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Burgess: Design of Human Body Greatly Surpasses Human Engineering

Embracing the evolutionary narrative requires one to abandon one’s belief in mathematics. Read More ›
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Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Read More ›
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Could Genetic Mutations Be Non-Random? New Evidence for Mutational Bias

The researchers examined the emergence of a mutation in the human APOL1 gene that confers protection from African sleeping sickness. Read More ›
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4-D Nucleome Mapping Opens New Vision of Dynamic DNA Architecture

DNA is not a static sequence to read; it is a code that builds and operates its own factory. Read More ›
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Systems Biology and Intelligent Design: A Natural Fit

My optimism comes from how powerfully top-down design has succeeded in giving us the complex systems of the modern world. Read More ›
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 3, “Intelligent Design Has No Peer-Reviewed Publications”

Unfortunately, Judge Jones got this simple question exactly wrong, giving life to a myth. This alone speaks volumes about his ruling. Read More ›
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New Paper: Giraffe Fossil Record Defies Neo-Darwinism

Results have been obtained in definite contrast to the expectations of the neo-Darwinian theory. Read More ›
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Book Excerpt: Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?

Evolutionism is really more of a paradigm or methodology than a theory. For its supporters, the important thing is that it was due to natural causes. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Orphan Foe: A Gene Army Comes for Darwinism

Evolutionary theory led evolutionists to expect these genes to be rare. As it turns out, they aren’t. Read More ›
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Two Peer-Reviewed Papers Apply Behe’s “Darwin Devolves” Thesis to Cancer 

One day in the mid 2010s, Ann Gauger and I received a message that an ID-friendly scientist was in town and wanted to meet us. Read More ›

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