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Humans as “Beloved”: A Signature of Intelligent Design

A few minor shifts in how light interacts with matter and our sense of sight would be dulled to most of the visual beauty that we most appreciate in nature. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Denton, via Discovery Institute/YouTube (screenshot).

Denton: Properties of Oxygen, Water, Light Were “Envisaged” for Us at the Very Beginning

Biologist Michael Denton takes a long view — the longest view imaginable in our universe. Read More ›
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Brian Miller on Emotional Intelligence in Science, Scientific Tensions, and More

The context is when students with a religious background enter the sciences at the undergraduate or graduate level. Read More ›
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Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Read More ›
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A Thing of Beauty — The Electromagnetic Force 

As a physicist and someone with a vested interest in being alive, I stand positively in awe of the deeply designed nature of the electromagnetic force. Read More ›
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Photo: Aulacopleura koninckii, by Zavadluk, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ancient Eyes, Modern Design: The Remarkable Vision of Trilobites

Does this discovery suggest that the principles of compound vision emerged nearly half a billion years ago as the authors concluded? Read More ›
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We Are Children of Light and Water: Dr. Michael Denton

“In this vast range, there’s only one…infinitesimally small band which has the right energy for photosynthesis,” a prerequisite for human life. Coincidence? Read More ›
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Photo: Octocorallia, by Alexander Vasenin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Let There Be Bioluminescence

Biological light switched on in the Cambrian — for what reason, evolutionists are not sure. It just happened, like all the other natural miracles. Read More ›
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Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense

We all know that plants respond to stimuli, such as flowers opening with the sun or growing toward light. Read More ›
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Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design

Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life. Read More ›

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