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For Our Daily Bread, Thank Planetary Fine-Tuning

The existence of progenitor food crops (edible plants) on Earth was a necessary starting point for the availability of our food. Read More ›
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Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses

Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there. Read More ›
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Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Read More ›
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Blurring the Line Between Natural and Artificial

As technology mimics nature, at what point might future investigators be unsure about natural versus intelligent causes? Read More ›
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Getting to the Roots of Design

Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends. Read More ›
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Does T-urf13 Refute Irreducible Complexity? A Response to Arthur Hunt

Since 2007, Hunt has been claiming to have refuted Michael Behe’s thesis that irreducible complexity cannot arise by mindless evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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