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Photo: "Crystals Grown in Space," by Redwire, via NASA.

Origins, Destiny, and Intelligent Design

Apart from an intelligent designer, “…we are forced to believe that nucleic acids eventually acquire awareness of their own existence when they are mixed.” Read More ›
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Modern DNA structure in microscope with neon color detail
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New Study: ERVs, Once Proclaimed as Ultimate Genetic “Junk,” Are Vital for Development

Endogenous retroviruses were at one time iconic for evolution activists. The debate has progressed a lot since then. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Michel Villeneuve, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Wheelbarrows, Watches, and Designers: More on Sean Carroll

Describing luxury mechanical watches as “marvels of engineering and design” is not a religiously motivated claim. Read More ›
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Why a Multiverse Doesn’t Refute Fine-Tuning

With the multiverse hypothesis, a key supposition is that the physical parameters within alternative universes somehow vary over an undefined range. Read More ›
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Body health and balance.
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How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive

Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Read More ›
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Watch: Cellular High Tech and Darwin’s Outdated Theory

Evolutionists still insist that Darwin’s idea is robust. Why the special pleading? Watch “How High-Tech in Your Cells Points to God” for a clue. Read More ›
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For Roe’s Anniversary, Renew Your Awe of Reproduction

How do those cells “know” what to become? Where does the information reside that shapes a human in the womb? Read More ›
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New Video: “How Your Smartphone Points to God”

If evolution is defined as an unguided process, then inserting “God used” it into the sentence doesn’t affect the argument of this little video at all. Read More ›
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Beyond Cosmic Fine-Tuning: Intelligent Design in the Laws of Nature

There is only one way to explain why our universe is governed by such simple and elegant laws that support life. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology).

Beyond Fine-Tuning: Why the Laws of Nature Indicate Design

The dream of finding a unique, logically necessary “theory of everything” has failed, which leaves an intriguing question: Why these specific laws? Read More ›

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