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Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design, with Michael Kent

Technological advances have led to the discovery of planets outside our solar system, with news heralding the discovery of many “earth-like” planets. Read More ›
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Fascinating Hypothesis from Weinstein: Repetitive “Junk” DNA Stores Integer Variables

This opens up a world of potential functions for repetitive DNA that open-minded scientists can consider. Read More ›
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4-D Nucleome Mapping Opens New Vision of Dynamic DNA Architecture

DNA is not a static sequence to read; it is a code that builds and operates its own factory. Read More ›
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DNA sequencing result, visualisation. Researches in genetics
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Systems Biology and Intelligent Design: A Natural Fit

My optimism comes from how powerfully top-down design has succeeded in giving us the complex systems of the modern world. Read More ›
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No. 5 Story for 2025: Richard Dawkins Says Intelligent Design Is a Scientific Hypothesis

"I think that the hypothesis of theism is the most exciting scientific hypothesis you could possibly hold." Read More ›
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Casey Luskin on the Rising Tide of Intelligent Design Research

Any scientific theory for the origin of life and the universe is only as strong as its research program. For intelligent design, this is good news. 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. 10, “The Intelligent Design Movement Died After Dover”

In December 2005, Judge John E. Jones ruled that intelligent design is not science, but religion. Critics predicted this would mean the end of the ID movement. Read More ›
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Horse and Zebra Intently Staring at Each Other on Black Background
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The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned. Read More ›
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A Fake Headline, and a Real One, About DNA

Did you get that? “Cake,” I believe, is supposed to mean life. So obviously on earth we have cake. Read More ›

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