Year: 2021

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Date
December 31, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, Dan Graur, DNA, evolution, floor plan, genomic distances, intelligent design, junk DNA, lncRNAs, ncRNAs, non-coding DNA, non-coding RNA, nuclear organization, nucleolus, nucleus, proteins, RD-SPRITE, RNA, spatial organization, speckles, splicing, transcriptional condensates}

#2 Story of 2021: Caltech Finds Amazing Role for Noncoding DNA

_{Science and Culture
December 31, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There’s more function in the “junk” than imagined. Caltech finds a significant role: maintaining territories and compartments, and guiding components. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 30, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, arthropods, Avalon explosion, binding sites, Cambrian Explosion, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID research program, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, marbles, mutations, nucleotides, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed literature, polynomial, regulatory regions, Springer, Stochastic Processes and Applications, tetrapods, vascular plants, waiting-time problem}

#3 Story of 2021: In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists on “Waiting Time” Problem for Coordinated Mutations

_{Casey Luskin
December 30, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, brain case, chimpanzees, Darwin critics, Darwinists, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hominins, homoplasy, human locomotion, human origins, humans, ID the Future, knuckle-walking, last common ancestor, Miocene apes, rewriting, Sahelanthropus, Science (journal), Sergio Almécija, tree-climbing}

#4 Story of 2021: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 28, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, Ann Gauger, atheism, CELS 2021, Center for Science and Culture, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, materialistic philosophy, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, Ola Hössjer, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

The Year in Review: Three Major Advances for Intelligent Design

_{Brian Miller
December 28, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The situation resembles a poorly constructed dam holding back water that is continuously rising. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 28, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, American Horror Story, Anthony Fauci, Barack Obama, Catholic clergy, Center for Medical Progress, Charles Colson, China, Colorado, conscience rights, COVID-19, David Daleiden, David French, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christians, faith, Francis Collins, human fetus, John Polkinghorne, Judicial Watch, medical conscience, Mother Teresa, National Institutes of Health, Roman Catholic, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, Templeton Prize, The New Yorker, U.S. Presidents, vaccine mandates, Wuhan}

#5 Story of 2021: Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

_{John G. West
December 28, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

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NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 27, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bilharzia, DNA, evolution, IDEA Club, intelligent design, junk DNA, ncRNAs, non-coding DNA, non-coding RNAs, paradigm, parasites, platyhelminth worm, Schistosoma mansoni, sex-determination, South Africa, southern Africa, UC San Diego}

#6 Story of 2021: Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
December 27, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In the past, one of the most common rebuttals to ID was, “If life was designed, then why is over 90 percent of the genome composed of junk DNA?” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 26, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, existence, faith, intelligent design, IntelligentDesign.Org, Internet, life, PragerU, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific Evidence for a Creator, Stephen Meyer, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer Asks: What’s Wrong with Atheism?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 26, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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If there were no God, and no purpose to existence, could we rationally expect a cosmic home like ours? Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
December 26, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Canadians, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, collective unconscious, combinatorial problem, Dan Tawfik, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Douglas Murray, epicycles, God Hypothesis, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Jonathan Van Maren, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, neo-Darwinists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, protein folding, Ptolemy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Weizmann Institute}

#7 Story of 2021: Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

_{Elizabeth Whately
December 26, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, computer program, DNA, evolution, Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven, information, intelligent design, IntelligentDesign.Org, Internet, PragerU, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific Evidence for a Creator, Stephen Meyer, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer Asks: What Is Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Follow the science! It demonstrates that the digitally encoded information in DNA, like all such information, could have arisen from only one source. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 25, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cas9, Casey Luskin, coordination, CRISPR, Darwinian evolution, ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, Feng Zhang, Ferrari, Francis Collins, gene editing, genetic defects, genetic enhancements, George Church, germ line, humans, Huntington’s disease, incrementalism, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jennifer Doudna, John Bodnar, John West, Journal of Theoretical Biology, junk DNA, Michael Behe, natural history, natural selection, predictions, Richard Dawkins, sickle cell disease, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Language of God}

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2021: An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

_{William A. Dembski
December 25, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›