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Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Security Gates in the Cell

A key characteristic of life is active transport: control over what enters and exits the cell. Closer looks reveal exquisite “selectivity filters” with moving parts that make active transport work. Read More ›
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Hey, Paul Davies — Your ID Is Showing

No better advertisements for intelligent design exist than works written by establishment scientists that unintentionally make design arguments. Read More ›
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Getting “Intelligent Design” Backward

That framing is backwards, or perhaps upside-down, probably in order to make the paper by Granville Sewell sound unreasonable. Read More ›
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Retraction Watch Guys Hallucinate “Intelligent Design” Yet Again

A helpful formulation comes from podcaster Scott Adams, of “Dilbert” fame, who comments entertainingly on the political scene. Read More ›
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Informed Choice Seen in Cellular Nanomachines

As imaging techniques approach nanometer resolution, the detailed workings of molecular mechanisms reveal precision engineering designs. Read More ›
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David Berlinski on Europe, Entropy, Agnosticism

Berlinski tempts Peter Robinson to ask him whether he still considers himself an agnostic. Read More ›
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Brian Miller on Complex Systems and “Intellectual Captivity”

Dr. Miller speaks about the prison-like “intellectual captivity” imposed on science students who don’t accept prevailing theories of scientific materialism. Read More ›
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Two Schemes to Defeat the Second Law

I also have a scheme that I believe can defeat the generalized second law. My scheme is called “intelligence.” Read More ›
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Darwinism as Pantheism or Vitalism

That evolutionary scientists are materialists seems to be belied by the way some of them write. Read More ›
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In Search of Self-Replicating Clocks

That Darwinism seems even superficially plausible depends completely on the ability of living things to reproduce themselves without significant degradation. Read More ›

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