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Did Nathan Lents Refute Design?

Today our knowledge of the eye’s design is far more detailed. Particularly striking are the incredible mechanisms at the molecular level. Read More ›
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The Eye: A Classic Example of Natural Design

Even Charles Darwin, after publishing his theory of evolution, privately admitted “The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder.” Read More ›
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The Mystery of Blindsight Helps Us Understand the Mind Better

Blindsight is the remarkable ability of some blind people to sense objects that they cannot actually see. Read More ›
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Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive. Read More ›
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The Perfect Human Body?

For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution. Read More ›
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Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

Vertebrate eyes work reasonably well, Richard Dawkins conceded, but “it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer!” Read More ›
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Telescope-Like Eyes in a “Simple” Mollusk

Scientists were dumbfounded to find shellfish looking at them with hundreds of elegantly designed eyes. Read More ›
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“Remarkably,” Odor Code Just Doubled

Olfactory receptors squeeze more data out of odor molecules than previously thought. Read More ›
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The Mystery of Vision

Without the right refractive power or eyeball diameter our earliest ancestors would have been as blind as bats. Read More ›

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