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Emily Reeves: How to Study Biology with Systems Engineering Principles

Traditional methods in biology have proven insufficient for understanding and accurately predicting complex biological systems. Why? Read More ›
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The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design

One can hardly appeal to natural selection to account for the origins of DNA replication without assuming the existence of the thing one seeks to explain. Read More ›
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Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef

The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may. Read More ›
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Socrates in the City: James Tour on Nanotech

Tour explains some of the inventions coming out of his Rice University lab, including molecular cars and astonishing graphene technologies. Read More ›
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Great Christmas Gift — Proofs of God Translates Design Arguments for Young Students, Teenagers

Sometimes the best way to learn is when you’re having fun and don’t even realize that you’re learning. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: Nanotech, Origin of Life, and Area 51

Dr. Miller offers an illustrative story: Imagine that what looks for all the world like an alien spaceship is discovered in the desert. Read More ›
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Inference Article Demonstrates Implausibility of Natural Processes for Explaining the Origin of Life

The piece is highly technical and mathematical, but the basic argument can be quickly summarized with only a marginal loss of technical accuracy.   Read More ›
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Hey, Paul Davies — Your ID Is Showing

No better advertisements for intelligent design exist than works written by establishment scientists that unintentionally make design arguments. Read More ›
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Dallas Conference Youth Track — Intelligent Design for Kids

The audience will learn, in a fun, humorous, interactive, and age-appropriate way, what intelligent design encompasses and what it doesn’t. Read More ›
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Whales, Bees, and Viruses: Intelligent Design from Biggest to Smallest 

What’s bigger than a blue whale? Smaller than a virus? At the extremes and everywhere in between, life shows ingenious design. Read More ›

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