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NY Times Aside, “Babies Are Obviously Conscious,” Says Dr. Egnor

If there an “active scientific debate” about it, then could it really be that the answer isn’t so clear? Read More ›
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Get a Grip: “Claude” Isn’t a Person

"The [AI] model spoke about destroying itself, provoking an emotional reaction of compassion and concern from the group." Read More ›
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Randomness by Design: A Derivative Idea, and a Fundamental One

My Christian faith was indispensable here. From the vantage of naturalism or materialism, randomness is fundamental. Read More ›
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Behe’s Bombshell, Thirty Years Later

Back in the 1990s, scientists were just starting to discover that virtually all cellular processes were powered by molecular machines. Read More ›
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Glowing flagellar motor at the base of a bacterial flagellum visualizing the rotary motion and its energy source
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Irreducible Behe: The Shy Revolutionary Who Took Down Darwin

The cell for Darwin was a black box. He was, in that sense, blind — and the blindness was the condition in which he formulated his theory. Read More ›
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“SpudCell”: More Evidence that Origin of Life Requires Intelligent Design

This is most curious. SpudCell’s creators are boasting that it has “a much smaller genome” than any other known living cell. Read More ›
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We Created Life! Er, Wait a Minute…

A synthetic cell lineage contrived by humans will (necessarily) need to copy what Nature has already done, or fail. Read More ›
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The Zygote Code and Other Mysteries

As development progresses, each cell is directed to unique use of its DNA files by the epigenetic system, which sits above the DNA. Read More ›
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Cambrian Explosion Remains the Gift that Keeps on Giving

These representative papers show that the Cambrian Explosion remains a huge enigma for evolutionists. Read More ›
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The Evolutionary Mystery of the Platypus

The bill of the platypus is “the most remarkable organ for sensory perception found in the animal kingdom.” Read More ›

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