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Evolution Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition
3+ hour ago (528+ words) How can we make sense of claims for plant consciousness? At the Epoch Times, Makai Elías Calles discusses recent findings about plants’ complex ability to perceive and react to their environments: Plants lack neurons, but they still readily communicate, including…...
Origin of Biological Information? Nope, Just Its Recycling
5+ hour, 34+ min ago (513+ words) Followers of the debate between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution will be familiar with Christoph Adami's example. Source We have been going through Christoph Adami’s book, The Evolution of Biological Information. The last section of his chapter on “Experiments in…...
Avida and Making Eye Evolution Seem Plausible
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (159+ words) Adami presents the eye as “a very instructive example of a complex trait that has gradually evolved.” He says that it evolves by the gradual addition of parts to an existing functional system. Each part is constructed by reusing and…...
New Thriller Tackles Intelligent Design and Robert Oppenheimer
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (604+ words) A new novel that’s a thriller with intelligent design as a significant story element: what do you picture? A car chase with Stephen Meyer through the mean streets of the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA? An international plot by Richard…...
In NY Post, McDiarmid on Social Isolation and the Tech Nightmare
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (303+ words) Our colleague Andrew McDiarmid has a powerful piece in the New York Post today, with a fascinating statistic: The data tell us that Americans are quite literally speaking to each other less. A March 2026 study demonstrated that the number of…...
Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (509+ words) In five previous articles (find the full series here), I offered a series of responses to YouTuber Dave Farina’s criticisms of my defense of biochemist Michael Behe’s work. Here, in this final installment, I will engage with Farina’s comments regarding…...
In Defense of The Edge of Evolution, a Response to Dave Farina
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (174+ words) In four previous articles (find the full series here), I replied to YouTuber Dave Farina’s response to my defenses of biochemist Michael Behe’s work. In this fifth installment, I will engage with Farina’s critique of my comments on The Edge…...
How Irreducible Complexity Can Help with Cancer Drug Research
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (992+ words) Topoisomerases are molecular machines that play a critical role in resolving DNA tangles and supercoiling generated during DNA replication. Source Joe Deweese, professor of biochemistry at Freed-Hardeman University and an advocate of intelligent design, is an expert in both the…...
Has Dave Farina Refuted Behe and Me on the Bacterial Flagellum?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (350+ words) In any case, let us review what Farina did in fact say in response to other aspects of my critique. Let’s move on to part two, which is about the bacterial flagellum, the honorary mascot of intelligent design. He starts…...
Answering Dave Farina on the Vpu Protein in HIV-1
1+ week, 1+ day ago (207+ words) Another example I mentioned in the Behe debunk is the VPU protein in HIV-1. It evolved the ability to counteract part of the human immune system that’s different from other apes, a completely new function, without losing its ancestral function....