Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

archaea, bacteria, beauty, Blaise Pascal, Caltech, Coscinodiscus, Cristobal Vila, Current Biology, diatoms, electron microscope, Engineering, eukaryotes, frustules, Germany, God Hypothesis, Gothic cathedrals, Intelligent Design, Izabela Zgłobicka, Life Sciences, light microscope, Michael Gross, microbes, Nature by Numbers, Nature Scientific Reports, photosynthetic algae, Poland, purpose, Zachary Aitken
The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like Gothic cathedrals. Source
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Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

archaea, bacteria, biogeography, biology, Biology Direct, cell's, discontinuity, Douglas Theobald, embryology, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, Evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, Intelligent Design, mathematics, mechanisms of evolution, paleontology, phyla, protein folds, rafting, Theistic Evolution (book), transitional forms, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry, viruses
For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Source
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The Tragedy of Eukaryote Evolution

archaea, bacteria, California, careers, coronavirus, death camps, eukaryotes, Evolution, gender binary, gender-reveal party, genders, heterosexuality, housework, Insider (magazine), Jane Ward, John Zmirak, Maine, New York University Press, nucleus, parody, prokaryotes, sex, sexuality, The Stream, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, tigers, UC Riverside, wildfires
Think of all the frustrated longings, misunderstandings, jealousy, and more entailed by the fact that males and females constitute separate genders. Source
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Design Filter Is Best Bet for Finding Liars

bacteria, cheaters, Cody Porter, cooperators, courtroom, Darwinism, deception, drugs, electromagnetics, fact-checkers, forensic science, forensics, gravity, humans, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, liars, lie detection, lying, mantid, Model Statement, Mount Rushmore, Nicholas Caputo, objective truth, perfect crime, postmodernism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, torture, truth-tellers, University of Portsmouth, Why Evolution Is True, William Dembski
Not all intelligent design is benevolent. Design can deceive. Can ID techniques filter the true from the false? Source
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Intention, Agency, Even in “Simple” Life Is No Illusion

agency, bacteria, biology, illusion, Intelligent Design, intention, life, Life Sciences, Michael Denton, neutrophils, physiology, Purpose and Desire, Robert Crowther, Scott Turner, State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences, The Miracle of the Cell
As biologist Scott Turner explains, the appearance is not false but very real, a fact from whose profound implications most scientists veil their eyes. Source
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