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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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Plato’s Revenge: An Interview with David Klinghoffer

We are now overdue for a profound revolution in science, one you’ve probably heard very little about. 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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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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Could This Be the Year’s Most Ridiculous Idea About How Life Originated?

Stories like this always want to tell us how Earth and life are not “special.” It’s an obsession with science writers, and seemingly with the folks at NASA too. Read More ›
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Dark Proteome Information Content Skyrockets

There could be a five-fold increase in the number of proteins coded in what was formerly called non-protein-coding DNA. Read More ›
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What’s the Big Deal About the Human Brain?

None of the features identified by neuroscientists explain why humans think about things that other animal life forms don't. Read More ›
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RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System

Some researchers wonder if RNA can be understood as a common language that can be read among cells of widely different life forms. Read More ›
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Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic. Read More ›
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The Extracellular Space: Where the Rest of Life Takes Place

"Zooming out from a single cell, the human body as a whole is made up of around thirty trillion cells." Read More ›

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