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December 4, 2019
In high school I was a bit of a troublemaker. It wasn’t out of the ordinary for me to be summoned to Mr. Reynolds’ office—the school’s vice principal—for some misdeed or other. After a few office visits, I quickly learned the value of a good story. If convincing enough, I could defray the accusations leveled against me. All I had to do was create plausible deniability.
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November 27, 2019
What would it be like to live in a world without antibiotics? It isn’t that hard to imagine, because antibiotics weren’t readily available for medical use until after World War II. And since that time, widespread availability of antibiotics has revolutionized medicine. However, the ability to practice modern medicine is being threatened because of the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Currently, there exists a pressing need to understand the evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains and to develop new types of antibiotics. Surprisingly, this worthy pursuit has unwittingly stumbled upon evidence for a Creator’s role in the design of biochemical systems.
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November 13, 2019
Are you a Marvel or a DC fan? Do you like the Marvel superheroes better than those who occupy the DC universe? Or is it the other way around for you?
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Intelligent Design
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Evolution
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November 6, 2019
Football players aren’t dumb jocks—though they often have that reputation. Football is a physically demanding sport that requires strength, toughness, agility, and speed. But it is also an intellectually demanding game.
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Neanderthals/Hominids
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Human Uniqueness
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October 30, 2019
I make dad noises now. When I sit down, when I stand up, when I get out of bed, when I get into bed, when I bend over to pick up something from the ground, and when I straighten up again, I find myself involuntarily making noises—grunting, graining sounds.
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Ethics
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Creation & Genesis
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October 23, 2019
True confession: I am a sports talk junkie. It has gotten so bad that sometimes I would rather listen to people talk about the big game than actually watch it on TV.
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Optimization
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Intelligent Design
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Biochemistry
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October 16, 2019
I knew my career as a baseball player would be short-lived when, as a thirteen-year-old, I made the transition from Little League to the Babe Ruth League, which uses official Major League Baseball rules. Suddenly there were a whole lot more rules for me to follow than I ever had to think about in Little League.
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Biochemistry
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Optimization
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Intelligent Design
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October 9, 2019
As a graduate student and a postdoc, I spent countless hours in the lab doing research. Part of my work involved performing biochemical assays—laboratory procedures designed to measure the activities of biomolecules and biochemical systems.
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Intelligent Design
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Optimization
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Biochemistry
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Anthropic Principle
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September 25, 2019
If you could visit a theme park that offered you a chance to view and even interact with real-life dinosaurs, would you go? I think I might. Who wants to swim with dolphins when you can hang out with dinosaurs? Maybe even ride one?
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Synthetic Biology
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Dinosaurs
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Evolution
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September 18, 2019
It was the first time someone I knew died. I was in seventh grade. My classmate’s younger brother and two younger sisters perished in a fire that burned his family’s home to the ground. We lived in a small rural town in West Virginia at the time. Everyone knew each other and the impact of that tragedy reverberated throughout the community.
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Neanderthals/Hominids
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Human Origins
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Image of God
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Human Uniqueness
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Animal Death
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September 4, 2019
To say that biological systems are complicated is an understatement.
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Ecosystems
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Argument from Beauty
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Anthropic Principle
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August 21, 2019
In high school, I spent most Sunday mornings with my family gathered around the TV watching weekly reruns of the old Abbott and Costello movies.
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Challenges to Evolution
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Intelligent Design
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Cells
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August 14, 2019
Imagine you’re flying over the desert, and you notice a pile of rocks down below. Most likely, you would think little of it. But suppose the rocks were arranged to spell out a message. I bet you would conclude that someone had arranged those rocks to communicate something to you and others who might happen to fly over the desert.
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Bioinformatics
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Intelligent Design
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Biochemistry
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August 7, 2019
I feel cold all the time. When I was younger, I was always hot. I needed to be in air conditioning everywhere I went. I could never get the temperature cold enough. But now that I am older, I feel like a frail person who is always chilled, needing to drape myself with a blanket to keep warm.
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Optimization
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Intelligent Design
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Biology
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July 24, 2019
When I was a little kid, my father was chair of the physics department at West Virginia Institute of Technology (WVIT). We lived in faculty housing on the outskirts of the WVIT campus and, as a result, the college grounds became my playground.
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Science
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Philosophy of Science
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Intelligent Design
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July 17, 2019
Most people who follow my work at Reasons to Believe know I question the grand claim of the evolutionary paradigm; namely, that evolutionary processes provide the exclusive explanation for the origin, design, and history of life. In light of my skepticism, friends and foes alike often ask me how I deal with (what many people perceive to be) the compelling evidence for the evolutionary history of life, such as vestigial structures and shared genetic features in genomes.
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Intelligent Design
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Evolution
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Creation vs. Evolution
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