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Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that." Read More ›
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How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›
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The Immaterial Genome: Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Read More ›
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The Math Behind the Immaterial Genome 

While not a formal defense, this analysis aims to give readers an intuitive grasp of the reasoning behind Richard Sternberg's Platonic perspective. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Theories

Is origin of life research going round in circles, like the proverbial snake in pursuit of its own tail? Read More ›
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Transcriptional Hierarchies Exhibit Recurring Design Logic and Challenge Evolution

A transcriptional hierarchy is a regulatory system in which genes are expressed in a specific ordered sequence. Read More ›
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Nobelist Thomas Cech on “Junk RNA” 

We can add this prominent biochemist to the ever-growing list of scientists who reject the “junk DNA” paradigm. Or, more pertinently, the junk RNA paradigm. Read More ›
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Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation

It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process. Read More ›
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The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it. Read More ›
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Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design” 

Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Read More ›

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