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New discoveries explore the astonishing efficiency of the cell’s rotary engine ATP synthase, and describe new roles for other motors that deliver ATP.

Have you read Foresight yet by Brazilian biochemist Marcos Eberlin? It has been endorsed by three Nobel Laureates. Find out more about it and order your copy here.

Whether assuming the truth of natural selection in the absence of evidence or branding research that challenges Darwinism as heretical, blasphemous, or harmful, evolutionary biologists prove that their primary motivation in rejecting and disparaging contrary ideas is to preserve a certain academic identity and status deemed orthodox by them.

Many academics, biological scientists, and evolutionary philosophers have joined the anti-human crusade. Most recently, a “manifesto” published in the science journal Human Evolution declares that chimpanzees and bonobos should be considered legal “persons,” “emancipated” from human control, and granted fundamental, legally enforceable “rights.”

In last week’s podcast, philosopher Edward Feser and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor sat down to talk about “neurobabble,” the classic popcorn explanations of how the mind works.

Ann Gauger writes, "From back when I was a sophomore taking biochemistry, one particular event stands out in my memory, perhaps because it was such an odd thing."

Our Intelligent Design Action Network Meeting will be held in Seattle, this coming October 18-19. You might be a scientist, or a physician, an educator, a student, a leader in your church, or simply a thoughtful layperson who has followed the crisis in origins science and wants to do something about it. This is a great opportunity if you want to get busy transforming the culture.

Human-rights activists have castigated China for allowing this organ bazaar for years.

For a major intellectual like this to publicly reject evolutionary theory naturally catches the attention of other major intellectuals.

A bit of machine-learning history helps us see why.

Many people are confused about how to teach about scientific controversies relating to chemical and biological evolution in public schools. Listen to attorney Seth Cooper explain how public school educators should teach about evolution in this new video.

A muddle emerges from textbooks’ unprincipled use of theology.

In a series of lectures and articles, organic chemist James Tour has exposed how research related to the origin of life (OOL) has been scandalously misrepresented to the public.

Yale computer scientist Dave Gelernter’s recent public admission that he’s giving up Darwin continues to make waves.

Want to provoke free discussion on college campuses? Try sending special students in your life links to the entire Science Uprising playlist. It’s available here!

The Venus flytrap, like all carnivorous plants, had no use for its insect-trapping function unless it also had an insect-digesting function. And vice versa.

Discovery Institute co-founder George Gilder convenes national tech summit entering a conversation with leaders in the information and technology industry, centered in Seattle.

On ID the Future, Dr. Meyer encourages students to recognize how pervasive philosophical naturalism is in the academy.

The ability to detect and respond to molecules in the air — olfaction — is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and prioritizing a torrent of input data quickly.

The real danger today is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us.

Dr. West details the landscape of the cultural, moral, legal, even medical “landmarks” that have been worn away under the influence of evolutionary thinking.

Restoring man’s image is functionally equivalent to restoring the tradition of great thought and great writing.

A few years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada conjured a positive right in the Canadian Charter (constitution) to euthanasia.

Darwinians never had a rightful claim to them in the first place.

Marks concedes that a computer code can surprise us — as, for example, when playing the game Go.

The fossil skull was discovered in 2016 by a native goat herder in Ethiopia’s Afar region in sediments beneath a pile of goat dung. It was excavated and described by the famous paleoanthropologist Haile-Selassie, from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

This week, Discovery Institute Press releases the newly revised and expanded edition of Michael Aeschliman’s classic work The Restoration of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism.

Evolutionary detritus is what neo-Darwinian theory would expect, but it’s not what we find.

Dr. Miller speaks about the prison-like “intellectual captivity” imposed on science students who don’t accept prevailing theories of scientific materialism.

Before communication can begin, there must be an intention to communicate.

Recently, Robert J. Marks talked with University of Wisconsin biomedical engineer Yuri Danilov about neuroplasticity (how our brains adapt to new circumstances). As we age, we don't lose neurons, but we may lose connections between neurons. However, exercising your neurons can keep them growing and connecting!

AI is supposed to help us be smart, but when we lose our phones or Internet we feel pretty helpless. Is AI really dumbing us down? The upcoming COSM conference panel "Does AI Make Us Dumb?" includes panelists Oren Etzioni, Robert J. Marks, and Craig Mundie with Matt McIlwain moderating.

Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies talked to Project Veritas about the aftermath of leaving Google. After he released documents that show Google's political bias, Google sent the police to do a "wellness check" on Vorhies.

Is the world purely physical and deterministic? Does that mean free will does not exist? Bradley Center Associate Fellow Eric Holloway says that a "deterministic physical world does not imply that free will doesn't exist."

Machine learning has been around since the 1950s. Through the decades, new ideas have been hailed as the next step in machine learning. However, machines haven't actually been learning at all.

