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No More Confusion: Three Categories of Biological Redundancy, Simplified

Rewriting the categories of biological redundancy in terms of function clarifies their purpose and contribution. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

What’s Wrong with Calling Intelligent Design “Anti-Evolution”?

The term “anti-evolution” has been used for decades, over and over, by untold numbers of defenders of Darwin and critics of the theory of intelligent design. Read More ›
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COVID-19
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Viruses, the Immune System, and Computer Systems

Virus detection in computer programs is primarily implemented using a signature-based technique. Read More ›
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RNA World: Repeated Downfalls, Repeated Resurrections

Alexander Oparin’s 1924 prediction that origin-of-life research would be solved “very, very soon” hasn’t quite turned out right. Read More ›
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dog
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Michael Medved Talks with Michael Behe About “Mere Evolution”

Insofar as we can track evolution as it has happened, e.g. in dog breeds, it consists overwhelming of breaking genes, the degradation of biological information. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Silver Chair

C. S. Lewis was an agnostic before he became a Christian, so he understood the spell of unbelief. Read More ›
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Paper by Biologist Antony Jose Seeks to Understand Heritability Beyond DNA

Fierce debates have occurred among intelligent design theorists — mostly behind the scenes — about the causal role of DNA. Read More ›
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I Disagree with David Klinghoffer, But It’s My Fault for the Confusion

Evolution is an implication — that is, an empirical consequence — of design. Read More ›
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PLOS Genetics Asks: “What Is a Mutation?”

What if there is genuine directionality in mutation? An important paper addresses the subject. Read More ›

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