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Image: A scene from "Molecular Machines — ATP Synthase: The Power Plant of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

No, Intelligent Design Doesn’t Reason by Analogy; Here’s Why

We also see machines in living systems. That’s not to say that cells or living systems on the whole are “machines,” but they do contain machines. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” Is Not Alone: Gaps Everywhere!

There is clearly a pattern of discontinuities that requires an adequate explanation, and Darwinism is not it. Read More ›
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Photo: Hydrothermal vents, by NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature Article Admits Unanswered Origin-of-Life Questions, Exposing Broken Promises of ID Critics

In 2016, physicist Lawrence Krauss promised, “We’re coming very close” to explaining the origin of life via chemical evolutionary models. Read More ›
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NCSE Underreports Teachers Who Support Intelligent Design

The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a non-profit group that has one primary mission: to censor minority scientific viewpoints on hot-button issues like evolution. Read More ›
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Bring “Visible Thinking” to Evolution Education

This work reminds me strongly of the Center for Science & Culture’s emphasis on analysis, evaluation, and examining the evidence in public school evolution education. Read More ›
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Science Education and the Growth Mindset

Growth mindset is an idea popularized by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. Read More ›
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Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery

French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.” Read More ›

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