Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

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With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Source
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On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence

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In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Source
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Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

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Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Source
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We are Children of Light and Water: Dr. Michael Denton

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“In this vast range, there’s only one…infinitesimally small band which has the right energy for photosynthesis,” a prerequisite for human life. Coincidence? Source
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How Did the Designer Do It? 

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Source
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Nobelist Thomas Cech on “Junk RNA” 

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We can add this prominent biochemist to the ever-growing list of scientists who reject the “junk DNA” paradigm. Or, more pertinently, the junk RNA paradigm. Source
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An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

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Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life. Source
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Cell Cannibalism Shows Intelligent Design

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“Eat me!” cries a cell to other cells. But biochemists know it is for the greater good. Source
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