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Image credit: Édouard Manet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fruit Is Designed for Life

This type of multi-purpose optimization speaks more of intelligent foresight and design than random adaptation.  Read More ›
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Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.

Omega-3 Nutrition Pioneer Tells How He Saw Irreducible Complexity in Cells 40 Years Ago

Jorn Dyerberg, the Danish biologist, talks with physicist Brian Miller about finding irreducible complexity in cells. Read More ›
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Photo: Mount St. Helens, 1982, by Lyn Topinka, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event. Read More ›
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fish oil capsules
Photo: Fish oil capsules, by Marco Almbauer / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Famed Biologist Jørn Dyerberg Explains His Turn to Intelligent Design

If, like me, you’ve got a bottle of fish oil capsules in your refrigerator as a health supplement, you can thank Dr. Dyerberg. Read More ›
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A Trojan Horse for Euthanasia? No

When my mother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease and the sharp bodily decline that hits those in their late 90s, my wife and I brought her home for care. Read More ›
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Here’s How to Tell if Scientists Are Exaggerating

Here’s the simple test to tell if scientists are exaggerating wildly. Let’s call it: “The Principle of Comparative Difficulty.” Read More ›

Omega-3 Nutrition Pioneer Tells How He Saw Irreducible Complexity in Cells 40 Years Ago

It wasn’t until Jorn Dyerberg encountered ID researchers like Michael Behe that he gave it that name. Read More ›
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Golden Rice grain compared to white rice grain in screenhouse of Golden Rice plants.

Opposing “Golden Rice” Is Anti-Human

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if half a million destitute children could be saved each year from blindness or death from Vitamin A deficiency? Read More ›

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