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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Brian DeVries, Brian Miller, Cambridge, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, education, educators, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary biology, ID research program, intelligent design, Ivy League, Jonathan McLatchie, scientists, South America, students, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design}

Help Us Mentor the Next Generation of Intelligent Design Scientists and Scholars

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April 15, 2025

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Emily Reeves, a PhD staff scientist at Discovery Institute, has mentored an Ivy League postdoc in the field of molecular biology for the past five years. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anger, David Klinghoffer, ENCODE, Endogenous retroviruses, ERVs, Francis Collins, Human Genome Project, Internet, Jonathan McLatchie, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Long Story Short, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, Rob Sheldon, science stopper, The Greatest Show on Earth}

New “Long Story Short” Video Addresses Challenges from Junk DNA Defenders

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January 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Of course, die-hard evolution defenders were not going to take these major shifts in thinking about “junk DNA” sitting down. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. elegans, David Coppedge, evolution, gene regulation, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, microRNA, miRNA, National Cancer Institute, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, Richard Sternberg, roundworm, The Conversation, The Myth of Junk DNA, William A. Dembski}

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”

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January 1, 2025

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That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. elegans, David Coppedge, evolution, gene regulation, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, microRNA, miRNA, National Cancer Institute, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, Richard Sternberg, roundworm, The Conversation, The Myth of Junk DNA, William A. Dembski}

2024 Nobel Prize Awarded for the Discovery of Function for a Type of “Junk DNA”

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December 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, amino acids, ancestors, chimpanzees, Denisovans, DNA, human origins, humans, Live Science, Neanderthals}

Reader Asks: What Is Denisovan DNA?

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December 12, 2024

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The “Denisovans” are kind of a fictional group from which we only have a few fragmented bone specimens. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Darwin's Finches, Darwinists, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, education, Eugenie Scott, hydrogen peroxide, Icons of Evolution, John West, Jonathan Wells, mutations, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Stephen J. Iacoboni, T.H. Huxley, Theodosius Dobzhansky, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Washington State, William A. Dembski, Yale University}

Remembering a Colleague, Mentor, and Friend: Jonathan Wells

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September 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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To get ready for a research stint he shaved his beard and used hydrogen peroxide to dye his hair bleach blond to avoid being recognized. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common descent, convergent evolution, DNA, evolution, India, James Shapiro, Lee Spetner, Madagascar, monarch butterfly, natural genetic engineering, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, neo-Darwinian theory, Not by Chance, sound waves, The Evolution Revolution}

Lee Spetner’s Nonrandom Evolutionary Hypothesis

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August 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We were saddened to learn of the passing of Lee Spetner, MIT-trained physicist. Dr. Spetner was 91 years old and lived in Jerusalem. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, genome, intelligent design, James Shapiro, junk DNA, Michael Behe, National Association of Scholars, Neo-Darwinism, University of Chicago}

James Shapiro: Intelligent Design “Has a Valid Point with Regard to the … Limits of Neo-Darwinism”

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August 15, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I’m content to be grateful to Dr. Shapiro as a non-ID scientist who recognizes something ID has gotten right. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 14, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Geology
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, aliens, atmosphere, continents, Drake equation, Enceladus, extraterrestrial intelligence, habitability, intelligent design, magnetic field, Mars, Nautilus, oceans, plate tectonics, Scientific Reports, solar system, The Privileged Planet, Titan}

Study: Geological Habitability Parameters Imply Earth is Special and Advanced Life Extremely Rare

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August 14, 2024

Fine-tuning, Geology, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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One thing that is likely to get some pushback is the study’s claim that modern-style plate tectonics on Earth did not commence until the Neoproterozoic. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative splicing, body plans, brain, diseases, evolution, function, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, Live Science, monkeys, mutations, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, Scientific American}

How “Junk” DNA Got Its Function: Evolutionary Tales Fail to Convince

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August 9, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Earlier this year there was a flurry of stories about how “junk DNA” may explain why humans don’t have tails. Read More ›