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Image: Complex III from S. cerevisiae (PDB 6HU9), by Emily Reeves.

The Nanoscale Engineering of Complex III

If I put on my reverse-engineering hat, this enzyme looks like the work of a designer who deeply understood electrochemistry and quantum tunneling. Read More ›
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Are We at Another Lemaître Moment? Cosmological Evidence Suggests So

The universe is not large in spite of us — it is large, in part, because of what it takes to produce us. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: A Physician Reads the Designer’s Signature

The audience will see that everything related to our presence on this planet could not have happened by accident. It’s quite a story. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Denton, via Discovery Institute/YouTube (screenshot).

Denton: Properties of Oxygen, Water, Light Were “Envisaged” for Us at the Very Beginning

Biologist Michael Denton takes a long view — the longest view imaginable in our universe. Read More ›
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A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Read More ›
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Here We Go Again: For Complex Life, Just Add Fertilizer

You may have all the ingredients you want, in the right quantities, but without a builder, nothing functionally complex will emerge. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Paramanu Sarkar, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Doctor’s Diary: Have We Overlooked Common Sense?

Take bats, for example. Many types eat upside down, yet they flip to eliminate wastes. Read More ›
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Photo: Opabinia regalis, by Han Zeng, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion

The technical paper acknowledges that this level of oxygenation, if sustained, would indeed “challenge the view” that oxygen was a trigger for animal evolution. Read More ›
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What the Forces of Nature Can Do — And What They Can’t

Our universe not only has limited physical resources, but also informational limits, and the only way to overcome these is by intelligent design. Read More ›
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Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI
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Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›

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