Darwin's God

Not. Transposable elements just don’t make sense. These so-called “jumping genes” are segments of junk DNA that insert themselves at ran...

Evolution Recruits and Deploys Genes Last time we noted the teleological ideas and language used to describe the hypothetical evolution...

An Ad Hoc, Capricious Creation When John Ray refused to conform to the 1662 Act of Uniformity—aimed mainly at the Puritans—and so was fo...

Secrets Of The Trade With a small army of evolutionists working on it, and several National Science Foundation grants funding it, the Un...

Follow the Evidence When Eric Metaxas wrote a Christmas Day piece in the Wall Street Journal about how science is lending support to m...

Evolutionists Don’t Know What They’re Doing In Chapter 7 of The Edge of Evolution , Michael Behe explained why protein-protein interacti...

Beyond Lineage-Specific Biology The fundamental unit of life is the cell and there are many different types of cells. In humans, for exa...

More Theoretical Complexity New research out of the University of Pennsylvania reveals yet another fascinating aspect of gene expressio...

Another Astonishing Design We have discussed some amazing examples of how species control their color ( here and here , for example) an...

When Will They Cry Uncle? It is no secret that nature’s process of photosynthesis—which harnesses the energy in sunlight—is astonishingl...

More Lineage Specific Biology Some proteins are fluorescent—shine a light on them and they glow. And as usual nature gives us all kinds ...

Roll Over Voltaire Three hundred years ago Gottfried Leibniz said we live in the best of all possible worlds but today Princeton’s worl...

When Are These Surprises Going to Stop? Remember when microRNA burst onto the scene a few years back and revolutionized our knowledge of...

Making Evolution Even More Ridiculous That new paper on the circadian clock protein is not only an example of how evolution lacks theor...

Getting Destroyed The brilliant Isaac Newton could harmonize Aristotle’s super- and sub-lunar worlds, show that nature’s laws were unive...

Major Problems When the cell makes a copy of a segment of DNA the result is called RNA. This long, thin molecule has many roles, includi...

This is Getting Ridiculous New research on how certain transcription factors work together is causing major problems for the theory of ...

Plants use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen while animals use oxygen and produce carbon dioxide. It’s one of nature’s many Huttonian cycl...

You may recall that objects have particular colors because, at the molecular level, light rays at certain frequencies (corresponding to ce...

New research is providing a fascinating new perspective on fine-tuning and a three hundred year old debate. First for the context. When Isa...