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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: HuffPost Reviews The Myth of Junk DNA

Yes, it's the venerable principle of Darwinian theory that says: Whatever turns out to be the case is retrospectively recognized as having been exactly what the theory predicted. Read More ›

Privileged Planet: Dartmouth Physicist on the Surprising Fact of Complex Life, on Earth or Anywhere

This interestingly turns Steve Meyer's argument in Signature in the Cell on its head. Let's assume we get the first, simple life as a free gift. Read More ›

A Cordial Invitation to Dr. Dennis Venema and Others: The Gates to Commenters Are Thrown Open

We don't routinely open the comments feature at ENV because of the staffing requirement that comes into play when we do, cleaning up after Darwinists who don't know how to have a discussion on science without descending to the gutter. Read More ›

Richard Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiments with E. coli and the Origin of New Biological Information (Updated)

Dennis Venema's argument collapses into this: "if Darwinian evolution can do anything, then ID is wrong." But this is not how we test ID, for ID readily allows that natural selection and random mutation can effect some changes in populations. Read More ›

Engineering at Its Finest: Bacterial Chemotaxis and Signal Transduction

The bacterial flagellum represents not just a problem of irreducible complexity. Rather, the problem extends far deeper than that. What we are now observing is the existence of irreducibly complex systems within irreducibly complex systems. Read More ›
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The first butterflies fluttering over a clearing with spring flowers.
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Listening to Butterflies

The metamorphosis of butterflies represents "the magic of reality," in Richard Dawkins's wonderful phrase, where actual, not made-up or fictional, biology is so astonishing that its power to move us never goes away. Read More ›

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