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This Memorial Day Weekend, Consider Putting Design and Human Dignity into Action

The universe was woven with us in mind. This is not a statement of species chauvinism. It’s a call to action. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Feynman in 1984, © Tamiko Thiel (OTRS communication from photographer) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Cosmic Fine-Tuning Would Be Hard to Believe if It Weren’t True

The dual wave and particulate aspects of light, essential to our ability to see, and so much else, must all be just right to within insanely precise parameters. Read More ›
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Denton: Science on Venus?

NASA has announced a scheme to fly manned airships in the upper atmosphere of the otherwise “hellish” planet. Read More ›
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Michael Denton’s Intellectual Evolution

“Life’s order,” say biologist Mike Denton, “is written into the very fabric of reality itself. It’s not an add-in. It’s in there from the very beginning.” Read More ›

Watch: Biologist Michael Denton on Photosynthesis and Planetary Design

To fully grasp Denton’s thesis is to wipe clean the smear of dull complacency that materialism tirelessly spreads. Read More ›
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Parker Solar Probe Sweeps Past Venus, as Denton Renews Our Wonder About the Sun

Our relationship to this most familiar star is something that, as light-dependent aerobes, we often blithely take for granted. Read More ›
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New Study Supports Michael Denton’s Structuralist View

The way an embryo develops shows a method of patterning that makes use of physical processes as if they conform to a predetermined plan. Read More ›
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Inside the Machine Room of the Nucleus

The nucleus is a beehive of activity, where information is not just stored but processed, protected, transcribed, and duplicated by highly complex machines. Read More ›
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Beating the Summer Heat — Thanks to Human Exceptionalism

It’s hot out. Be glad that you’re a human being, and not some other kind of mammal. Read More ›
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Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser (http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1737a/) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Oumuamua, Space Visitor, Shows Intelligent Design at Work

The discovery of ETs would not undermine the case for the design of terrestrial life one bit. The situation for Darwinists is very different. Read More ›

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