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Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System

This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting. Read More ›
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Yeast Gives Evidence of “Genes-in-Waiting”

Professor Carvunis stressed that the genetic patterns she is studying do not fit with the evolutionary theory she learned “since I was an undergraduate.” Read More ›
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Reeves: A Rising Star Describes a Biological Revolution

“Engineers more easily recognize impressive design because they have actually tied to build stuff.” Read More ›
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Emily Reeves: The Systems Biology Revolution

A biochemist and metabolic nutritionist explains why the systems biology revolution is intelligent-design friendly. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Engineering in the Biological Sciences”

Dr. Miller takes on a number of specific examples including the celebrated eyeless cavefish, which he “used to think was an absolute win for microevolution.” Read More ›
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Event Report: Design and the Designer

There were 16 different talks, ranging from the history of science and faith to more technical topics like systems biology and design triangulation. Read More ›
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Complex Programmed Behaviors — Intelligently Designed

Some discriminators don’t get us very far in deciding which is the better explanation between blind evolution and intelligent design. Read More ›
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Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›
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Blood Pressure — And Genuflecting to Evolution

Systems biologists assume for the sake of research that a biological system under investigation is optimally engineered. Read More ›
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The Return of Teleology to Biology

Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought. Read More ›

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