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bacterial flagellum
Image credit: Illustra Media.

Third Paper Presenting an Engineering Analysis of the Flagellum Makes the Case for Intelligent Design

A diagram in the paper — showing interactions in terms of engineering schematics — is unlike any description of the flagellum that I’ve seen. Read More ›
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Forensic Science: More Intelligent Design in Action

Kenneth Singer at Case Western Reserve trained an AI neural network on a million photos, and then on the brush strokes of four renditions of a flower. Read More ›
tornado
Photo: Photo: A tornado, near Elie, Manitoba, Canada, by Justin1569 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law 

Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Read More ›
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Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design

What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors? Read More ›
Tiktaalik
Photo: Display of Tiktaalik, Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, by Evolution News.

More Fishy Tales Afoot from Neil Shubin

Tiktaalik discoverer Neil Shubin from the University of Chicago searches for genetic clues between fish fins and tetrapod toes. Read More ›
German Shepherd
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Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son. Read More ›
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irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Bacterial Flagellum Demonstrates the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Engineering Models

Dean Schulz investigated the design of the flagellum with a method that could be described as groundbreaking. Read More ›
desert ant
Photo credit: Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Animal Algorithms: Desert Ants and Honey Bees

Eric Cassell argues that these innate skills point to algorithms programmed into the ant’s brain and genome. Read More ›
DNA
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#2 Story of 2021: Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA

There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components. Read More ›
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#3 Story of 2021: In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists on “Waiting Time” Problem for Coordinated Mutations

The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Read More ›

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