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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 29, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arginine, bacteria, bacterial cell, biosynthesis, DNA, enzymes, genes, lactose, operons, recurring design logic, regulatory systems, RNA polymerase, structural motif, transcriptional hierarchies, tryptophan}

Recurring Design Logic in Operon Regulation

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 29, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As we see in these two examples, the design logic is the same. And yet, these two systems are not evolutionarily related to one another. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, assembly, bacteria, evolution, fact check, flagellum, headlines, Imperial College London, intelligent design, mathematical plausibility, microbiology, propellers, proteins, swimming, undirected processes}

Fact Check: Has a Study Shown “How Bacteria Evolved Powered-Up Propellers”?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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This is a classic case of the media overstating the evidence for some evolutionary claim. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative splicing, amino acids, animation, complexity, development, DNA, eukaryotes, evolution, exons, Francis Crick, genes, intelligent causation, intelligent design, introns, junk DNA, MicroRNAs, mRNA, proteins, Ribosome, spliceosome, splicing}

Evolutionary Obstacles to the Origin of Introns

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 18, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The only type of explanation that adequately accounts for this type of phenomenon is a goal-directed, or intelligent, cause. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anaphase, biology, cancer, cells, chromatids, chromosome, DNA, eukaryotic cell cycle, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, oocytes, spindle assembly checkpoint, tumors}

How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 26, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, biology, Charles Darwin, Clockwork, Darwin's Black Box, designer, DNA replication, Douglas Axe, evolution, hearing, intelligent cause, intelligent design, mechanics, Michael Behe, mind, Undeniable (book)}

Molecular Animations Reveal Exquisite Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 13, 2025

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It is hard to watch these animations and not come away with the strong sense that these systems are the product of a conscious mind. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
April 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apoptosis, Bacillus subtilis, biological systems, chromosome, cortex, dehydration, heat, Salmonella, sporulation, UV radiation}

Sporulation: Another Example of a Transcriptional Hierarchy

_{Jonathan McLatchie
April 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Examples like this suggest the existence of a master-architect behind biological systems. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
April 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial flagella, biology, chromosomes, engineered systems, evolution, gene expression, genes, intelligent design, intelligent mind, proteins, recurring design logic, regulatory systems, RNA polymerase, Salmonella}

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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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anaphase, ATP hydrolysis, cell death, cell division, centrosomes, chromatids, chromatin, chromosomes, condensins, DNA, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinase, mice, mitosis, mitotic cell division, phosphorylation, proteins, teleology, topoisomerase}

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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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 26, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioCosmos, carbohydrates, cell adhesion, complexity, dGRNs, endoplasmic reticulum, evolution, glycans, glycosylation, glycosyltransferases, Golgi apparatus, intelligent causes, intelligent design, kidney cells, nerve cells, probabilistic resources, proteins, signaling, stochastic processes, University of Georgia}

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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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 11, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Bayes factor, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian reasoning, biological design, environmental fitness, Evolution News, ID the Future, intelligent design, physical constants, plausibility, podcast, prior probability, probabilities, theism}

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 ›