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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 7, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, DNA, evolution, IDEA Club, intelligent design, junk DNA, ncRNAs, non-coding DNA, non-coding RNAs, paradigm, parasites, South Africa, UC San Diego}

Scientific Paper on Repetitive Elements Slams “Junk DNA”

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October 7, 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
Casey Luskin

Date
October 6, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Coast to Coast AM, David Klinghoffer, dentists, embryo, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fish, fraud, George Noory, gills, ontogeny, phylogeny, Science (journal), UC Berkeley}

So, Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny? Nope

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October 6, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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When I was younger, my family lived next-door to a retired dentist named Max. Before entering dentistry, Max studied biology at UC Berkeley. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 17, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brazil, Central America, evolution, evolutionary biology, human origins, intelligent design, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Return of the God Hypothesis, São Paulo, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars}

Major “Ibero-American Intelligent Design Congress” Reaches the Spanish-Speaking World

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September 17, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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I had fantastic translation assistance from a Summer Seminar alumnus and valued colleague, Quezia Salgado, and my talk went well. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, chemotaxis, complexity, computer science, degradation, elegance, engineers, evolution, evolutionary biologists, gears, gene expression, hook, intelligent design, peer-reviewed literature, proteins, Science (journal), stator, Waldean Schulz}

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

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September 10, 2021

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Annual Review of Genetics, DNA, evolution, hierarchy, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature Reviews Genetics, neo-Darwinian theory, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, RNA, universal common ancestry}

Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design

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September 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, computer programmers, computer scientists, creationism, Debating Darwin's Doubt, dependency graph, evolution, genetic data, intelligent design, Neo-Darwinism, phylogenetic analysis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Winston Ewert}

Does Tree-Like Data Refute Intelligent Design?

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September 8, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Computer scientist Winston Ewert applied the concept of “common design” to propose a “dependency graph” model of organismal relationships. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 7, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, Biological Reviews, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, evolutionary tree, Genome Research, hierarchy, intelligent design, mammals, Metazoa, New Scientist, Precambrian, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, universal common ancestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

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September 7, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 3, 2021

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, common design, creationists, Darwin Day, Darwinian evolution, DNA, evolutionary biologists, genes, hierarchy, Paul Nelson, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, Tree of Life, YouTube videos}

Dawkins: A “Perfect Hierarchy” in the Tree of Life?

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September 3, 2021

Biology, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The “hierarchy” that Dawkins is referring to in the video is the tree of life that evolutionary biologists can generate. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animation, apoptosis, citric acid cycle, Darwinism, diabetes, DNA, DNA polymerase, electron transport chain, intelligent design, molecular machines, TED talk, Veritasium, YouTube videos}

Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a “Four-Legged Whale”

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September 1, 2021

Evolution, Science Reporting

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Perhaps this organism had four legs. Perhaps it had flippers. Perhaps it was closely related to whales. Perhaps it has nothing to do with whales. Read More ›