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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 13, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common ancestry, constraints, design logic, evolution, fossil record, four-bar linkage, intelligent design, jaws, macroevolution, taxonomy, undirected evolution}

Studies on Labrid Fish Confirm Operational Gravity Well Model for Adaptation

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October 13, 2021

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The extent to which the authors recognize the implications of their conclusions is difficult to say. Read More ›

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Brian Miller

Date
October 4, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body size, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Drosophila, eggs, embryo, fruit flies, intelligent design, macromutations, metabolism, natural genetic engineering, phenotype, phenotypic plasticity, transposable elements}

Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

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October 4, 2021

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The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 25, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotics, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, environmental conditions, evolution, information, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, neo-Darwinian evolution, physiology, sensors, waiting-time problem}

The Design Connection in Biological Tracking Systems

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September 25, 2021

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If organisms resulted from haphazard undirected processes, their design constraints would be few and highly flexible. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biophysicists, cave fish, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, dog breeds, environmental conditions, evolutionary theory, hair, intelligent design, James Shapiro, maize, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, sodium, temperature, yeast}

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

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September 24, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 20, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, brain, cave fish, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, evolution, hurricane, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Mother Nature, natural selection, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, William Paley}

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Has Left a Legacy of Confusion over Biological Adaptation

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September 20, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 31, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design logic, engineers, fitness, fitness landscape, genes, genotype, intelligent design, living systems, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, physiology}

Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

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August 31, 2021

Anatomy, Engineering, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, ATP synthase, biologists, Darwin Devolves, design logic, design motifs, Emily Reeves, engineers, evolutionary theory, fish, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Michael Behe, Rube Goldberg, silicon, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, vertebrate eye}

How Engineers Helped Save Biology from Evolutionary Theory

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August 30, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Design motifs such as four-bar linkages and control systems must meet exacting requirements whether implemented in a space shuttle or a fish. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", bioinformatics, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, junk DNA, Nathan Lents, optimality, pelvis, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia}

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

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August 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, evolution, Georges Cuvier, intelligent design, materialism, MIT Press, paleontologists, somatic cells, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, Systems Biology, teleology}

The Return of Teleology to Biology

_{Brian Miller
August 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 23, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, emergence, evolutionary mechanism, intelligent design, Michael Behe, proteins, Reductionism, Stephen Meyer, Systems Biology}

End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

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August 23, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Read More ›