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Photo: Venus flytrap, by Noah Elhardt, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: A Waiting Time Problem for Feathers

Wherever you look in the history of life you stumble upon overwhelming evidence for design. Read More ›
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Photo: Arabidopsis thaliana, © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2022: “Non-Random” Mutations

The study was able to directly measure mutations after they occurred in the plant but before mutations could have been affected by natural selection. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: Engineering in Biology, and THE Engineer

If living systems were deliberately engineered, how good an engineer was the one behind those living systems? Read More ›
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Photo: Arabidopsis thaliana, © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.

New Study in Nature Showing “Non-Random” Mutation Spells Trouble for Neo-Darwinism

The study was able to directly measure mutations after they occurred in the plant but before mutations could have been affected by natural selection. Read More ›
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Plant Biologist: “Mutation Is Very Non-Random”

Many people I know in the ID community are strongly interested in rethinking mutation, understanding it as a designed or regulated process. Read More ›
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How Has Darwinism Negatively Impacted Society?

The late Morris Goodman of Wayne State University argued that humans are “only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes.” Read More ›
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Photo: Francis Collins, by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Francis Collins, Eye Evolution, and Blind Faith

Instead of simply accepting the neo-Darwinian explanation of the eye on faith, Casey Luskin examines the evidence. Read More ›
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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 ›
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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Jonathan Wells Gives “Top Scientific Problems with Evolution”

Darwin anticipated “innumerable transitions” in the fossil record, but such a rainbow of transitional forms has never been found. Read More ›

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