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Researchers Overlook Toxic Products in Origin-of-Life Experiments

They stop reactions at optimal times, and scan through products of their reactions with high-tech equipment to find trace amounts of the product they seek. Read More ›
Cueva de Ardales
Photo: Cueva de Ardales, © João Zilhão, ICREA, via EurekAlert!

Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference

An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location. Read More ›
cactus
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Handling Water Like Nature Does — By Intelligent Design

Here in the Pacific Northwest we are heading into a possibly historic heatwave. Water is on everyone's mind. Nature beautifully anticipated our needs. Read More ›
hydrothermal vents
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 ›
geraniums
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Plant Diversity and Computer Programming

I asked the gardener how come, after all these years, the soil in my geranium pots is at roughly the same level. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design Mugs? We’ve Got Them

For our biochemistry geeks, one mug contains both the periodic table of elements and a DNA-amino acids codon wheel. Read More ›
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The Elements — An Independent Line of Evidence for Intelligent Design

Twenty elements — and water, too — appear to have been precisely fine-tuned in advance for highly specific biochemical roles. Read More ›
Top 6 Evidence for Intelligent Design
Image: "Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Gerald Eichstädt.

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›
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Is Fine-Tuning “More Extreme” in Biology or Cosmology?

As authors Thorvaldsen and Hössjer say, “Biology is inherently more complicated than the large-scale universe and so fine-tuning is even more a feature.” Read More ›

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