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New Paper Examines How the Complexity of Glycan Structures Points to Intelligent Design

"This is, of course, important in order for a kidney cell to be and function as a kidney cell, a nerve cell to function as a nerve cell, and so forth." Read More ›
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Image: Topoisomerase II, by Discovery Institute.

On Intelligent Design, Dr. Dan Appears to Equivocate

In an ongoing dialogue with ID proponents, Rutgers University biologist Dan Stern Cardinale (aka Dr. Dan) has replied to us with a recent video. Read More ›
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Why Specified Complexity Is Key to Detecting Design

In plain English here is what specified complexity is and why it is able to detect design. Read More ›
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Yet Another Engineering Innovation from Cuttlefish 

It was never a given that when scientists looked deeper into life, they would find such exquisite designs; but they did. Read More ›
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Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure

The most important take away here is that specified complexity makes Shannon information and Kolmogorov information commensurable. Read More ›
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Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›
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Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Read More ›
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›
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Photo: Surface of Mars as seen from the Curiosity rover, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›
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Does T-urf13 Refute Irreducible Complexity? A Response to Arthur Hunt

Since 2007, Hunt has been claiming to have refuted Michael Behe’s thesis that irreducible complexity cannot arise by mindless evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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