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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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Image at the top: From Episode 5 of Science Uprising, “Origin of Life: Intelligence Required.”

Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin

The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing! Read More ›
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James Tour
Image at the top: From Episode 5 of Science Uprising, “Origin of Life: Intelligence Required.”

Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin

The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing! Read More ›
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Chemist James Tour Is Scathing, Hilarious: “Show Me the Chemistry” of Abiogenesis. “It’s Not There.”

Professor Tour is without parallel. Truly, I’d love to hear from our materialist critics how they would answer any of this. Read More ›
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Happy New Year! #1 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›
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Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›
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Cognitive Conditioning and the Distortion of Reality

After following the discussion about evolution versus design for the past few decades, I have noticed a common trend. Read More ›
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James Tour
Photo: James Tour, speaking at University of Waterloo, via YouTube.

James Tour and the Challenge to Theistic Evolution from Synthetic Chemistry

A chemist like Tour, a very distinguished one, knows from a career’s worth of lab work how painstakingly difficult it is to synthesize molecules you want. Read More ›
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Image source: “The Workhorse of the Cell: Kinesin,” via Discovery Institute.

Nanotechnology Engineers Struggle to Match Cell Performance

Scientists are taking baby steps toward imitating what cells do all the time. Read More ›
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Image credit: University of Liverpool.

Cell Machines Maintain the Planet for Life

Machines packed in exquisite geometrical structures play a major role in cleaning the air and regulating carbon for the entire planet. Read More ›

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