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Frances Arnold

How the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Harnessed Intelligent Design

There is one point of confusion in descriptions of this year’s prize winners. It’s the talk of “directed evolution.” Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: To Make a Baby Requires Intelligent Design

Like a well-written, trillion-page novel, every micro-step, every macro-step, every twist and turn of our development follows a master plan. Read More ›
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Answering Swamidass on Theistic Evolution: Sketchy Science, and a Swerve into Metaphysics

His choice of targets for criticism and for praise have a lot more to do with his particular agenda than the defects or merits of those whom he critiques. Read More ›
Joshua Swamidass

Swamidass: Cancer “Can Innovate” 

Cancer proves evolution only insofar as one forgets, or pretends not to know, what evolution is supposed to explain. Read More ›
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Does Cancer Disprove Intelligent Design?

Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”? Read More ›
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Biomimetics Moves STEM Education in an Intriguing Direction

An initiative by a major biomimetics lab to prepare students for careers in STEM introduces them to biological coding. Read More ›
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Giraffe Weekend: “You Cannot Simply Stretch out the Neck”

The giraffe is one of those all-star icons of evolution, familiar from textbook covers, that falls apart on closer inspection. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Snowshoe hares, via National Park Service.

Peppered Hares — An Emerging Evolutionary Icon

Some hares turn white in winter where it’s snowy, but remain brown in winter where it’s mild. What does that have to do with Darwinian evolution? Read More ›
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Beauty as Evidence for Intelligent Design

Beauty does not come from randomness. It is beauty, not ugliness that must be explained. Read More ›
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Image source: Radboud University, via YouTube (screen shot).

More Information Found in DNA: The Shape Code

Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands made “a remarkable discovery” about a protein named Polycomb that binds to DNA. Read More ›

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