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Postcard from Venice: First Pan-European Conference on Intelligent Design

Recently I had the great privilege and honor to attend a remarkable event in the beautiful and historic city of Venice, Italy. Read More ›
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Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Read More ›
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The Incompatibility of Evolution and Design

Though Dr. Rope Kojonen acknowledges the design of the flagellum, he credits a rigged evolutionary process with its creation. Read More ›
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Can the Laws of Nature Design Life? Emily Reeves Considers the Compatibility of Evolution and ID

As an example, Dr. Reeves describes how the law of gravity interacts with a growing plant. Read More ›
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Photo: Brian Miller, by Daniel Reeves.

Brian Miller: Rarity and Isolation of Proteins in Sequence Space

Dr. Miller reports on research showing that the probability of a protein continuing to work after each mutation drops precipitously. Read More ›
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Image: Wedding Dance, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Dance at Two Weddings: Rope Kojonen’s Evolutionary Quest

According to a proverb, you can’t dance at two weddings at the same time. Dr. Kojonen believes that you can. Read More ›
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Can Evolution and Intelligent Design Be Happily Wedded?

Casey Luskin kicks off a series of interviews responding to theologian Dr. Rope Kojonen’s proposal. Read More ›
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Intelligently Designed Evolution? Sorry, Wrong Universe

Many in the intelligent design camp have considered the possibility that the evolutionary process was designed. Read More ›
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Photo: Bald eagle, by Carl Chapman, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”

On Rope Kojonen's model, she no longer has grounds to trust her common-sense intuition of the design of the eagle’s eye. Read More ›
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Photo: Dolphins, by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price

Rope Kojonen sees convergence as evidence that laws of form "play a significant role" in helping evolutionary processes cluster around similar solutions. Read More ›

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