Physicists have spent enormous amounts of time and billions of dollars building supercolliders to search for fundamental particles, including the European Large Hadron Collider, which is designed to find the elusive Higgs boson.^1,2 A recent article in Nature asked what kinds of discoveries in biology would garner similar attention—"the biological Higgs."³

A pair of recent reports in the journal Science have added new insight into the incredible design and function of the human brain.^1,2 The studies focused on the cortex—the part of the brain in the forefront that controls behavior, cognitive processes, and perception.

In a recent paper titled "Dissecting Darwinism," Baylor University Medical Center surgeon Joseph Kuhn described serious problems with Darwinian evolution.¹ He first described how life could not possibly have come from chemicals alone, since the information residing in DNA required an input from outside of nature.²