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Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry

The ability to smell is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and sifting a torrent of input data quickly. Read More ›
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Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›
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Encore Performances in the Design of Life

News from Princeton discusses the work of Tom Smith and Bridgett vonHoldt, who have solved a “long-standing finch beak mystery.” The answer turned out to be Mendelian, not Darwinian. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again

The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life. Read More ›
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Humans Are Not Evolving into Mermaids

Darwinists assert that humans are undergoing natural selection, too. Therefore, evolution is a fact. Read More ›
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The Biggest Sea Animals: Whaling for Evolution

The largest animals that ever lived defy simple evolutionary stories. Read More ›
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Sea Turtles Swim Against the Darwin Current

Was there ever a more incongruous animal to imagine being a swimming champion? Read More ›
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Contradicting Darwinian Gradualism, Earliest Animals Show Complex Parental Behavior

Darwin himself realized that any kind of significant saltational change would imply a miracle-like intelligent intervention. Read More ›
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Answering Simplistic Presentations of Darwinism

Design advocates have the advantage of looking at both sides of the origins debate. Read More ›

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