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#10 Story of 2022: Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution

Some discoveries might be surprising from an evolutionary perspective, but not necessarily from a perspective of intelligent design. Read More ›
topoisomerase
Image: Topoisomerase II, via Discovery Institute.

Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution

Some discoveries might be surprising from an evolutionary perspective, but not necessarily from a perspective of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Image: Hexokinase, an enzyme; the original uploader was TimVickers at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem

The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.” Read More ›
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Optimization: A Key Concept in Intelligent Design

Portraying neo-Darwinism’s mechanisms as optimization strategies is wishful thinking. Read More ›
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Jordan Peterson
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#7 Story of 2021: Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Read More ›
ATP Synthase
Image: A scene from "Molecular Machines — ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

Can New Proteins Evolve?

What enables a long chain of linked amino acids to perform highly specific molecular functions with machine-like precision? Read More ›
Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson
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Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Read More ›
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ribosome
Photo: "Ribosome Sculptures," New York Hall of Science, Ryan Somma via Flickr (cropped).

A Tweet Representing the Core Challenge We Face

Christian Landry is the Principal Investigator of a lab at Laval University in Quebec, doing really interesting work on cellular networks. Read More ›
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Marcos Eberlin: Unguided Origin of Life “Sold to Us,” but Its Assumptions Are “Insane”

It’s time now to “surrender to the data,” which as he argues, points to the works of foresight and planning in the origin of the first life. Read More ›
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Biophysicist Ken Dill: Protein Machines Are “Real Machines. That’s Not a Metaphor”

The implication of design, while no doubt unintended, is so powerful it almost doesn’t need to be spelled out. Read More ›

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