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irreducibly complex systems

Omega=Centauri
Photo: Omega Centauri, X-ray:, by NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N.

Despite Fine-Tuning, Roger Penrose Is “Agnostic” About Intelligent Design

The slightest changes in almost any of the basic parameters of nature would have led to a universe without stable stars or without stars at all. Read More ›
The Design Inference
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An Argument from Ignorance? 

Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›
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For Males, an Engineering Marvel that Originates in the Brain

The male erection and ejaculatory reflex require multiple physiological processes to work together in an incredible coordinated manner. Read More ›
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Engineering Prowess of the Blood Clotting Cascade

“Evolution doesn’t perform particularly well when you need to make multiple co-dependent mutations,” says Dr. McLatchie. Read More ›
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Why the Blood Clotting Cascade Challenges Evolution

The coagulation cascade cannot evolve unless there is simultaneously a mechanism in hand for controlling it. Both would have to arise at the same time. Read More ›
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The Incredible Design of Vertebrate Blood Clotting

Recently, a commenter on the Center for Science and Culture’s Facebook page asked about a paper by the late biochemist Russell F. Doolittle. Read More ›
Ford Model T
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The Other Unsolved Problem of Evolution

"With all our advanced technology, we are not close to producing human-engineered self-replicating machines." Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
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Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity

The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate. Read More ›
bacterial flagellum
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Jonathan McLatchie on Classic Examples of Irreducibly Complex Systems

Dr. McLatchie explains the “likelihood ratio” of the evidence for irreducible complexity, a top-heavy ratio he says strongly supports a design hypothesis. Read More ›
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Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw. Read More ›

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