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Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Don’t Have a Good Track Record

For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology. Read More ›
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Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans

A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind. Read More ›
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Sleep on It: Design in the Subconscious Brain

An international team reasoned there had to be a purpose for sleep. In one of the largest datasets ever collected, they believe they found two functions. Read More ›
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Design on Time — Paley’s Watch Was Inside Him

Watches are everywhere on the heath. Look up, look down, look inside; biology runs on time. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: On Designed Obsolescence

Dying actually begins at conception. From the moment of conception the directions for a person’s demise are passed on to every cell. Read More ›
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Cellular Self-Sacrifice — And an Allegory

No one knows how apoptosis came to be, although there are theories. Even the simplest of animals are programmed for it. Read More ›
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Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma 

What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: The Design of the Human Nervous System

Our skin and our insides are laced with an invisible, highly sophisticated, selective, neurological netting. Read More ›
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Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity

Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: To Make a Baby Requires Intelligent Design

Like a well-written, trillion-page novel, every micro-step, every macro-step, every twist and turn of our development follows a master plan. Read More ›

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