Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

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A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish. Source
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Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Source
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Minimal Complexity Problem in Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion

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The scorpion can detect tiny vibrations, of order 1 Angstrom (the size of a hydrogen atom) in amplitude, that emanate from its prey. Source
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Life as a Half-Full Glass

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A 2018 book by biologist Nathan Lents is full of complaints about our bodies. Professor Lents has been answered in detail already. Source
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Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2022: Evolutionists Admit Their Field’s Failures

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If you’ve ever owned an automobile toward the end of its life, the situation will be familiar. Source
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#3 Story of 2022: Did Researchers Explain the Origin of Life?

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The research paper avers, “These results support the capability of molecular replicators to spontaneously develop complexity through Darwinian evolution.” Source
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#4 Story of 2022: Science Journal Reaffirms Universe Had a Beginning

Anna Ijjas, beginning, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, Charlotte Hsu, cosmology, Ethan Siegel, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Nina Stein, Null Energy Condition, Paul Steinhardt, philosophy, Phys.org, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, spacetime, Stephen Meyer, theism, University of Buffalo, Will Kinney
If the universe and everything in it are the result of a mind, then we are not unintended accidents of nature. Source
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