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E. coli
innovate
Photo: E. coli bacteria, by NIAID [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.

How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy

ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

What Are the Top Scientific Problems with Evolution?

No sane person believes that nothing changes over time, or that the cosmos, technology, and culture have no history. Read More ›
Fireworks over Seattle
fireworks
Photo credit: Shannon Kringen from Seattle [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2021: Cambrian Explosion Goes Nuclear

Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
Metrosideros
Photo: Metrosideros polymorpha, Kalapana, Hawaii, by Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Non-Darwinian Adaptive Radiation Proposed

Is it possible that adaptive radiation is falling out of the Darwin trophy cabinet? A new proposal sounds amenable to intelligent design. Read More ›
Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin’s statue, Natural History Museum, by http://www.cgpgrey.com [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment

If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it. Read More ›
Darwin Tree
Image: Darwin’s Tree (1837), a sketch from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species, via Wikimedia Commons.

Does Tree-Like Data Refute Intelligent Design?

Computer scientist Winston Ewert applied the concept of “common design” to propose a “dependency graph” model of organismal relationships. Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›
Tropidogyne pentaptera
Photo: Tropidogyne pentaptera, a mid Cretaceous flower from Burmese amber, by Oregon State University (license CC BY-SA 2.0), via Flickr.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›
zebrafish
Image: A zebrafish, by yourgenome, via Flickr.

Revealing Darrel Falk’s Overstatements about Limb Bones in Fish Fins

The interpretation of the results as showing “latent” genetic capabilities has teleological overtones that are compatible with intelligent design. Read More ›

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