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Photo: A sample of RNA, by Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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Photo credit: Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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An Object Lesson in How Not to Do Science

The story the public is told is contrary to evidence but scientists have to keep telling it because otherwise the wrong people might benefit. 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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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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Did Dr. Dan Make Us Change Our Position on Junk DNA?

This claim is totally false and it perhaps reflects Dr. Dan’s wish to find a positive spin on the substance of what happened during the debate. Read More ›
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Reflections on Casey Luskin’s Debate with “Dr. Dan”

I commend Dr. Dan for being an amicable dialogue partner and for his good faith attempt to engage substantively with the relevant scientific issues. Read More ›
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From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›

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