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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greeks, Benjamin Wiker, compounds, elements, gold, human vision, hydrogen, ions, Jonathan Witt, matter, oxygen, reactions, sun, Svante Arrhenius, The Privileged Planet, water, William Nicholson}

Weird Water and Its Role in the Rise of Chemistry

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 10, 2024

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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Water has been crucial in the transition from alchemy to the science of chemistry. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon-based life, Charles Tanford, ecosystem, electronegativity, elegance, Freeman Dyson, George Wald, glaciers, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, Lawrence J. Henderson, Linus Pauling, metabolism, mitochondria, nitrogen, nucleus, ocean, oxygen, parsimony, primer, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water}

Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2024

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.” Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, Asa Gray, athletes, blood, blood pressure, blood vessels, calcium, carbon dioxide, Charles Darwin, circulatory system, Communications Biology, Darwin’s Bluff, embryo, evolution, glucose, great apes, hard problems, heart, heart rate, humans, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, natural selection, oxygen, placenta, potassium, Robert Shedinger, selective pressure, Steve Laufmann, temperature, Your Designed Body}

Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism

_{Howard Glicksman
July 30, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Technology

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At complete rest, for your organs and tissues to work properly, your heart must pump out about five liters of blood per minute. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain damage, brains, circulation, death, emergency room, Lucid Dying, Nature (journal), neuroscience, nutrients, oxygen, oxygenation, pigs, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Yale University}

Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 29, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, air, atmosphere, atmospheric gases, carbon dioxide, cellular life, David Coppedge, earth, food, habitability, magnetic field, Mars, oxygen, Saturn, solar radiation, solar system, sun, terraforming, Titan, water}

Challenges to Terraforming Mars Highlight the Intelligent Design of Earth

_{Eric Hedin
July 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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A short list of habitability requirements for humans includes the basics of air, water, and food. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, atmosphere, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Ediacaran, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Hallucigenia, Nature Geoscience, Neoproterozoic Era, oxygen, oxygenation}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

_{Günter Bechly
July 26, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 24, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, agnostics, blood, capillaries, cells, Charles Tanford, circulation, criminology, earth, elements, endothermy, evaporation, extraterrestrial intelligence, fitness, fluids, gas, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, liquid, microbiology, oxygen, skin, solid, solvents, temperature, The Wonder of Water, tissues, viscosity, water}

In the Case of Water, an Inference to Intelligent Design Is Independent of Any Religious Claim

_{Michael Denton
July 24, 2024

Biochemistry, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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In this article I will explain why, as someone who is agnostic about many religious claims, I find the inference to intelligent design impossible to refuse. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
July 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biosphere, copper, insulin, intentionality, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, life, Newtonian mechanics, oxygen, powers ontology, purpose, redox chain, science of purpose, thermodynamics}

Illuminating the Power of Life

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That which is unique to life alone, which offers the only valid explanation of irreducible complexity, is the manifestation of goal-directed functional logic. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
June 27, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, Cell (journal), cell membrane, embryo, Evolution News, father, glycolysis, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, mother, newborn, oxygen, placenta, potassium, sodium, Steve Laufmann, The Scientist, University of Cambridge, uterus, Your Designed Body, zygote}

Let’s Think About a Zygote Like an Engineer

_{Howard Glicksman
June 27, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Actually, life is a series of millions of hard problems that have to be solved all the time, or else. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, ATP, ATP synthase, carboxyl, cellular respiration, cytochrome c, electrons, hydrogen, intermembrane space, ligands, Michael Denton, mitochondrial membrane, nerve impulses, nitrogen, oxygen, periodic table of elements, protein complexes, transition metals, universe}

Design of the Elements Points to a Theistic Universe

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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An innumerable number of features of the natural world show evidence of purpose and intent. Read More ›