Engineering Places Constraints on Cell Size that Evolutions Cannot Explain

ALH84001, Ana Garoña, artificial evolution, astrobiologists, biology, cell division, cell size, college students, cytoplasm, Engineering, enzymes, Evolution, fitness, genome, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, homeostasis, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, Jan M. Skotheim, lipids, Mars, meteorite, mutations, nucleic acids, PNAS, Portugal, proteins, senescence, Shicong Xie, Steve Laufmann, Target of Rapamycin, telephone booth, tennis balls, Volkswagen, yeast cells
Cells reach a Goldilocks size for their needs. Evolutionists are at a loss to say how cells hit the sweet spot for smooth functioning. Source
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Canals on Mars: A Mistaken Design Inference

Alfred Russel Wallace, Are the Planets Inhabited?, astronomers, astronomy, canals, E. M. Antoniadi, E. Walter Maunder, earth, Giovanni Schiaparelli, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Is Mars Habitable?, Man’s Place in the Universe, Mariner 4, Mars, Mars (book), Mars and Its Canals, Mars as the Abode of Life, Martians, meteorites, optical illusions, Percival Lowell, Planetology, planets, universe
Any remaining doubts were settled by Mariner 4 which flew by Mars in 1965 and took pictures demonstrating that there were no canals. Source
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Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

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On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Source
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Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2024: Reagan’s Personal Argument for Intelligent Design

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An untold story from the final year of Reagan’s Presidency about science, faith, and intelligent design. Source
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To Understand the Meaning of a Solar Eclipse

Albert Einstein, americans, astronomers, chromosphere, corona, Dallas-Ft. Worth, discovery, Eagle Pass, earth, eclipse, gas, General Theory of Relativity, Genesis, Goldilocks Zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jupiter, Mars, Mexico, Moon, penumbra, photosphere, Physics, Earth & Space, plasma, prisms, signs, solar eclipse, spectroscopes, starlight, sun, Texas, The Privileged Planet, umbra, universe
The rare places where observers can exist are also the best places for observing. The universe seems to be designed not just for life but also for discovery. Source
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Intelligent Design at High Altitudes

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Surprised at the ability of mammals to thrive at high altitudes, some evolutionists are looking to Darwinian theory for answers. Source
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What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

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What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Source
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Top Science Journal: Let’s Export Wokeness to Outer Space

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Equity advocate says future space colonies should be governed similarly to places like San Francisco or Portland. Source
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Intelligent Design and Planetary Timing 

astrophysicists, coincidences, complex life, E-ring, earth, Enceladus, fine-tuning, G rings, geysers, habitable zone, Intelligent Design, Jupiter, magnetic field, magnetic fields, Mars, Michael Denton, NASA, Neptune, perturbation, Physics, Earth & Space, plate tectonics, ring particles, Second Law of Thermodynamics, solar system, The Miracle of Man, thermodynamics, timing, Titan, Uranus
Enceladus is an especially fascinating case. Nearly 100 geysers of water ice are currently jetting out of its south pole at supersonic speed. Source
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Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”

astrobiology, Astrobiology Magazine, biological activity, calcium, carbon, Carnegie Institute, chlorine, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, earth, elements, hydrogen, intelligence, Intelligent Design, magnesium, Mars, microbes, minerals, NASA, nitrogen, origin of life, oxygen, phosphorus, Physics, Earth & Space, potassium, Robert Hazen, selenium, Stephen Jay Gould, sulfur, The Privileged Planet, Titan, Washington State University
It's intriguing that life as we know it depends on a seemingly un-natural distribution of minerals. Source
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