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Michael Denton

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Our Lush World: Considering the Problem of Beauty

“If, on the other hand, one views nature as ingenious artwork that cannot be reduced to the question of utility alone, these problems disappear.” Read More ›
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Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On: A Seminal Contribution to Biology

It makes sense to think that the T3SS didn’t evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS.  Read More ›
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Epigenetics and the Arts Lover

Here is yet another clue about how we are both spiritual and physical beings. The two realms are connected in mysterious and remarkable ways. Read More ›
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Behe’s Breakthrough: Memories of Darwin’s Black Box

The cover artist was working on a bit of extra creativity, showing Behe playing poker with Charles Darwin, and holding the winning cards. Read More ›
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Glowing flagellar motor at the base of a bacterial flagellum visualizing the rotary motion and its energy source
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Irreducible Behe: The Shy Revolutionary Who Took Down Darwin

The cell for Darwin was a black box. He was, in that sense, blind — and the blindness was the condition in which he formulated his theory. Read More ›
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Fashion and Faith in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

This brings us, at last, to the remaining “cyclic” proposal, that of Roger Penrose, which is perhaps the most quixotic of all. Read More ›
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Epigenetics and the Architect: New Book Unveils Design at Biology’s Frontier

Much of the information employed to build biological form is situated in epigenetic architecture beyond the reach of random genetic mutations. Read More ›
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Michael Denton’s Work Shows ETs in UFOs Would Not Exist in a Purposeless Universe

Fire is a central part of human existence, and it’s a necessary requirement for building technology, whether primitive or complex. Read More ›
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For Extraterrestrial Life, All Credit to a Creator

As Casey Luskin reminds us, technology-using aliens would — by the intent of the cosmic design — need to live on a planet like ours with a physiology like ours. Read More ›
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Darwinists Afflicted by Fear of Validating Outsiders

Fear of validating opposition to materialism diminishes the scholarship of some scientific publications. Their authors need to get a grip. Read More ›

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