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spine

Doctor’s Diary: The Design of the Human Nervous System

Our skin and our insides are laced with an invisible, highly sophisticated, selective, neurological netting. Read More ›
Foresight Eberlin
intelligent design

Gold Rush of Discovery Points Beyond Blind Evolutionary Process — to Foresight

We’re told that it’s out of bounds for science to go there. I take up that claim in the final chapter of my book, Foresight. Read More ›
Froghopper
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Small Wonders: Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Amazing Little Insects and Crustaceans

It often seems that the closer you need to look, the greater the wonder. It’s as if someone set it there to hide, waiting for us. Read More ›
sweat

Beating the Summer Heat — Thanks to Human Exceptionalism

It’s hot out. Be glad that you’re a human being, and not some other kind of mammal. Read More ›
Lents Wisdom

Nathan Lents and the Wisdom of Testicles

He thinks they should be inside the body, not outside. Read More ›
Earth

A Panicked Scientist, a Privileged Planet

Our planet’s view of the sun is critical to life, obviously, but equally critical is that it’s a shielded view. Read More ›
ocean

New Geochemical Discoveries Reaffirm Earth as a Privileged Planet

Remember CHONPS — the acronym you learned in high school to remember the elements most important for life? Read More ›
How to Build a Cell
water
Image: "How to Build a Cell," from Origin: Design, Chance, and the First Life on Earth, courtesy of Illustra Media.

The Wonder of Water at the Nanoscale

More detail has come out on the fascinating role of water in cellular dynamics, touched on by Denton in his book, The Wonder of Water. Read More ›
Wonder-of-Water

Water — A Grand Story of Intelligent Design, Told by Michael Denton

Its unique properties allow it to fill many roles throughout the biological world, from forming the matrix of our cells, to regulating the temperature of our planet. Read More ›
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Anomalous Aspects of Common Water

The subject of Michael Denton’s new book — water — is ubiquitous, as indeed for living creatures it must be. Read More ›

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