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Photo: Plant cells, by Hermann Schachner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

On the BBC, a New Openness to Teleology in Biology?

Dr. Richard Buggs is a plant biologist and professor of evolutionary genomics at Queen Mary, University of London. Read More ›
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Photo: Check cells, by Spencer Diamond ©2007, via Wikimedia Commons.

Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›
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On the Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Read More ›
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Image: William Paley, by George Romney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?

Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›
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Using Intelligent Design to Train ChatGPT to Lay Aside Bias

This exchange from yesterday underscores the need for “prompt engineers” that know how best to use and direct ChatGPT. Read More ›
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Nautilus at S.E.A. Aquarium, Singapore
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Revealing God’s Grandeur — Intelligent Design, Evolution, and the Teachings of the Catholic Church

The last few chapters deal with subjects that theistic evolutionists like to use against ID: Aristotle, Aquinas, and randomness. Read More ›
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Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?

Brian Miller reports that optimality is becoming a tool of prediction in biology, with more biologists returning to the use of design-based assumptions. Read More ›
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Image: Hippocrates, Stuyvesant Polyclinic, New York, NY, by Tony Fischer via Flickr.

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Read More ›
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Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Read More ›

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