25Nov 2024 by Post

Francis Collins Employs Climate Change as a Cudgel

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Collins identifies as a Christian, but he seems to have missed a glaring instance of design in the Earth system. Source
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20May 2024 by Post

Phenology: The Science of Seasonal Adaptation

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No, not phrenology — phenology. It’s not pseudoscience, but a lesser-known branch of science that includes birds, bees, and trees. Source
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25Apr 2024 by Post

The Joy of Purposeful Solar Eclipses

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Intelligent design advocates have more fun at eclipses, knowing they are not just coincidental. That was certainly my experience on April 8. Source
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01Mar 2024 by Post

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Source
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26Feb 2024 by Post

You’re Invited! Get the Total Solar Eclipse Experience, April 7-8, in Waxahachie, TX

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Beyond the sensory experience lies something even more astonishing — a cosmological coincidence of metaphysical significance to human existence.  Source
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03Aug 2022 by Post

Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

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Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Source
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24Sep 2021 by Post

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

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Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Source
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