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Photo credit: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biological Codes, and More: Evolutionists Scramble for an Adequate Cause

Much of the information essential to cellular function isn’t editable via random genetic mutations in DNA and is thus inaccessible to the Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA; JAXA.

What Can Science Tell Us About the Existence of God?

The worldview of materialism is increasingly at odds with the latest scientific discoveries of the last hundred years. Read More ›
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Image credit: Nathan Jacobson.

Introducing a New Design, and a New Name

Conjoining science with culture, while it is the CSC’s calling card, is not our invention. Read More ›
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In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet 

You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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Dawkins Is Knocked “Sideways with Wonder” by Cell’s Design

Yes, he doesn't call it "intelligent design," of course, and I'm confident he would deny the cell is designed. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design Has Implications for Genome Editing

Biology is a lavish display of sophisticated designs exceeding all human engineering to date. Read More ›
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How Do We Decide if Something Is Well Designed or Poorly Designed?

Erika DeBenedictis's statement that “organisms are absolutely the most sophisticated machines we know of” is supported by overwhelming evidence. Read More ›
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Photo: Ivan Ilić, a concert pianist, by Tibor BBB [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!

Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues. Read More ›
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Image: An oocyte, from “Conception to birth — visualized,” via YouTube (screen shot).

Why Evolution and Reproduction Are Unnatural

Reproduction is the most fundamental characteristic of life. We see it happen everywhere, so we may feel there is nothing “unnatural” about it.  Read More ›
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Computer Software Sheds Light on Human and Chimp DNA Similarity

Recently I had the opportunity to hear Discovery Institute’s Stephen Meyer provide an update on the progress and current state of the theory of intelligent design. Read More ›

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