin of Darwinian unguided evolution. Read More ›
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Darwinists Seek to Explain the Eye’s Engineering Perfection

First, they turn evolution into an engineer. Personification is a common ploy by Darwinists. Read More ›

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