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Photo: Discus throw, Louvre Museum / Public domain.

A Crucial Design Difference in Vertebrate Nerves

Consideration of the basic characteristics of nerve impulse propagation suggests that the speed of conduction in mammals is close to the maximum possible. Read More ›
fire juggler
fire juggler
Photo credit: Andrea Bertozzini on Unsplash.

For Fire, Nature Obliges Us with Rapid Reflexes

One area where very fast nerve conduction is vital is vision, more specifically, in keeping the eyes fixed on some object in the field of vision while in motion. Read More ›
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What if Our Muscles Were Less Powerful?

As every medical student comes to learn when first dissecting the human body at medical school, our limbs are almost entirely composed of muscles. Read More ›
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rowing
Photo credit: Steve Elliott / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).

Appreciating the Design of Human Muscles

It is likely that no further improvement in muscle power can be achieved by increasing the density of packing of the myosin motors. Read More ›
weightlifting
Photo credit: Victor Freitas via Unsplash.

For Fire and More, Humans Are Designed to Have Just the Right Strength

How is it that an ant appears proportionately so much stronger than a trained human weight lifter? Read More ›
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sperm
Photo: Sperm, by Bobjgalindo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›
Brian Miller Teaching at ID Educatin Day

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Were a Turning Point for Me

We have connected alumni with scientists who are conducting key research related to the design debate. Other graduates have become professors themselves. Read More ›
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Sunset in savannah of Africa with acacia trees, Safari in Serengeti of Tanzania
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Upright Walking and African Witch Doctors

In seeking to explain what makes humans exceptional, current evolutionists convert guesswork into a methodology, as humans did for long ages in the pre-scientific past. Read More ›
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In Cambrian Explosion Debate, ID Wins by Default

If this is the best answer evolutionists can come up with, it’s game over for Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Alberto D'Ottavi, via Flickr.

Digital Evolution and Bohemian Bugs

All software engineers have been burnt by those sneaky “bugs” that manage to get past the defenses. Read More ›

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