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Veritasium
Image source: Veritasium on YouTube (screenshot).

Spectacular Video on Molecular Machines and Cell Replication

Back in June I published a critique of a video posted on the popular YouTube science channel Veritasium. Read More ›
Bronchiolar_epithelium_3_-_SEM
Photo credit: Charles Daghlian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cilium and Intraflagellar Transport: More Irreducibly Complex than Ever

Another of Michael Behe’s molecular machines gets an update. The details are even more fascinating than originally described. Read More ›
water wire
Image: Water wire, by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, via Poul Petersen, Cornell University/EurekAlert!

Biophysicists Find Water Wires Are Biological Information Channels

Do the authors of the study think this is intelligently designed? They almost say so. Read More ›
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Foresight in Single Cells

There are things going on in cells that make sense only if a designing intelligence saw a need and planned for it in advance. Read More ›
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electric cell
Photo credit: University of Texas at San Antonio, via EurekAlert!

Welcome to the Electric Cell

Chemical signaling in the cell is fairly well known, but what about electrical signaling? Is a cell wired like an electrical network? Read More ›
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randomness
Photo credit: Nicu Buculei, via Flickr(cropped).

Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity

Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo. Read More ›
spermatogenesis
Photo: Spermatogenesis in action, by Nephron [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Importance of Centrobin in Sperm Development — Another Stumbling Block for Darwinism

“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications...” Read More ›
Indiana Jones hat
DNA
Photo: Hat from Indiana Jones movie, for sale at auction, by Deidre Willard (Indy's hat) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Hat Grab: Cells Take Extreme Measures to Rescue Their DNA

There’s a famous scene in an Indiana Jones movie where the hero barely makes it under a closing gate descending on him in an underground tunnel. Read More ›

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