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From Jacques Monod, a Grim Message for Humanity

Biology was becoming a "real" science, melded with chemistry into the new discipline of biochemistry. At last life was reducible to molecular interactions. Read More ›
Drosophila melanogaster
Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, by Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin

Don’t swat too quickly! There’s more awe in that little fly than might be apparent from  a cursory glance. Read More ›
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Credit: All photos by John West.

No. 7 Story of 2023: Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Read More ›
Roger Penrose
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More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe. Read More ›
Omega=Centauri
Photo: Omega Centauri, X-ray:, by NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N.

Despite Fine-Tuning, Roger Penrose Is “Agnostic” About Intelligent Design

The slightest changes in almost any of the basic parameters of nature would have led to a universe without stable stars or without stars at all. Read More ›
Graphen
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I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene

Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape. Read More ›
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Live Not by Lies: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

When one person stands up to lies or oppression, others can become emboldened to do the same. Read More ›
Nobel Prize
Photo: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, by Adam Baker, via Flickr (cropped).

Physicalism Versus the Practice of Science

The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused. Read More ›
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Cellular Cognition? So Much for Darwinism!

Following up in considering Daniel Nicholson’s challenge to the machine concept of the cell, I will examine intracellular transport and cellular behavior. Read More ›
Amoeba proteus
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Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism

The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.” Read More ›

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