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elephant seal
Photo: Elephant seals, San Simeon Beach, by David Coppedge.

The Elephant Seal in the Room

You’ve heard about salmon, whales, and sea turtles. Now learn what the clumsy-looking elephant seal accomplishes navigation-wise. Read More ›
Labyrinth
Photo credit: Dan Asaki via Unsplash.

Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith: A Postscript

As is the case with the Biblical parables of Jesus, this one is entirely self-explanatory and needs no further comment from myself. Read More ›
E. coli
innovate
Photo: E. coli bacteria, by NIAID [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Read More ›
harvester ants
Photo: Harvester ants, by Donkey shot, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ants Use Algorithms Similar to Those of the Internet

Optimization algorithms enable the ant colony to decide how many ants to send to a given food source and when to drastically reduce the number. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Miroslaw Miras, via Pixabay.

No More Confusion: Three Categories of Biological Redundancy, Simplified

Rewriting the categories of biological redundancy in terms of function clarifies their purpose and contribution. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.

How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy

ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful. Read More ›
Hawking zero gravity
Hawking zero gravity
Photo credit: Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design

Unsurprisingly, many academics have attempted to overturn the conclusion of a beginning through the most creative of means. Read More ›
jcvi-syn3a-minimal-cell
Image credit: David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-042.

The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”

There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with? Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
Photo: Plasmodium falciparum, by Dr Graham Beards, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance

The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process. Read More ›
Marvin Olasky
Photo: Marvin Olasky, via Discovery Institute.

Marvin Olasky Joins Discovery Institute as New Senior Fellow

“I’ve long admired Discovery’s courageous work on intelligent design,” said Olasky. Read More ›

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