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Doctor’s Diary: The Wonder of Your Body’s Genetic Instructions

Imagine the New York Public Library cutting every manual in half daily, or more often, and sending every month entire halves to a library in London. Read More ›
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Photo: Sperm, by Bobjgalindo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: The Human Difference and the Design of Sex

It’s safe to say that human intimacy, at its best, surpasses that of any animal, even the most intelligent. Read More ›
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Image: View of a child in the womb, by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1489.

What the Abortion Debate Tells Us About Integrity in Science

Science has quite a bit to contribute to our debate about abortion as a matter public policy. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ashlyak [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Born: Life as Potter’s Clay

The birth of gene-edited children — which I discussed here just yesterday — has been confirmed. Read More ›
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Photo: North American porcupine, by National Park Service, via Wikimedia Commons.

Doctor’s Diary: Porcupine Quills and Other Examples of Nature’s Foresight

A newborn porcupine passes through its mother’s birth canal without causing her any injuries. How? Read More ›
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Photo: Spermatogenesis in action, by Nephron [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Importance of Centrobin in Sperm Development — Another Stumbling Block for Darwinism

“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications...” Read More ›
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Image: Condensin goes to work, by Delft University of Technology, screen shot via YouTube.

DNA as Architect as Well as Librarian: Structural Functions of the Double Helix

Early geneticists missed a lot when they looked at DNA only for its coding function. Read More ›

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