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Image credit: NASA/Michael Lentz.

The Joy of Purposeful Solar Eclipses

Intelligent design advocates have more fun at eclipses, knowing they are not just coincidental. That was certainly my experience on April 8. Read More ›
Buzz-Aldrin
Photo: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, 1969, via Wikimedia Commons.

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›
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In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology

The existence of thermostatic control of our body temperature is not at all surprising supposing life to be the product of a purposeful engineer. Read More ›
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You’re Invited! Get the Total Solar Eclipse Experience, April 7-8, in Waxahachie, TX

Beyond the sensory experience lies something even more astonishing — a cosmological coincidence of metaphysical significance to human existence.  Read More ›
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Intelligent Design in Weather — The “Perfect Day” Conspiracy

At the end of a perfect day, when the Sun is setting, the beams of light we see slant through the atmosphere nearly parallel (tangent) to the Earth’s surface. Read More ›
hydrothermal vents
Photo: Hydrothermal vents, by NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Twilight Zone Expedition Team 2007, NOAA-OE., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Read More ›
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Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Read More ›
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Photo: Steam locomotive, by Petar Milošević / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Paul Ashby on Thermodynamics, Information, and Life’s Molecular Machines

I particularly appreciate how his arguments complement my own analyses addressing the origin of life. Read More ›

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