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Casey Lusken, in ENV, gives tribute to a great scientist and ID advocate Dr. Phillip Skell.

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On ID the Future...Dr. Donald L. Ewert continues to explain why the vertebrate adaptive immune system does not use "random" or "chance" processes like Darwinian evolution to generate antibody diversity. Instead, he argues that the immune system is intelligently designed. Listen in as Dr. Ewert shares one of the most interesting stories in science, the generation of antibody diversity.

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As reported on Uncommom Descent...Michael Behe is currently on a speaking tour around the UK (tour website here), organised by the newly founded Centre for ID UK. Last night, the Glasgow lecture was entitled "Darwin or Design - What Does the Science Really Say?" As is to be expected, Behe spoke both articulately and persuasively, developing a powerful cumulative positive case for design based on the nanotechnology which pervades life at the level of the cellular world. Behe is a very gifted speaker, especially when it comes to conveying his scientific ideas and concepts to an audience without a scientific background.

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Online videos of the debate between renowned atheist Christopher Hitchens and intelligent design proponent William Dembski over God's existence were in such high demand Monday that the school behind the event said it had to relocate the content to another server.

Mary Carl Finkelstein, special assignments coordinator at Prestonwood Christian Academy and organizer of the debate, told The Christian Post that over 5,000 viewers accessed the online videos Monday morning, causing the school to search for a different server to better host the videos.

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The Baptist Press reports on the debate. Intelligent Design proponent William Dembski and famed atheist Christopher Hitchens disputed the existence of a benevolent God in a recent debate.

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The word "proves" may be a stretch, but a cumulative case continues to be built.

As reported in Uncommon Descent, seeing is believing.. Over at Creation.com, Brian Thomas has posted a fascinating article entitled, ATP synthase: majestic molecular machine made by a mastermind. ATP synthase is an enzyme that synthesizes an energy-rich compound, ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which is used by almost every biochemical process in the body. ATP synthase is also the world's tiniest rotary motor, and it operates at near 100% efficiency, which is far greater than that of any man-made motor. In his article, Brian Thomas does an excellent job of describing the workings of this enzyme and of exposing the inadequacies of proposed evolutionary explanations for its origin.

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As reported in Medical Daily, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, applying a state-of-the-art imaging system to brain-tissue samples from mice, have been able to quickly and accurately locate and count the myriad connections between nerve cells in unprecedented detail, as well as to capture and catalog those connections' surprising variety.

Observed in a new method called array tomography, the brain's overall complexity is almost beyond belief, said Stephen Smith, PhD, professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford University. "One synapse, by itself, is more like a microprocessor - with both memory-storage and information-processing elements - than a mere on/off switch. In fact, one synapse may contain on the order of 1,000 molecular-scale switches. A single human brain has more switches than all the computers and routers and Internet connections on Earth," he said.

"In a human, there are more than 125 trillion synapses just in the cerebral cortex alone," said Smith. That's roughly equal to the number of stars in 1,500 Milky Way galaxies, he noted.

Mark Hartwig, long time ID advocate, commented that "Probably the only thing more complex than this will be Darwinists' explanation of how a mindless process and time produced such stunning structures."

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On the Uncommon Descent web site, Gil Dodgen opines on the Dembski-Hitchens debate in Texas.

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According to reviewer Dora the new online game CellCraft "is one part resource management, one part puzzle, one part strategy, and even one part funny. Oh, and did I mention? It's(*gasp!*)... educational!"

If you are looking for a fun way to teach your kids (or yourself) about the complexity and of the cell give this new online game a try. It can be played at the popular Kongragate website or you can download a copy to your computer from the CellCraft game website.

Dembski and Hitchens will debate the existence of a good God during a conference for the Biblical Worldview Institute at Prestonwood Christian Academy in Plano, Texas. Click here for the flyer...

William Dembski, research professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, will spar with "anti-theist" Christopher Hitchens, known as a champion of the "new atheism," Nov. 18th.

Dembski and Hitchens will debate the existence of a good God during a conference for the Biblical Worldview Institute at Prestonwood Christian Academy in Plano, Texas. The debate will be hosted in the worship center at Prestonwood Baptist Church from 8:40 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. It will also be webcast on www.pcawebcast.com.

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Jay Richards writes in The American about Stephen Hawkings "nothing". Gravity seems to be a placeholder for a personal, eternal, intelligent designer. But, from whence came gravity? Using equivocal definitions of nothing gets you nowhere.

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