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Read William Dembski's talk delivered at CSICOP's Fourth World Skeptics Conference in Burbank, California, 21 June 2002, at a discussion titled "Evolution and Intelligent Design." ...[more]

Keeling and Palmer find that insertions transmitted between distantly related genes by lateral transfer and fine-scale recombination may result in a mosaic gene which potentially blurs the ''tree of life'' beyond the extent to which wholegene lateral transfer is already known to confound evolutionary reconstruction ... [more]

William Dembski makes an additional response to his critic Richard Wein...[more]

A new study reveals that there is an intimate coupling between structural dynamics and function in RNA ... [more]

Darel R. Finley gives us a "New Proposal for Identifying Intelligence" ...[more]

MESA: Monotonic Evolutionary Simulation Algorithm: a Java program that models evolutionary searches which employ monotonic smooth fitness gradients. Its aim is to determine the degree to which fitness perturbation and variable coupling impede evolutionary searches...[more]

Already number one on Amazon.com, Stephen Wolfram hopes to revolutionize the world with: "A New Kind of Science" ... [more]

A new study on altruism in insects finds that the genes regulating such behavior are not sufficient to explain the origin of social behavior; they conclude that "unequivocal evidence that eusociality evolved through the action of kin-selected altruistic genes is still lacking"...[more]

Researchers seek a practial diagnostic screen for searching random libraries for folded peptides...[more]