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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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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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Luskin: Alien Life Would Challenge Evolution, Not Religion

A theme in social media chatter has been that the disclosure will challenge religious beliefs, and that it may be a “psyop” directed against Christian faith. Read More ›
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What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish?

According to celebrity scientific atheist Neil deGrass Tyson, ETs would look nothing like us, because there is no reason they would. Read More ›
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Dispatch from Dallas: Documentary Premieres Where It All Started

There is something fitting, even story-like, about Meyer's presence at the Dallas premiere. Read More ›

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