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End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Read More ›
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Michael Behe on Meaning Detection in Language, and More

Intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Read More ›
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Image: Bacillus subtilis, identified by Bapteste and his co-authors as a possible age-distorter, by WMrapids, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Eric Bapteste on External Genetic Change In “Age-Distorters”

Species are surrounded by other species (often sharing the same body), and therefore may interfere with one another’s fitness. Read More ›
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New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum

This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years. Read More ›
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What Biologists Can Learn from Engineers, and Vice Versa

If biologists had thought more like engineers, stumbling into the myth of "Junk DNA" might have been avoided. Read More ›
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Teaching About Intelligent Design at Hong Kong Baptist University

Ironically, our students may have more intellectual freedom in China to pursue the truth than they would have in many universities in the United States. Read More ›
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Image: The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo Buonarroti [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome: A Case Study in Cognitive Bias

In a previous article I described how scientific training can condition some scientists’ minds to resist the evidence in nature for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Image: Collage of engineered systems, by Betelgeuse [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biology as Engineering — Specifically, Systems Engineering

Listening to evolutionists, you often get the impression that they forget life is such an exquisitely orchestrated "performance." Read More ›

Foundational Question: Is Biology Engineering?

Look at the photo at the top of this post, and ask yourself: What's the best-engineered object in view? Read More ›

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