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evolution education
Photo credit: CGP Grey via Flickr.

New Book Debunks Common Myths in ID-Evolution Debate

Shala Barczewska's book is fair because it offers critiques of both evolution lobbyists and ID proponents and other Darwin-skeptics. Read More ›
balancing act
life
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Recognizing Life Is Different from Natural Processes, Science Balances on the Edge of ID

Scientific materialists must live in a state of cognitive dissonance. Read More ›
Perfect machine
Image: ATP synthase, from “ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell.”

Molecular Machines Reach Perfection

Does anything in nature achieve perfection? Yes, say Japanese researchers looking at an amazing molecular machine in a “primitive” life form. Read More ›
Earth_2 (1)
Image: Europe from space, by Smh232 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

EvoKE Project Pushes European Public to “Accept” Evolution

They seem particularly distressed about those “movements” that do not encourage people to “accept” evolution. Read More ›
Eberlin Behe Mac

Streaming from São Paulo, Launch of Brazil ID Center Was a Great Success!

The Brazilian ID scene has come a long way very quickly. It’s quite amazing. Read More ›
nylon tire
nylonase
Photo: Nylon tire, 1967 AMC Marlin, by Christopher Ziemnowicz (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.5, Public domain or CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Nylonase Story: How Unusual Is That?

Yesterday, I described how some biologists claim that the enzyme nylonase demonstrates that it is easy to get new functional proteins. Read More ›
Brazil center launch
intelligent design

Watch Here Friday as Brazil’s Mackenzie University Launches Its New Center on Intelligent Design!

We’ve already announced the launch on Friday, May 5, of Discovery Institute-Mackenzie by Brazil’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Read More ›
Photo: Nylon parachute, by Lance Corporal Brian D. Jones, U.S. Marine Corps [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Nylonase Story: When Imagination and Facts Collide

A significant problem for the neo-Darwinian story is the origin of new biological information. Read More ›
Venus surface
alien
Image: Surface of Venus, as imagined by a computer artist, via NASA-JPL [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Astronomer Suggests: Look for Ancient Alien Evidence on Venus, Mars, Earth

Is this a scientific paper, or a very clever pre-screenplay treatment for a science fiction film, disguised as a scientific paper? Read More ›
Durston hawk
entropy
Image: Red-tailed hawk with multiple sequence alignment for a protein family, by Kirk Durston.

Fingerprints of an Intelligent Programmer: The “Entropy = Information” Mistake

Note that this is not an argument based on, “We don’t know what can write computer code, therefore God did it.” Read More ›

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