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Can the Laws of Nature Design Life? Emily Reeves Considers the Compatibility of Evolution and ID

As an example, Dr. Reeves describes how the law of gravity interacts with a growing plant. Read More ›
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Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory

Natural selection can't work until there is something functional enough to select, and without guidance it cannot happen. Read More ›
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Photo: Ganymede casts a shadow on Jupiter, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY.

Science, Scripture, and the Image of God

"The proposition that the universe had an Intelligent Designer is the most fundamental of all scientific theories." Read More ›
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Evolutionist Claims ChatGPT “Lies About Junk DNA”

A null hypothesis, such as expecting the absence of function in non-coding DNA, reveals a presupposition that biases one’s interpretation of the evidence.  Read More ›
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Your Designed Respiratory System: Causal Circularities and Irreducible Complexities

There are individual systems that are irreducibly complex, and these are joined together into a higher-level system of systems. Read More ›
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Did U of Tokyo Just Solve the Mystery of Life’s Origin?

Physicist Brian Miller explains that nothing remotely this dramatic occurred in the experiment. Read More ›
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New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology

Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress. Read More ›
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James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Assembly of Cellular Components

I suspect this challenge will not be widely heeded. Studying these issues will lead researchers toward a conclusion they simply are not willing to accept. Read More ›
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Is the Designer a Black Hole?

Supernatural agents that exert natural effects are perfectly valid objects of scientific inquiry. Read More ›
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Once Again: Who Designed the Designer? 

“Some may ask, ‘What is the origin of the engineers? Therefore I don’t believe that this machine has been designed.’” Read More ›

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