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Photo: Cell division, via Wikimedia Commons.

Springs, Glues, and Rocket Launchers in Cell Division

The molecules of life do much more than convey information. They combine and impose physical forces on each other in intricate, functional ways. Read More ›
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Photo: Emperor penguins, by Denis Luyten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Synergies All the Way Down 

Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.  Read More ›
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Sex: A Masterpiece of Design

“If any of these aspects…were different or non-existent, then sexual reproduction couldn’t take place. And so you require multiple codependent sub-functions.” Read More ›
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Sex: Engineered for Success

Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system? Read More ›
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Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it? Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA/Bill Dunford.

By Design? Meteors Deliver Iron for Habitability

Unexpected benefits may come from a steady rain of meteoric dust onto the planet. Read More ›
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Image: Human immunodeficiency virus 1, identified by Bapteste and his co-authors as a possible age-distorter, by C. Goldsmith. Content Providers: CDC/ C. Goldsmith, P. Feorino, E. L. Palmer, W. R. McManus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Examining Sources of Genetic Change

Eric Bapteste, a researcher at Sorbonne University, just co-authored a review discussing genetic change in the context of aging. Read More ›
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New Paper Confirms the Trilobite Explosion

It’s important to note that the “true tempo of early animal evolution” exists in evolutionists’ imaginations, not in the rocks. Read More ›
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The Wonders of Genomic Acrobatics: Ciliated Protozoa as a Case Study

Explaining this sort of phenomenon by slight, successive modification, as Darwin envisaged, seems problematic. Read More ›
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Nathan Lents Doesn’t Understand…Refrigeration

Lents studies rotting corpses and household plants. He might not know much about (living) human physiology. Read More ›

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