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Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function

In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes. Read More ›
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The Formation of Our Digits Points to a Process with Foresight

Our digits are sculpted from a paddle-like structure in the embryo through the process of apoptosis. Read More ›
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Wrap Your Mind Around the Synapse — Just Try

The method neurons use to transfer signals seems like a kludge. But it works astonishingly fast and efficiently. Read More ›
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The Elegant Spindle Assembly Checkpoint

Without this exquisitely engineered system, the cell risks distributing an uneven number of chromosomes to the daughter cells. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: A Truly Fantastic Voyage!

The old movie mostly dealt with the brain, lung, heart, blood vessels (all at the tissue level) and a few scattered cells. Read More ›
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Video: Life Can’t Exist Without Repair Mechanisms, and That’s a Problem for Origin-of-Life Theories

Following the replication of DNA, a daily barrage of DNA damage occurs during normal operating conditions. Read More ›
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An Astonishing Life-Friendly Coincidence: The Properties of the Nonmetal Atoms

It is well established that there are far more ways in which the universe might have been that are non-conducive to life than there are life-friendly ways. Read More ›
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Ann Gauger on EWTN, and Intelligent Design’s Universality

I find this openness and lack of dogmatism uplifting, and an indicator that ID is trying to follow the evidence. Read More ›
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Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis 

Leading the charge against the model is — of all people — one of Dawkins’s own doctoral examiners at Oxford, the renowned physiologist Denis Noble. Read More ›
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I Grew Up with Intelligent Design Videos — Let’s Make More!

The scientific rigor and common sense in the CSC videos I watched as a child taught me to recognize media hype about evolution for what it is. Read More ›

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