Estranged from God, both art and science become incoherent babble, sliding toward an obsession with the prurient lure of triumphant evil.

We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics.

Orthodoxy and heresy are not synonyms for true and false, and sometimes the truth might lie with the heretics.

On the relationship between religion on science, few scholars have been more influential than the late Ian Barbour, a physicist and theologian.

Are claims about spiritual robots just an intellectual cottage industry for edgy clergy?

The scientific scandal involving pedophile Jeffery Epstein is horrifying, but it’s vital that we understand the real meaning of the collaboration between Epstein and the science elites. The most important meaning in that partnership between Epstein and leading Darwinists and computer scientists isn’t in the depravity of the man and his elite scientific friends.

Want to promote ID as scientist, doctor, donor, writer, educator, student, or ministry leader? The ID Action Network Meeting featuring Michael Denton, David Berlinski, and other ID scholars is just for you. Apply now.

Thank you to Paul Nelson who points out a paper in Advanced Science that is both nutty and not nutty at the same time — nutty, because it concerns walnuts; not nutty, because there is nothing silly or unintelligent about the way walnut shells are designed.

Melanie Phillips is the prominent British journalist whose memoir, Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity, captures the essence of her stance. It’s this: she is pro-sanity. So it is terrific to see her turning her attention to Yale computer scientist David Gelernter and his apostasy from Darwinism.

A recent paper on the evolution of learning “explores how computers could begin to evolve learning in the same way as natural organisms did.” The authors use Avida, a software program for simulating evolution, to support their claim.

Are you a science educator who wants to teach the controversy over biological and chemical evolution in your classroom? Are you looking for advice on best practices for approaching this controversial area, or ready-to-use curricular resources? Today, we launch TeachingEvolution.org, our resource site for objective evolution teaching in public schools and beyond.

With permission from John West and Sarah Chaffee, here is the full text of their interview with staff writer Olga Khazan.

Dr. Miller speaks about the prison-like “intellectual captivity” imposed on science students who don’t accept prevailing theories of scientific materialism.

David Klinghoffer asks, “Why should the reality be hidden from young people? Or from teachers?”

Her article is like many — filled with misdirection. It does, however, make it easier to understand the origins of the bill in Massachusetts.

We invite you to join friends and supporters of Discovery Institute on Wednesday, November 6 for the 6th annual luncheon to benefit Discovery Institute’s Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership. The luncheon will feature a keynote by author, futurist, and publisher of Forbes Magazine Rich Karlgaard.

We are just three weeks away from the COSM Technology Summit in Bellevue, Washington, on October 23-25. Don't miss out on the chance to explore how technology intersects with government regulation, international competitiveness, investing, freedom, and the triumph of the human spirit. Designed by famed technology futurist, George Gilder, COSM will feature many of the great minds of our day for a series of scintillating keynotes, panels, and discussions. Discovery Institute friends receive the special Innovator price of $1,200 ($250 off) when registering with the FLAGSHIP19 coupon code by Oct 11!

Discovery Institute Research Fellow Christopher Rufo joined Andrew Klavan of The Daily Wire to discuss Rufo's recent piece in The Wall Street Journal and how the "New Left Urbanists" seek to use infrastucture to make the masses conform to one vision of how to live. 

Discovery Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith writes in National Review, " the bill is opposed by some opponents of assisted suicide, people who are my friends and whom I respect for their commitment to defending the practice of ethical medicine. This makes no sense to me. The more confidence people have that their loved ones will be cared for properly through palliative and hospice techniques... the less they are likely to turn in desperation to support for assisted suicide."

Discovery Institute's Insiders Tour to Israel was a smashing success. Led by George Gilder, Michael Medved, and Stephen Meyer, attendees participated in lectures and tours of historical sites throughout Israel. They were even treated to a cruise on the Sea of Galillee. Wish you had gone? There's always next year in Jersusalem!

Last week, scientists from several different countries — Israel, Germany, Russia, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. — converged in Jerusalem to share their research findings and to discuss the status of biological theories of life and diversity.

Catch up on all of the Science Uprising episodes and share them with your friends and family. Also be sure to check out the bonus material for each episode, recommended articles and more resources at ScienceUprising.com.

David Attenborough, an agnostic, invokes a rather nice metaphor about a termite mound.

Wesley J. Smith writes: “I fear many will shrug and say, ‘The man wanted to die. What else is there to think about?’”

Almost no one out there thinks that Isaac Asimov's Three Laws could work for truly intelligent artificial intelligence.

Insofar as Peebles’s work helps to strengthen the evidence for a cosmic beginning, it is actually part of the argument for intelligent design.

Biologist Michael Behe could be called the Godfather of modern ID and his story is told in Revolutionary. Watch online for free and learn the story of how one scientist sparked a modern scientific reformation and forever changed the debate over evolution.

An observation by Rowan Williams, that many of us “don’t want to be human,” is a profound insight.

Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.”

