Biologist Michael Denton’s new book, The Miracle of the Cell, is out now!

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Denton “Takes the Fine-Tuning Argument to a Whole New Level”

Biologist Michael Denton’s new book, The Miracle of the Cell, is out now! As paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, there are levels of fine-tuning in nature — the cosmic, the planetary, the biological — but Denton takes the discussion of the phenomenon and its implications to a “whole new level.”

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Why Something Instead of Nothing? November 19, Oxford’s John Lennox Goes “Against the Tide”

“I believe that the public need to hear that there is another side,” says Lennox in his new film Against the Tide. The movie debuts in theaters for one night only on Thursday, November 19, 2020.

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Intention, Agency, Even in “Simple” Life Is No Illusion

Is the appearance of “intention and agency” on the part of seemingly simple “specks” of life an illusion or is it real? Listen to a classic episode of ID the Future where biologist Scott Turner sat down with host Robert Crowther to discuss just that question.

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New Research Finds Molecular Machines Are Even More Amazing than Behe Realized

Images of the molecular machines that Michael Behe brought to public attention 21 years ago were dim and fuzzy at the time but were convincing enough then to make a strong case for irreducible complexity. Now, new imaging techniques such as cryo-electron microscopy allow scientists to look at individual parts of the machines at near-atomic resolution.

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Cancel Darwin? No, But Do Recognize How Evolution Boosted Racism

Cancel culture is becoming surreal. Or should I say even more surreal? Plans are afoot, as I suppose was inevitable, to cancel Charles Darwin, whose famed statue adorns the Natural History Museum in London, and even to throw T. H. Huxley under the bus for good measure.

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Calendar  Upcoming Events

Official Launch of The Miracle of the Cell by Michael Denton
October 21, 2020
Online webinar
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Online Event Launching Michael Behe’s Latest Book — A Mousetrap for Darwin
November 21, 2020
Online webinar

Video  Videos

Irreducible complexity, bacterial flagellum and the Type III Secretory System
With Stephen C. Meyer
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Four-Winged Fruit Fly, Eighteen-Winged Dragonfly - Two Hardy Evolutionary Icons
Zombie Science
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Inspired by Richard Dawkins
Conversations with William Dembski

IDTF  ID the Future
  CSC Podcast

A Reading from Michael Denton’s New Book, The Miracle of the Cell
September 30, 2020
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New Book on Thomas Reid’s Common Sense Design Philosophy
September 28, 2020
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Scott Turner on Purpose in Nature, Part 1
September 25, 2020
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