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Image: A map of Mars from 1962 showing purported "canals," by Aeronautical Chart And Information Center (U.S.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Canals on Mars: A Mistaken Design Inference

Any remaining doubts were settled by Mariner 4 which flew by Mars in 1965 and took pictures demonstrating that there were no canals. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Dawkins, by Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer versus Richard Dawkins: A Contest Made in Heaven?

Much of the response by Dawkins is defensive in tone, and shifts the discussion to one of ethics and philosophy with only a vague gesture towards science. Read More ›
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Expert: Without Intelligence, Organic Chemistry Leads to Degradation, Not Life

While amino acids can be produced in experiments or found on meteorites, they are often consumed by side reactions that create non-living tar. Read More ›
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Image credit: anokarina, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›
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Photo: Plant cells, by Hermann Schachner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cellulose Doesn’t Just Happen

The most abundant biopolymer on Earth requires a host of machines, genes, proteins, and accessories.  Read More ›
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Image credit: M. Mizera / PTA / IAU100, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Search for Habitable Planets Is a Design Detection Exercise

The extent of habitable space within all space can serve as a determinant of the plausibility of naturalism vs intelligent design. Read More ›
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Image: An exoplanet (artist’s rendering), by ESA/Hubble [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biominerals Could Predict Life on Exoplanets

One-third of minerals — chemical solids whose atoms are highly ordered — are created directly or indirectly by life forms. Read More ›
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Forensic Science: More Intelligent Design in Action

Kenneth Singer at Case Western Reserve trained an AI neural network on a million photos, and then on the brush strokes of four renditions of a flower. Read More ›
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Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, in the Cambridge University Library, by LegesRomanorum via Wikimedia Commons.

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›
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Image: Kepler-1649c (artist’s imagining), an “Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone,” by NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutte.

An Astronomer Considers the Origin of Life, with Sobering Results

In my opinion, only one tooth fairy is allowed per theory, and this one has at least four, making its irrelevance nearly guaranteed. Read More ›

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