05Dec 2025 by Post

Tiled Beauty: Functional Aesthetics in Biology

architecture, armadillos, arthropods, beauty, beehive, beeswax, biodiversity, biology, Biomimetics, butterfly wings, classification, compound eyes, Darwinism, design, Engineering, Evolution, False Messiah, function, functional needs, German Research Foundation, Gothic cathedrals, honeycomb, Intelligent Design, Jana Ciecierska-Holmes, Linnaean taxonomy, multifunctionality, Neil Thomas, phylogeny, PNAS Nexus, reptiles, scales, sunflowers, tessellated patterns, tessellation, tile shapes, tiles, tortoise shell
Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws?  Source
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27Nov 2025 by Post

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are the Top 3 Reasons for Optimism on Intelligent Design in 2025

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One reason is the way any materialist explanation of cosmic origins keeps looking more and more implausible. See the new book by Charles Murray on that. Source
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25Nov 2025 by Post

Destroyer or Nurturer? Darwin’s Divinized Conception of Nature

Alan of, Alfred Russel Wallace, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bernard Silvestris, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Brontë, cosmology, Darwinism, Edward Pusey, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, historical sciences, Jane Eyre, Jean de Meun, Lamarckism, maternal figure, Mother Nature, Natura, Natura creatrix, natural preservation, natural selection, natural theology, Ovid, Physis, Queens of the Wild, Robert J. Richards, Romance of the Rose, Ronald Hutton, teleology, world spirit
The powers of natural selection transcend human intelligence to such a degree that Darwin came close to imputing to it the capacity for intelligent design. Source
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21Nov 2025 by Post

Casey Luskin: Theistic Evolution and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism

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Casey Luskin addresses the inadequacy of natural selection and random mutation to generate biological complexity. Source
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16Nov 2025 by Post

Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail

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In our experience, this type of specified information always comes from a mind, whether it’s hieroglyphics or the origin of a car. Source
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14Nov 2025 by Post

Getting Out Truth Around Mainstream News

articles, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, chimpanzees, design, Discovery Institute, editors, educators, Evolution, Evolution News and Views, Faith and Science Update, Human Origins Fossil Hall, Intelligent Design, lay leaders, layout, National Museum of Natural History, New York Post, Nota Bene, Parents, photographs, Research, scholars, Science and Culture Today, Smithsonian Institution, students, subscription, writers
This was a major accomplishment, considering how intelligent design proponents or anyone who critiques evolution is treated in mainstream media. Source
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11Nov 2025 by Post

For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

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Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Source
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09Nov 2025 by Post

Robert Marks Remembers ID and Tech Pioneer Walter Bradley

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In 1984, three scientists dared to probe the mystery of life’s origin by putting the prevailing theories of prebiotic and chemical evolution to the test. Source
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07Nov 2025 by Post

“First Multi-Purpose ‘Swiss Army Knives’ Made by Hominins”

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The tools date from about 2.75 through 2.44 million years ago (Pliocene). They underwent little change over the years, despite the changing environment. Source
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