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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 16, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Arabidopsis, auxin, breeders, China, Current Biology, genes, growth hormone, high school, intelligent design, phosphate, rice, roots, soil, wild type}

How Roots Become Jackhammers

_{David Coppedge
August 16, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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How do flimsy, tiny roots get through hard soil? A root tip hitting hardpan switches on a flurry of signals that get to work on anchorage and penetration. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 12, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiologists, astrobiology, atmosphere, Cassini mission, column water vapor, Enceladus, Eric Hedin, geysers, habitability, intelligent design, iron, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, magnetic field, magnetometer, Mars, Michael Denton, Saturn, Science Advances, temperature, Titan, Voyager spacecraft, Yellowstone}

Enceladus as a Habitability Test

_{David Coppedge
August 12, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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High up on the astrobiologists’ bucket list for further exploration is a little moon of Saturn. How lively could it be at Enceladus? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, benzene, biosphere, California, carbon, Cassini mission, continents, Europa, European Space Agency, Ganymede, habitability, Huygens probe, hydrocarbons, hydrogen, lakes, magnetic field, methane, Michael Denton, NASA, nitrogen, organic molecules, sand dunes, Saturn, temperature, The Privileged Planet, Titan, water, weather}

Saturn’s Moon Titan as a Habitability Test

_{David Coppedge
July 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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It’s called one of the most earthlike environments in the solar system with an atmosphere and organic molecules. How does it measure up compared to Earth? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, bats, canids, cheetahs, clicks, Current Biology, Fantasia, foxes, hippos, humans, Imperial College London, kinetic energy, lizards, mammals, Mass, morphology, mouse, movement, New Scientist, PNAS, skull, speed, University of London, University of Michigan, University of New Hampshire, water}

Hippos, Cheetahs, Bats: Mammals Master Physics

_{David Coppedge
July 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Whether sleek, lumbering, or aerobatic, mammals are well equipped with the know-how to push their movements to the limits of the possible. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cell division, centromere, checkpoints, chromatid, chromosomes, cohesin, cowboys, Current Biology, DNA, error correction, evolution, foresight, function, intelligent design, kinetics, meiosis, NASA, PNAS, sexual reproduction, tubulin}

Springs, Glues, and Rocket Launchers in Cell Division

_{David Coppedge
July 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The molecules of life do much more than convey information. They combine and impose physical forces on each other in intricate, functional ways. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, anaphase, Babylonians, bacterial flagellum, cell biology, cell division, centrosomes, Chinese, chromosomes, cowboys, cows, intelligent design, interphase, metaphase, Michael Behe, mitosis, molecules, outboard motor, PNAS, prophase, regulators, Romans, scientism, Taiwan, telophase}

Herding Chromosomes in the Mitosis Corral

_{David Coppedge
July 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The molecules of life do much more than convey information. They combine and impose physical forces on each other in intricate, functional ways. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 27, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bananas, biofluorescence, bioluminescence, corals, Darwinism, Design Inference, flowers, fluorescence, honeybees, intelligent design, jellyfish, parrots, photonic crystals, PNAS, pollinators, radiation, scorpions, structural color, terrestrial animals, tetrapods}

Fluorescent Animals: Can They Be Darwinized?

_{David Coppedge
June 27, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Many animals and plants exhibit fluorescence, changing color in ultraviolet light. Whether this property is adaptive has never been thoroughly investigated. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, capitalists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, eugenics, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Francis Galton, Freudianism, J.P. Moreland, Marxism, Marxists, Nancy Pearcey, Nazism, Neil Thomas, Quarterly Review of Biology}

Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

_{David Coppedge
June 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, brood, cicadas, Corryn Wetzel, Darwinian theory, evolution, functional coherence, Günter Bechly, insects, intelligent design, Nature Communications, new york, On the Origin of Species, personification, prime numbers, stem, synchronization, Texas, urine}

Trillions of Cicadas Sing of Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
May 29, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Eastern U.S. states will see a natural phenomenon that hasn’t occurred for many years: the coordinated emergence of two broods of noisy cicadas. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 28, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Botany
Geology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Paleontology
Physics
Tagged
, Babylonians, Bible, Forensics, history, intelligent causes, intelligent design, Jeremiah, Jerusalem, pottery, SETI, stratigraphy, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Intelligent Design in Action: Pattern Matching in Archaeology

_{David Coppedge
May 28, 2024

Archaeology, Botany, Geology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Paleontology, Physics

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Our uniform experience of intelligent causes allows us to make inferences about design, even without knowing the identity of the designers. Read More ›