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Silicon-Based Life: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?
No living cell we know of produces carbon-silicon bonds, but scientists "evolved" a way to make cells produce them.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Ethics and Embryo Research: Let the Promise-Breaking Begin (Again)
I have come to the conclusion that "the scientists" believe themselves entitled to do what they want, in the way they want.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Daddy and Baby: Evolutionary Legends Die Hard
A colleague shares this gem from a get-together with friends.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Feathers on a Bird or Dinosaur Tail? The Media Are Certain; the Scientific Evidence Less So
A section of a 99-million-year-old feathered tail in a chunk of amber belongs to a juvenile dinosaur. Or does it?
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
LSU Ophthalmologist Commends a "Design Approach" in Appraising Supposedly Vestigial Organs
Sometimes when our worldview is wrong, we miss important things.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Best of Behe: An Open Letter to Professors Kenneth Miller and PZ Myers
Everyone is looking forward to seeing your calculations. Please keep the rhetoric to a minimum.
Michael Behe
http://www.discovery.org/p/31
Categories: Anti-Science News
Post-Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell's Views Presaged Modern Arguments for Intelligent Design
One design inference Maxwell made in this period concerns his famous thought experiment, "Maxwell's demon."
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Naval Academy Philosopher: Laypeople Are Entitled to an Opinion on Science Questions
The "participatory model" is a worthy complement to Doug Axe's "common science."
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
Fact-Check: Austin, TX, Newspaper Bungles Description of Discovery Institute; Reporter Won't Correct Record
Austin American Statesman reporter Madlin Mekelburg could take a lesson in neutrality in reporting.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
Pre-Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell's Design Argument Foreshadowed Modern ID Theory
We will consider the pre- and post-Darwin views of a genius who helped usher in the modern age of electromagnetic technology.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Behe: Nobel Prize for Chemistry Begs the Question of Intelligent Design
"Nano" machines are impressive as technical achievements. Yet they are also exceedingly simple, "cute" but "useless."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Evolving Protein-Protein Binding -- Not a Problem?
Dennis Venema writes a series of posts for BioLogos called "Letters to the Duchess" -- an allusion to Galileo's "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina."
Cornelius Hunter
Categories: Anti-Science News
Newfound Genetic Code-in-Code Regulates Stress Response
Discovery sheds light on reason for mismatch between codon numbers and amino acid numbers.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Is Evolution Falsifiable? Doug Axe Versus Biochemist Keith Fox on Premier Radio
As Dr. Axe puts it, "Is it possible to use science to show that something can't happen?"
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Why the Royal Society Meeting Mattered, in a Nutshell
The proceedings confirmed something that advocates of intelligent design, including Stephen Meyer and others, have been saying for years.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
What Drives the Center for Science & Culture? John West Explains
That question has fueled much dark speculation over the years, but the truth is pretty straightforward.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Fact-Check: Reporter John Austin Misrepresents TX Science Standards, Refuses to Correct the Record
Two of our staff persons spent nearly a month in repeated emails and phone calls trying to correct this error.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Michael Skinner on Epigenetics: Stage Three Alert
Dr. Skinner, a Washington State University biologist, reminds us of the old maxim that truth passes through three stages.
Cornelius Hunter
Categories: Anti-Science News
France Censors Down Syndrome Ad Over Abortion
Conscience is a good thing. It is the path to repentance, forgiveness, and healing.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Peppered Moth: How Evolution's Poster Child Became the Rebuttal
It has been called one of the best examples of evolution observed in the wild.
Cornelius Hunter
Categories: Anti-Science News
