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Signature in the Cell

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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr.

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

Wallace was the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. He later broke with Darwin over the question of teleology. Read More ›
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For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table

ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea. Read More ›
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Image credit: An imagined alien “super-Earth,” by ESO/M. Kornmesser, via NASA.

Are We Alone in the Cosmos? Here’s a Real Paradox for You

The problem is, none of these people cite papers or other writing by researchers on intelligent design, like the work done by Douglas Axe on protein evolution probabilities. Read More ›
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Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›
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Computer Software Sheds Light on Human and Chimp DNA Similarity

Recently I had the opportunity to hear Discovery Institute’s Stephen Meyer provide an update on the progress and current state of the theory of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo: A Predator drone, by U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

In the Wall Street Journal, Stephen Meyer Proposes an Intelligent Design for National Defense

Writing with Arthur Herman, he proposes a cheap and technologically very attainable alternative to waiting passively to see what comes of North Korea’s growing ICBM collection. Read More ›
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Adam and the Genome and the Evolution of the Genetic Code

Dennis Venema's arguments about Michael Yarus’s work were already addressed in detail by Meyer and Nelson in a technical paper. Read More ›
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Photo: Jack Szostak, by Markus Pössel (Mapos) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Prominent Retraction Vindicates Stephen Meyer and Signature in the Cell

Criticism suggested that Nobel laureate Jack Szostak and others were fast closing in on a solution to the origin-of-life problem with the “principle of RNA self-replication." Read More ›
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In Time for Black Friday, Here’s the New Discovery Institute Bookstore

It's the traditional first day of the Christmas shopping season. What should you do? Read More ›

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