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Image: Atlantic salmon, by Timothy Knepp, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What’s “Natural”? Engineering Creates a Conundrum for Evolutionists

I do not know Dr. Merilä’s stance on human origins, but it is a safe bet that he denies intelligent design, and believes humans evolved from other animals. Read More ›
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What Is It Like to Be a Spider? 

A recent research article from Germany has made quite a splash in the popular media and raises some very interesting questions about animal minds. Read More ›
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Listen: Scott Turner on Evolutionary Biology’s Mechanistic Bias

Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Read More ›
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Patterns of Design in Human Life

Dr. Simmons sees clues of design in the processes of reproduction, in development, and in the many complex events in the lungs and vascular system that make childbirth possible. Read More ›
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Biologist Scott Turner: What Is Life? And Other Simple Questions

The picture of life that biologist Scott Turner sketches in his recent book is remarkable, and not easy to fully take aboard in your mind. Read More ›
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Naturalism and Self-Refutation

How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism? Read More ›
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#5 of Our Top Stories of 2017: Of Course You Aren’t Living in a Computer Simulation. Here’s Why.

Atheist astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes the idea seriously. Read More ›
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In Purpose and Desire, Scott Turner Argues that Cognition Is Foundational to Life

The evidence of purpose and design permeate life at every level, and this evidence presents ever increasing challenges to all theories of undirected evolution. Read More ›
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Scott Turner on Biology’s Hobson’s Choice – Time Running Out on Pre-publication Deal!

"The phrase is said to have originated with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), who offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in his stall nearest to the door or taking none at all." Read More ›
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Nature’s Amazing Machines — Denver Looks at the Marvels of “Natural Engineering”

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is running an excellent special exhibition featuring examples of the amazing engineering observed in biology. Read More ›

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