Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
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Guillermo Gonzalez
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Denyse O’Leary
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Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Jonathan McLatchie

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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
April 3, 2025
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Transcriptional Hierarchies Exhibit Recurring Design Logic and Challenge Evolution

Jonathan McLatchie
April 3, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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A transcriptional hierarchy is a regulatory system in which genes are expressed in a specific ordered sequence. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
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March 19, 2025
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Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation

Jonathan McLatchie
March 19, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
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February 26, 2025
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Biology
Evolution
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New Paper Examines How the Complexity of Glycan Structures Points to Intelligent Design

Jonathan McLatchie
February 26, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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"This is, of course, important in order for a kidney cell to be and function as a kidney cell, a nerve cell to function as a nerve cell, and so forth." Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
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February 11, 2025
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Biology
Evolution
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When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

Jonathan McLatchie
February 11, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
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January 24, 2025
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Recurring Design Logic in Gene Regulation

Jonathan McLatchie
January 24, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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A feature of biology that has struck me over the years is the phenomenon of recurring design logic, across systems that do not appear to be related by descent. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
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December 24, 2024
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The Cell Division Challenge to Eukaryogenesis — And to Evolution

Jonathan McLatchie
December 24, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The disparity between the eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell division is very surprising given the standard evolutionary view of gradual, incremental evolution. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
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November 26, 2024
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Biology
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The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: An Irreducibly Complex System

Jonathan McLatchie
November 26, 2024
Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design
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Any system that achieves a complex higher-level objective by means of various well-matched interacting components requires foresight to come about. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
November 13, 2024
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Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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ORFanID: An Online Search Engine for Identifying Orfan Genes

Jonathan McLatchie
November 13, 2024
Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The existence of such genes is surprising given the hypothesis of universal common descent. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
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November 12, 2024
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Is Daphnia Evolving at “Lightning Speed”?

Jonathan McLatchie
November 12, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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If this is a prime example of the transformative power of evolution, the evidence is not at all impressive. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
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November 11, 2024
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New Paper Challenges Evolutionary Account of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

Jonathan McLatchie
November 11, 2024
Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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This is a subject of long-standing interest to me, and I have published several articles here. Read More ›

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