United Methodist Church officials who vet requests to sponsor display tables at the UMC May 2016 General Conference in Portland, Ore., have rejected Discovery Institute’s application despite its compliance with denomination guidelines.

The rejection and subsequent correspondence between the UMC and Discovery Institute shows denomination officials and the conference vetting team aren’t adhering to church policy, Discovery leaders say. 

Two recent studies about neurons in the brain highlight the complexity of humans’ ability to think and react to their environment and provide further evidence of divine design, despite researchers’ efforts to explain it away.

The three scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry didn’t rely on intelligent design for their discovery of DNA repair mechanisms. But they made a design inference about genetic information, and that’s just as good, according to the Discovery Institute.

Scientists sequencing the California two-spot octopus, a cephalopod mollusk, expected a genome closely related to other creatures in its Mollusca phylum, among them the giant squid, the cuttlefish, and the coiled shelled nautilus.

What they found was unlike any other creature on earth. Not exactly an alien, but certainly alien to standard expectations. And that posed a conundrum for evolutionary biologists hard-pressed to explain this amazing creature’s origins.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) study announced July 30 in the science journal Nature invalidates a long-held idea about how muscle cells respond to meet energy demands. The discovery adds further support for intelligent design theory.

A build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel emissions will render dating by radiocarbon analysis unreliable in the next 30 years, according to a paper recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).

Advances in science, instead of buttressing key neo-Darwinian predictions on the origin and complexity of life, threaten to undermine them to the point of collapse, says scientist, philosopher, and clergyman Kirk Durston.

According to Darwinian theory, the genetic information allowing complex life forms to function began at zero and with 3.8 billion years of random mutation and natural selection, encoded life in all its diversity. Darwinism predicts the functional information of life must increase over time.