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New Book, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Answers Key Questions on Intelligent Design

"If anyone thinks that the study of science and faith should be disparate disciplines, here are more than 656 reasons why they’re wrong." Read More ›
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The Stop Lights in the Cell

Even a cell needs laws and enforcers. When the enforcers don’t do their jobs, crime increases in cities and in cells. Read More ›
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Meyer in the Jerusalem Post: Farewell to the Purposeless Cosmos

From living in South Africa for more than four years, I got a good sense of African perspectives on atheism. Read More ›
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The Multiverse Is Some Scientists’ “God of the Gaps”

This brand of scientific ideology requires a “God of the gaps” — Eugene Koonin’s “present model” — to explain away mysteries like the origin of life. Read More ›
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An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›
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What the Darwin Lobby and the Transgender Lobby Have in Common

Some ideologies (such as Darwinism) wrap themselves in the mantle of science even though they lack — or are inconsistent with — the evidence. Read More ›
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Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed

The once seemingly humble cilium is actually even more irreducibly complex than Dr. Behe suggested in his first book. Read More ›
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New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum

This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years. Read More ›
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Cilium and Intraflagellar Transport: More Irreducibly Complex than Ever

Another of Michael Behe’s molecular machines gets an update. The details are even more fascinating than originally described. Read More ›
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Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Read More ›

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