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Michael J. Behe
March 10, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Evolution, Design, and COVID-19

Michael J. Behe
March 10, 2020
Intelligent Design
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With respect to the coronavirus epidemic and evolution, the bottom line is that, while of course the virus is dangerous, the situation can be compared to a strong storm on the ocean. The waves may be huge and the surface roiling, but the deeper waters continue as they always have, essentially undisturbed. In a similar way, although superficially it changes very rapidly, some researchers think that the coronavirus and many other virus types have remained basically the same for tens of millions of years. Read More ›
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Stanley Miller of Miller-Urey fame, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons.
James Tour
March 10, 2020
Intelligent Design
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We’re Still Clueless about the Origin of Life

James Tour
March 10, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Organisms have well-defined molecular assemblies, redox potentials across membranes, and metabolic pathways — all operating in exquisite states that we call “life.”  Chemistry, by contrast, is utterly indifferent to whether anything is alive or not. Without a biologically derived entity acting upon them, molecules have never been shown to “evolve” toward life. Never. While organisms exploit chemistry for their own Read More ›

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Michael J. Behe
March 4, 2020
Intelligent Design
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The Effects of Mutation

Michael J. Behe
March 4, 2020
Intelligent Design
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In this episode of Secrets of the Cell, biochemist and bestselling author Michael Behe explores the impact of mutations on evolution. Do random mutations and natural selection provide an explanation for the development of new organisms and features in the history of life? Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
February 27, 2020
Economics
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Seattle Is Socialism’s Laboratory, and It’s Not Pretty

Christopher Rufo
February 27, 2020
Economics
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Democratic socialists are in the middle of a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. Led by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and the “squad” of newly elected congresswomen, the hard-left coalition has laid out an ambitious agenda to transform the United States into a democratic socialist nation and Seattle has effectively become the nation’s laboratory for socialist policies. Read More ›
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Michael J. Behe and Joshua Swamidass
February 27, 2020
Intelligent Design
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God and/or Evolution?

Michael J. Behe and Joshua Swamidass
February 27, 2020
Intelligent Design
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The scientific community seeks to give an account of the world around us in terms of mathematical laws and natural processes; this description even extends to the account of biological life’s origin and evolution. For Christians, this consensus has posed a number of challenges. Does evolution account for biological life? Was God involved in evolution? How? Is there evidence to Read More ›

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Michael J. Behe
February 26, 2020
Intelligent Design
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The Power of Evolution

Michael J. Behe
February 26, 2020
Intelligent Design
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In this episode of Secrets of the Cell, biochemist Michael Behe starts by exploring the amazing mechanical gears discovered in planthopper insects that scream “design!,” and then he moves into a discussion of the theory of evolution and what it hopes to explain. Read More ›
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Michael Denton
February 24, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Privileged Species: Human Uniqueness

Michael Denton
February 24, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Are humans the accidental products of a blind and uncaring universe? Or are they the beneficiaries of a cosmic order that was planned beforehand to help them flourish? Excerpted from the documentary Privileged Species. For more information visit privilegedspecies.com. Privileged Species is a 33-minute documentary by Discovery Institute that explores growing evidence from physics, chemistry, biology, and related fields that Read More ›

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Michael J. Behe
February 20, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Philosophical-ish Objections to Intelligent Design: A Response to Paul Draper

Michael J. Behe
February 20, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Recently I was asked by several people whether I had ever responded to an old review of Darwin’s Black Box by Purdue University philosopher of religion Paul Draper. I had not done so, but will use the occasion to respond now and to clear up a couple of philosophical-ish objections that have been raised against intelligent design over the years. In 2002 Read More ›