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Irreducible Complexity

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Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Read More ›
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Sex: A Masterpiece of Intelligent Design

“If any of these aspects…were different or non-existent, then sexual reproduction couldn’t take place." Read More ›
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Sexual Reproduction: Engineered for Success

I continue a three-part discussion with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie on why sex is the queen of problems for evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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Sex: A Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

Sexual reproduction is a seeming waste of resources producing little or no short-term advantages. Read More ›
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No. 9 Story for 2025: Biological Foresight Wins Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 2025 was awarded to three immunologists who discovered regulatory T cells. Read More ›
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Creepy Crawly Complexity: Kate Kavanaugh on the Intelligent Design of Insects

Far from being mere nuisances, these creatures function as tiny engineers that elegantly solve complex problems to sustain global ecosystems. Read More ›
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Exploded 3D visualization of a bacterial flagellum motor — molecular rotor proteins, membrane layers, proton flow illustrated
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Vindicated: Three Dover-Related Predictions of Intelligent Design

The design of the bacterial flagellum, mocked at Dover, is supported in time for the trial's anniversary by research from three Harvard physicists. Read More ›
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 4, “The Dover Ruling Refuted Intelligent Design”

Expert witnesses like biochemist Michael Behe and microbiologist Scott Minnich testified about how irreducible complexity makes a positive case for design. Read More ›
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Scientist Roundtable: Examples of Intelligent Design in the Human Body

There are also rigorous scientific methods to help us identify the hallmarks of design. Read More ›
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In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Read More ›

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