Author: Emily Reeves

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, AlphaFold3, apoptosis, bioinformatic data, cancer, cancer cells, carboxy-terminal domain, cell death, cells, chemotherapy, chromatin, Darwin’s Black Box, DNA, DNA replication, double helix, enzymes, Freed-Hardeman University, intrinsically disordered regions, Irreducible Complexity, isoforms, Joe Deweese, mutants, proteins, replication, TOP2A, TOP2B, topoisomerases, toxic side effects}

How Irreducible Complexity Can Help with Cancer Drug Research

_{Emily Reeves
August 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Medicine

8}

Topoisomerases are molecular machines that play a critical role in resolving DNA tangles and supercoiling generated during DNA replication. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
July 14, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bacillus subtilis, biology, chromosome, ComK, competence, ComS, ComX, crowdsourcing, CSF, developmental state, DNA, DNA expression, environment, exogenous DNA, genes, genetic material, genome, information, intelligent design, mRNA, nutrient status, pheromone, population signals, promoters, regulation, regulatory feedback, Sigma-H, sporulation, Theodosius Dobzhansky, transcription, xenogenic DNA}

Crowdsourcing DNA: Sophisticated Biological Information Processing

_{Emily Reeves
July 14, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

8}

To adapt the words of Theodosius Dobzhansky, I’m persuaded that nothing in biology makes sense except in light of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
July 13, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AbrB, antibiotics, autoregulation, Bacillus subtilis, bacteria, biology, cassettes, cell fate, chemotaxis, CodY, ComK, competence, crowdsourcing, DegU, dense overlapping regulons, DNA, Energy, environmental conditions, exponential growth, feed-forward loops, gene expression, gene regulatory network, graduate school, housekeeping, intelligent design, isoleucine, leucine, metabolic pathways, metabolism, microorganisms, principal investigator, Rok, Sigma-H, single input modules, sporulation, stress, superintellect, transcription, valine, virulence}

To Crowdsource DNA, or Not to Crowdsource DNA: A Microbe’s Decision Pathway

_{Emily Reeves
July 13, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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These are the same type of understandable and logical computation circuits that humans design. What can we learn from observing this similarity? Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
April 28, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, brewer’s yeast, Complex III, complexity, electrochemistry, electrons, elegance, Energy, engineers, flavin adenine dinucleotide, intelligent agent, mitochondrial membrane, mitochondrial respiratory chain, molecular machines, natural selection, organic chemistry, oxygen, protons, quantum tunneling, reverse-engineering, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, semiquinone, ubiquinol}

The Nanoscale Engineering of Complex III

_{Emily Reeves
April 28, 2026

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

15}

If I put on my reverse-engineering hat, this enzyme looks like the work of a designer who deeply understood electrochemistry and quantum tunneling. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal embryos, Cambrian fossils, coelacanth, common ancestor, common ancestry, common characters, common descent, convergent evolution, Darwin's Finches, embryonic stage, environmental pressures, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary predictions, Galápagos finches, geological time, ginkgo trees, horseshoe crabs, hummingbirds, Linnaeus, living fossils, Max Telford, molecular clock, morphology, Nautilus, nightjars, penguins, South Africa, stasis, swallows, swifts, The Tree of Life, The Tree of Life (book), Tree of Life, tuatara, University College London, Wollemi pine}

In Stories from Max Telford’s New Book, Failed Predictions of Common Descent

_{Emily Reeves
March 10, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

9}

Well-documented examples of organisms show remarkable stasis over hundreds of millions of years. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acid, Barbie, beauty, Carl Linnaeus, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, classification, coelacanth, CRISPR, Dogs, evolutionary biology, genealogical ancestry, genes, genetics, goldfish, kangaroos, koalas, marsupial, Matchbox cars, Max Telford, nucleotides, phylogenetics, quolls, Tasmanian wolf, taxonomy, The Tree of Life (book), thylacine, Tim Ingold, Tindell Hopwood, trading cards, University College London}

On Tree of Life, Max Telford Misses the Design Possibility

_{Emily Reeves
March 9, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

9}

I’ll be reviewing the book topically, beginning with the beauty and importance of classification and ending with the implications of belief in the tree of life. Read More ›

DNA sequencing result, visualisation. Researches in genetics

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 15, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AmiGO, biological networks, biology, computers, coordination, Darwinian evolution, data networks, datasets, E. coli, engineering, Gene Ontology, genomics, glycolysis, intelligent design, Introduction to Systems Biology, isoforms, Joel Bader, junk DNA, living systems, long non-coding RNAs, metabolomics, molecular biology, Molecular Systems Biology, mRNA, mutations, optimal design, optimism, proteins, proteomics, reductionist biology, Rube Goldberg, Ruedi Aebersold, smartphones, Systems Biology, technology, transcription network, transcriptomics, Uri Alon, Yuri Lazebnik}

Systems Biology and Intelligent Design: A Natural Fit

_{Emily Reeves
January 15, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

8}

My optimism comes from how powerfully top-down design has succeeded in giving us the complex systems of the modern world. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
December 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, archetype, biological systems, biology, cold-spots, Daphne Major, Darwin's Finches, DNA, evolution, finches, fitness, Galápagos Islands, generalists, genetic variation, haplotype blocks, intelligent design, line, optimality, Pareto front, Pareto trajectory, Peter and Rosemary Grant, polytope, radiation, random mutations, randomness, specialists, systems biologists, trade-offs, triangle, Uppsala University, Uri Alon, Vilfredo Pareto}

Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story for 2025: Optimization and “Evolution Before Our Eyes”

_{Emily Reeves
December 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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On Daphne Major, a Galápagos island, there are three major types of finch food: large seeds, small seeds, and pollen and insects. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
December 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cars, classes, color, CRISPR, DNA, evolution, genome, intelligent design, Nature Microbiology, phylogenetic trees, phylogeny, proteins, shape, t-shirts, thread, viruses}

CRISPR’s Long Tail of Wonder: Too Many Solutions, Too Little Time

_{Emily Reeves
December 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The implication: such a significant amount of diversity raises a challenge for unguided evolutionary mechanisms. Read More ›

Products from polyurethane on the exhibition stand. Industry

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
November 11, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, blind search, China, E. coli, engineering, enzymes, foresight, landfills, plastic, recycling, selection}

Can Protein Design Outpace Directed Evolution in Recycling Plastic?

_{Emily Reeves
November 11, 2025

Computational Sciences, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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What is polyurethane and where is it used? It’s a type of plastic and it is pretty much everywhere: shoes, clothes, yoga mats, mattresses, couch cushions. Read More ›