Paul Steinhardt’s Cyclical Cosmology Fails to Challenge a Cosmic Beginning 

Abraham Loeb, Anna Ijjas, Big Bang, brane, Charlie Wood, contraction phase, cosmic beginning, cosmology, cyclical cosmology, entropy, Faith & Science, homogeneity, inflation phase, inflationary theory, Intelligent Design, isotropy, Paul Steinhardt, Physics, Earth & Space, Quanta Magazine, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, Stephen Meyer
The conclusion that the universe had a beginning is far more parsimonious and consistent with the evidence. Source
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A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

atmosphere, biology, biology textbooks, early Earth, Eric Anderson, Evolution, experiments, glassware, Harold Urey, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Podcast, Stanley Miller, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Chicago
It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Source
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The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law 

American Journal of Physics, atoms, automobiles, BIO-Complexity, Biological Information: New Perspectives, civilization, coins, computers, duplication errors, earth, Events, Evolution, Intelligent Design, materialists, mathematics, natural forces, open system, origin of life, physics, Physics Essays, Physics, Earth & Space, rubble, Second Law of Thermodynamics, self-replicator, sun, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, tornado, William Dembski
Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Source
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Bacterial Flagellum Demonstrates the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Engineering Models

bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, biology, components, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, constraints, Dean Schulz, design logic, Engineering, engineering model, engineering-based models, Evolution, genetic network, hook, Intelligent Design, interrelationships, manufacturing, navigation, propeller, propulsion system, proteins, requirements, transport gate
Dean Schulz investigated the design of the flagellum with a method that could be described as groundbreaking. Source
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Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2021: Cambrian Explosion Goes Nuclear

arthropods, biology, Cambrian biota, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, David Gelernter, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, Edicaran animals, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, first appearance date, fungus, glide symmetry, Gregory Retallack, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Intelligent Design, latest appearance date, Mongolia, Nama Basin, Namibia, Neo-Darwinism, Peaceful Science, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, University of Zurich, Vendobionta, Yale University
Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Source
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#3 Story of 2021: In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists on “Waiting Time” Problem for Coordinated Mutations

Ann Gauger, arthropods, Avalon explosion, binding sites, Cambrian Explosion, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0 research project, Intelligent Design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, marbles, mutations, nucleotides, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed literature, polynomial, regulatory regions, Springer, Stochastic Processes and Applications, tetrapods, vascular plants, waiting-time problem
The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Source
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The Year in Review: Three Major Advances for Intelligent Design

agnostics, Ann Gauger, atheists, biology, CELS 2021, Center for Science & Culture, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, ecological interactions, Engineering, Evolution, Günter Bechly, holism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Junk DNA, materialistic philosophy, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, Ola Hössjer, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, William Dembski
The situation resembles a poorly constructed dam holding back water that is continuously rising. Source
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#6 Story of 2021: Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”

bilharzia, biology, DNA, Evolution, IDEA Club, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, ncRNAs, non-coding DNA, non-coding RNAs, paradigm, parasites, platyhelminth worm, Schistosoma mansoni, sex-determination, South Africa, southern Africa, UC San Diego
In the past, one of the most common rebuttals to ID was, “If life was designed, then why is over 90 percent of the genome composed of junk DNA?” Source
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