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Clarity, Please: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

Four Caltech scientists taught “nature” to do the “unnatural” by first isolating a microbe that lives in the hot springs of Iceland. Read More ›
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Precision Design Logic Explains Childbirth Better than Darwinism Does

It is only in the last few decades that science has been able to unravel what is going on at the molecular level within the uterus during labor and delivery. Read More ›
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For “Convergent Evolution,” Darwinists Offer Awkward Explanatory Tinkering

How clever of separate kingdoms of organisms to have figured all this out independently! Read More ›
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Three Animal Magnetic Compass Mechanisms, All by Design

It appears likely that different animals are designed to detect the geomagnetic field using different mechanisms. Read More ›
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Skulls from China Said to Push Origin of Homo sapiens Back to 1 Million Years 

How many times have we been told that some new paleoanthropological find is “rewriting the story of human evolution”? Read More ›
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot: A Maverick Who Broke the Consensus

The Mandelbrot set reminds me of the Fibonacci series that, in a similar way, gives rise to aesthetically pleasing patterns in a wide variety of natural phenomena. Read More ›
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“Rewriting Code of Life” Sounds a Lot Like Intelligent Design

Modifying the genetic code is easy. Right? It would have to be, under an evolutionary understanding. Read More ›
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Critics Change the Topic: Do Human-Human Genetic Differences Matter? 

One of the common yet unexpected reactions from critics to the discovery that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different is to change the topic. Read More ›
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Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Read More ›
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Should Science Be Publicly Funded at All?

Waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding. Private funding could well be more intelligently directed. Read More ›

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