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Clarity, Please: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

Four Caltech scientists taught “nature” to do the “unnatural” by first isolating a microbe that lives in the hot springs of Iceland. Read More ›
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Francesco Redi and the Founding of Modern Biology

Why was it so important that the flea should have come out of an egg and not simply from filth? Read More ›
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How We Bite with Apatite: The Wonders of a Hard Mineral

Explore the features of a remarkable mineral erupted from volcanoes that is found in our teeth. How did it get there? Read More ›
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Earth-Religion Mysticism Permeates Academia

The just cause of reasonably protecting nature has been co-opted into a radical international movement to subvert Western civilization. Read More ›
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Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World

Many biological “adaptations” may involve the use of innate abilities or the disruption of existing functions, rather than the creation of entirely new ones. Read More ›
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Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy 

I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›
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Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›
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The Story of Metals Points to Nature’s Foresight, Planning, Preparation

A confluence of conditions conspired to bring metals to Earth and make them accessible to humans. But can a Darwinian process take the credit? Read More ›
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Metals and Life — A Balancing Act

The complementary interaction between metals and life provides yet another example of our existence relying upon multiple levels of design. Read More ›

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