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Compact Factory Optimizes Shape for Efficiency — A New Level of Intelligent Design in Life

A microbe was found to organize its electron transport machinery in a way that bends the membrane for optimum energy utilization. Read More ›
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Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from? Read More ›
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Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species

If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar? Read More ›
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Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses

It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2020: Upstairs into the Plague

Epidemiology, to which Darwinism is a “narrative gloss,” is an old and vigorous science. Read More ›
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The Evolutionary Psychologist Will See You Now

It needs no wisdom to stamp “ANIMAL” on the sufferer’s forehead, any more than it does to stamp “DISEASED.” Read More ›
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Darwinian Biologist Notices that Evolution Is Irrelevant to Medical Research

Fairy tales about survival of survivors contribute nothing to medical research, or to any other research. Read More ›
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Upstairs into the Plague

Every stock boy or housekeeper or nurse is doing more to fight this pandemic than all the politicians and talking-head science grifters and tenure-track professors. Read More ›
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BioEssays Editor: “‘Junk’ DNA… Full of Information!” Including Genome-Sized “Genomic Code”

How many times have we heard it claimed that the vast majority of the human genome is “junk” and therefore could not have been designed? Read More ›
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Science on the Rocks

Perhaps confidence in science can, at times, undermine science itself. How much real history has evolutionary storytelling obscured? Read More ›

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