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James Barham asks important questions on design, teleology and the considers the notion of "thinking matter" ... [more]

The forthcoming book Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2004. The book, edited by Michael Ruse and William Dembski will feature contributions from Stuart Kauffman, Francisco Ayala, Elliott Sober, Paul Davies, Walter Bradley, Michael Behe and others ...[more]

Lesley Pray argues that new genome-scale approaches expose the wiring of multiprotein complexes on a cellular scale ...[more]

Cooper, Rozen and Lenski find parallel changes in the gene expression of twelve populations of Escherichia coli after 20,000 generations of evolution ... [more]

Erik Larson offers a critique of what he calls Ray Kurzweil's impossible vision regarding the future of AI and technology ...[more]

Robert Koons argues that the reality of mental causation and personal agency cannot be made to square with the modernist doctrine of physicalism...[more]

Micah Sparacio argues for a form of Mental Realism that rejects the causal closure thesis of the physical in favor of a first-class mental ontology...[more]

ISCID announces its October - December issue of Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design (PCID): featuring essays by Dermott J. Mullan, William Dembski, Granville Sewell, Karl D. Stephan, and others...[more]

Paul Davies contends that the key to understanding life will be found not in primordial sludge, but in the nanotechnology of the living cell ... [more]

Read ISCID's End of the Year Letter with reflections on our first year successes, next year's goals and practical steps that you can take to help ISCID reach its goals...[more]

For some geneticists, the most intriguing aspect of the mouse genome lies in its junk DNA ... [more]

Phillip L. Engle argues that there is no formulation of the evolutionary theory of neo-Darwinism that can account for the fact of symmetry in evolution ... [more]

Dermott J. Mullan considers the probabilities of randomly assembling a primitive cell on Earth ... [more]

Alexei Fedorov, Amir Feisal Merican, and Walter Gilbert find "strong evidence for ancestral introns predating the animal-plant-fungal divergence, and in complete opposition to any expectations based on random insertion" ... [more]

David Searles considers whether linguistics can extend our understanding of DNA, the language of life, and whether "the methods developed for analysing languages [can] be applied to molecular biology" ... [more]