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International Space Station
science
Photo: International Space Station, by NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Experimental Science and Its Implications for Faith

A nice thing about being young is that you have no idea how much you do not know. Read More ›
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Lehigh
Photo: Lehigh University campus, by Joseph Giansante '76 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 3

Perhaps the evidence for the vast scope of Darwin’s theory really isn’t as strong as biologists over the years have been telling each other. Read More ›
Manfred Eigen
catastrophe error
Photo: Manfred Eigen (second from the right) met with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1983, by Rob Croes / Anefo [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen’s Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show

We are nearing a half-century since Eigen wrote about this paradox, and it “still challenges theoretical biologists.” Read More ›
Sputnik 1
chance
Photo: A reproduction of Sputnik 1, an artificial satellite, National Air and Space Museum, by NSSDC, NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Crying “Chance, Chance” When There Is No Chance

Note the artfully deployed passive voice. One-way traffic “was finally counteracted by the launch of the first artificial satellites.” Who counteracted it? Read More ›
body design
intelligent design
Photo credit: Vidar Nordli-Mathisen via Unsplash.

Appreciate Your (Un-Evolved) Body

Things you probably didn’t even know about should arouse awe as we go about our tasks each day, and sleep each night. Read More ›
puffin
anomalies
Photo: Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), by Sergio Martínez-Nebreda and Paula Medina-García/University of Bristol, via EurekAlert!

A Theory in Crisis: Darwinian Anomalies Accumulate

Darwin Day is just a week from today! To help celebrate, here are a few recent findings that contradict Darwinism. Read More ›
Behe Mac
Photo: Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe at the launch of Discovery Institute-Mackenzie at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017.

Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves — When You’re Ready to Think for Yourself

The idea that scientists are like tribal elders, to be respected and never questioned, much less smirked at (God forbid), is one possible perspective. Read More ›
SaccharomycescerevisiaeSEM
Photo: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional

ID proponents have long predicted that functions would be uncovered for such non-coding DNA. Read More ›
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Photo: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, by Rainis Venta [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast

All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm. Read More ›
Grand Prismatic Spring
epigenetics
Photo: Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, by Brocken Inaglory [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL].

Genetics and Epigenetics — New Problems for Darwinism

Scientists watched microbes inherit extreme acid resistance in Yellowstone hot springs not through genetics, but through epigenetics. Read More ›

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