If anyone is worrying, it is Coyne and his fellow Darwinists, alarmed at the defection of a stellar intellect like Gelernter.

Dr. Sharon Dirckx, a senior tutor at the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics, has a new video out discussing neuroscience and the philosophy of the mind. Dr. Michael Egnor highly recommends the video and says, "It’s good to see a growing response to the materialist superstition about the mind and the brain from the neuroscience and philosophy community."

One of the don’t-miss speakers at COSM is Babak Parviz, on the Information Theory of Biotech panel. Currently a vice-president at Amazon, he is perhaps best known as the creator of Google Glass, a wearable computer with transparent display.

Subscribers to Mind Matters receive a special $750 discount by using the coupon code MMSAVE750 if they register for COSM by Friday here.

Claims that meditating Buddhist monks could raise their body temperature or slow their metabolism were assumed to be exaggerations for decades. It turns out that monks actually can do just that. The phenomenon has something in common with the placebo effect. The placebo effect demonstrates the power the mind can exert over the body.

Writer Isaac Asimov developed the Three Laws of Robotics, in the hope of guarding against potentially dangerous artificial intelligence. Philosopher Chris Stokes says that these laws don't work. Mind Matters contributors weigh in on the debate.

Recently, neuroscientist Michael Graziano published an essay on the "mystery of the mind." Dr. Michael Egnor responds to the subtitle of Dr. Graziano's essay, which states "Far from being a mystical 'ghost in the machine', consciousness evolved as a practical mental tool and we could engineer it in a robot using these simple guidelines"

By relaunching the series on Facebook we’re hoping to reach out to to viewers in their thirties and younger who have grown up with social media. These “digital natives” get much of their impression of the wider world from the Internet.

In a Five-Day ID Challenge, Michael Behe will field the most asked questions, from general to philosophical and critical.

Against Yale polymath David Gelernter, atheist Jerry Coyne had to resort to engaging the actual arguments.

And a bad year for a 19th-century creation myth. It’s understandable that Darwinists are a bit dejected.

Dr. Marks is obviously right. A sculpture has more information than the raw material from which the image was sculpted.

Michael Aeschliman, author of The Restoration of Man, places C.S. Lewis among a strong line of thinkers critiquing scientism, including the philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human.

Against the backdrop of materialist science’s failure, what accounts for the rise of modern determinist mythologies, led by astrology and transhumanism?

Michael Ruse aims at a surprising conclusion in his new book. Weikart isn’t buying it. Listen in to this podcast on ID the Future as Mike Keas and Weikart discuss.

Michael Egnor continues his series on Aquinas’ Five Ways. He writes regarding the Fourth Way: “[I]t opens a door into seeing God in nature in a way that is quite compelling and beautiful.”

David Klinghoffer writes, “Restoring man’s image is functionally equivalent to restoring the tradition of great thought and great writing.”

Many scoff at the idea of today’s population being traced back to just a pair of individuals. But scientists Ann Gauger and Ola Hössjer decided to test the hypothesis using population genetics. They release the data here.

The animated video, entitled “Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven,” is a nice summary of Meyer’s book-length treatments of the Cambrian Explosion and the DNA engima. And at under six minutes in length, it makes a great conversation starter!

Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez writes, “It’s too bad biologists are not as open about crises in their theories. It’s the sign of a healthy science.”

The brain assists the organization and recall of thoughts by segmenting them and associating them with stimuli. But who is doing the thinking?

A well-crafted short sci-fi film suggests, intentionally or otherwise, maybe not.

John G. West writes, “It isn’t often you have the opportunity to influence millions. This is one of those special times.”

Berlinski’s plea is that the grave contradictions between evolution and evidence at least be forthrightly admitted.

Several prominent members of the ID movement presented talks at the conference, including Stephen Meyer, Ann Gauger, Michael Denton, and Brian Miller.

Amidst chest thumping over neo-Darwinian certainties, doubts are unmistakably on the rise. Most interestingly they seem to be expressed in ways that were unthinkable among Darwin’s previous generation of followers.

To mark Halloween, we are highlighting some appropriate videos from our library and elsewhere this week. This morning the video is about those most iconic of creepy crawlers: Spiders!

Phillip Johnson, law professor emeritus of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, is widely recognized as the godfather of the contemporary intelligent design movement. As the author of several books and numerous articles explaining scientific, legal, and cultural dimension of the debate over ID and Darwinism, Johnson was one of the most prolific authors in the formative years of the movement.

Against Yale polymath David Gelernter, atheist Jerry Coyne had to resort to engaging the actual arguments.

Students who learn the difficult but important skills of examining data are more likely to engage in learning that sets them up for future STEM success.

This year the seminar runs from July 10-18, 2020. Find all relevant information and an easy online application here.

Despite media hysteria, the majority of Americans support teaching the scientific controversy over evolution. Learn more about survey results here.