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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Biomimetics, cockroaches, communication, control, electronics, evolutionary processes, hardware, heat dissipation, intelligent design, International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, legs, obstacles, robot, sensors, structure, Stuart Burgess, surfaces}

Paper Digest: A Robot Is Built Using Cockroach Biomimicry

_{Emily Reeves
October 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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The understanding of what it takes to build complex systems sheds light on the causal hurdles that would be necessary for evolutionary processes to overcome. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 25, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, actuators, appendix, biological systems, biomimicry, blood, engineered systems, human eye, intelligent design, junk DNA, muscles, organisms, simplicity, skin, Stuart C. Burgess}

Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology

_{Emily Reeves
October 25, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, antibiotics, COVID-19, Douglas Axe, genetic material, genomes, H1N1, intelligent design, John C. Sanford, Michael Behe, mortality, mutations, pandemic, population, RNA, Stephen Meyer, Swine Flu, viruses, Winston Ewert}

Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

_{Emily Reeves
October 3, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemical pathways, biological systems, biologists, cell membrane, cells, engineers, formalism, Gregory T. Reeves, intelligent design, nucleus, Paper Digest, protein synthesis, Ribosome, Systems Biology}

Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System

_{Emily Reeves
October 2, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, airfoil, automobiles, beetle, cars, constraints, eyes, functional requirements, gills, intelligent design, Jaguar, Mustang, Paper Digest, peer-reviewed literature, Stuart C. Burgess, symmetry, tail}

Paper Digest: Application of Animal Forms in Auto Styling

_{Emily Reeves
September 29, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The preeminence of design in nature and the utility of mimicking natural designs is a concept championed by the intelligent design community. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
June 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Antarctic icefish, antifreeze protein, BIO-Complexity, blood, blood viscosity, capillaries, Channichthydiae, fish, freezing, glycoprotein, Gregory Sloop, heart, hemoglobin, hemoglobinless blood, human blood, icefish, marine biology, Montana, oxygen, physicians, Southern Ocean, temperatures, Titanic, vasculature}

Blood Viscosity and Freezing Temperatures — A Titanic Problem

_{Emily Reeves
June 22, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Blood viscosity is the technical reason why Jack froze in less than 23 minutes, but icefish can survive for 15 years in water of a freezing temperature. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, epigenetics, evolution, gene expression, genes, Hox genes, melting pot, mitochondrial DNA, Müller cells, On the Origin of Species, optic nerve, orphan genes, retina, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, Technion, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene, unit of selection}

New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU

_{Emily Reeves
May 2, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
February 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, biochemists, design triangulation, electricity, electron transfer, electron transport chain, evolution, evolutionary theory, homology, Hoover Dam, hydrophobic, Institute of Science and Technology, intelligent design, Leonid Sazanov, membrane lipids, molecular machines, Nanoscale, Paul Nelson, proteins, proton pumps, Research, water, water wires}

An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

_{Emily Reeves
February 23, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
November 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Antarctic icefish, antifreeze protein, BIO-Complexity, blood, blood viscosity, capillaries, Channichthydiae, fish, freezing, glycoprotein, Gregory Sloop, heart, hemoglobin, hemoglobinless blood, human blood, icefish, Montana, oxygen, physician, physicians, Southern Ocean, temperatures, Titanic, vasculature}

Without Hemoglobin, How Do Icefish Survive the Cold? By Design

_{Emily Reeves
November 1, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Icefish, aka the family Channichthydiae, survive at 0oC in the Southern Ocean by maintaining blood viscosity at the set point of 3.27 centipoise. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, common ancestry, Erika, evolution, Gutsick Gibbon, intelligent design, phylogenetics, separate ancestry, synapomorphies, YouTube videos}

Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science! Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge

_{Emily Reeves
August 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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What ID proponents are encouraging in the greater scientific community is honesty about the fact that both design and ancestry can create genetic similarity. Read More ›