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Casey Luskin

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Casey Luskin
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August 8, 2024
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“That Is a Lot of Evolution”: Study Finds LUCA Required 2,600 Genes

Casey Luskin
August 8, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Technology
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One scientist commented, “LUCA was a very complex cell, with a genome similar to modern bacteria." Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
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August 7, 2024
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Defending Our Literature Survey on Function for Junk DNA

Casey Luskin
August 7, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Our list only scratches the surface of the literature, and you can’t negate the existence of that body of literature through a few complaints. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
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August 5, 2024
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Disease-Associated “Junk” DNA Is Evidence of Function

Casey Luskin
August 5, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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When you mess with the “junk,” the result is problems. That doesn’t sound like junk DNA to me. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
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August 3, 2024
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Origin of Life
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Popular YouTube Science Educator Professes “Emotional” Response to “Amazing” Flagellum

Casey Luskin
August 3, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy, Technology
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In the video, engineer Destin Sandlin explains how he became captivated after watching an online animation of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›
Denis Noble
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Casey Luskin
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July 30, 2024
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Oxford Biologist Denis Noble: “The Fact Is that I Think Neo-Darwinism Is Dead”

Casey Luskin
July 30, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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I respect Denis Noble and in disagreeing with him I do not mean to slight his deep insights into how biology works. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
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July 25, 2024
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On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer

Casey Luskin
July 25, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
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July 24, 2024
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Stephen Meyer’s Extensive Treatment of Evo-Devo 

Casey Luskin
July 24, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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"On arriving at Caltech in 1971, Eric Davidson chose the purple sea urchin as his experimental model system." Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
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July 23, 2024
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Eminent Biologist Gerd Müller Responds to Stephen Meyer’s Arguments from the Joe Rogan Podcast

Casey Luskin
July 23, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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These are important statements that get at the very heart of the viability of evolutionary models. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
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July 18, 2024
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Study Finds Life’s Origin “Required a Surprisingly Short Interval of Geologic Time”

Casey Luskin
July 18, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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It’s certainly not impossible that life was already present on Earth at 4.2 Ga. And if it were true it would have intriguing implications. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
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July 15, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
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Neanderthals Were a Lot More Like Humans than We Realize

Casey Luskin
July 15, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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There’s still much we don’t know and the evidence is sparse — due in part to the fact that Neanderthals probably had a relatively small overall population size. Read More ›

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