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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 ›
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Image: Graphene, by AlexanderAlUS, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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
Photo: Amoeba proteus, by SmallRex, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ›
Challenge to Origin of Life
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Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Read More ›
Compton slide
Photo credit: John West.

Another Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist for Intelligent Design

Compton joins fellow Nobel Prize-winning physicists Charles Townes (UC Berkeley) and Brian Josephson (Cambridge University) who have likewise come out for ID. Read More ›
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Credit: All photos by John West.

New 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 ›
Pacific salmon
Photo credit: Milton Love, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation

Three main things must occur for the young salmon, called a smolt, to prepare for life in the salty ocean. Read More ›

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