For Evolution, Monarch Butterfly Migration Is a Mystery

animal behavior, antennae, biology, butterflies, Canada, circadian clock, compound eyes, Danaus plexippus, Evolution, genomes, Intelligent Design, latitude, magnetic compass, Mexico, migration, milkweed, monarch butterfly, navigation, neurobiology, Stonehenge, sun compass, United States
It typically takes up to three generations of butterflies to make the complete journey. This means that the navigation information is genetically programmed. Source
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Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

animals, Anomalocaris, behaviors, brains, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, cell types, Charles Darwin, Charnia, China, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacarans, Evolution, Fossil Hall, fossil record, Hallucigenia, Intelligent Design, mollusks, National Museum of Natural History, Opabinia, organs, oxygen, paleontology, Pikaia, Smithsonian Institution, Spriggina, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Woodward, tissue types, Tribrachidium, trilobites, Wiwaxia
The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Source
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Meyer, Isaac: Is Information in DNA “Abstract”?

abstraction, American Scientific Affiliation, Brian Miller, Christianity, DNA, English, Evolution, Francis Crick, information, Intelligent Design, nucleotide bases, origin of life, Randy Isaac, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley
The American Scientific Affiliation is an association of Christian scientists who are not on the whole supportive of scientific arguments for intelligent design. Source
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Manipulating Molecules: Combining Info + Nano for Better Medicine

adenosine diphosphate, bacteria, biology, cancer, HIV, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Matthew Scholz, Medicine, molecular machines, nanobots, nanocars, Oisin Biotechnologies, promoters, proteolipid vehicles, repressors, Rice University, RNA, scalpel, Stephen Meyer, virus
“Oscar Wilde said nature imitates art,” Meyer said. And today we’re going to see that “technology is able to imitate and even in some ways, improve on nature.” Source
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University of Chicago Biochemist: All Living Cells Are Cognitive

archaea, bacteria, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, biology, cell's, cognition, Daniel Dennett, intelligence, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Oxford English Dictionary, protoplasm, quorum sensing, University of Chicago
James Shapiro’s recent paper points out, with examples, that bacteria meet the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of “cognitive.” Source
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Keating, England: Two Jewish Physicists on Faith, Intelligent Design, and More

Brian Keating, Brian Miller, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Into the Impossible, Jeremy England, Judaism, Moses, origin of life, Orthodox Jews, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, serpent, staff, Stephen Meyer, thermodynamics
The last 48 minutes or so are the most compelling as England, an Orthodox rabbi, talks about the reason for his “tending to reject” arguments for ID. Source
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