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Brian Miller

Date
September 24, 2021

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Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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, biophysicists, cave fish, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, dog breeds, environmental conditions, evolutionary theory, hair, intelligent design, James Shapiro, maize, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, sodium, temperature, yeast}

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

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September 24, 2021

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Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Read More ›

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Date
September 13, 2021

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Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Darwinian theory, empirical science, Indiana Jones, infants, intelligent design, Research, robotics, Science (journal), squirrels, storytelling, UC Berkeley}

Squirrel Acrobatics Amaze Scientists

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September 13, 2021

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The other day, walking down a tree-lined street, we were startled by a sudden crash and scramble at our feet. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 31, 2021

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Anatomy
Engineering
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, adaptation, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design logic, engineers, fitness, fitness landscape, genes, genotype, intelligent design, living systems, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, physiology}

Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

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August 31, 2021

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The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Read More ›

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Date
August 4, 2021

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Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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, archaea, bacteria, beauty, Blaise Pascal, Caltech, Current Biology, diatoms, electron microscope, eukaryotes, Germany, God Hypothesis, Gothic cathedrals, Michael Gross, microbes, Nature Scientific Reports, Poland, purpose}

Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

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August 4, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like little modernist cathedrals. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2021

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Engineering
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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, Brian Miller, cells, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, Jeremy England, podcast, RNA world}

The Origin of Life Was an Engineering Marvel

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July 23, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Brian Miller and Eric Anderson discuss Jeremy England’s origin-of-life ideas and the RNA World hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
July 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, cilia, Darwin's Black Box, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Michael Behe, molecular machines, podcast, The Edge of Evolution}

Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed

_{Jonathan Witt
July 11, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The once seemingly humble cilium is actually even more irreducibly complex than Dr. Behe suggested in his first book. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 7, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Colorado State University, computer science, design triangulation, form, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, materials, motility, Paul Nelson, signals, Steve Laufmann, Systems Biology, timing, Waldean Schulz}

New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum

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July 7, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years. Read More ›

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Date
July 2, 2021

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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, alleles, CELS 2021, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, Darwinian theory, evolution, Germany, hybridization, mutations, Science Advances, Stephen Jay Gould, U.C. Berkeley}

Recasting Darwin Stories into Engineering Models

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July 2, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin gets credit by default for changes in organisms that should be seen instead as engineered products of foresight. Read More ›

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Date
June 21, 2021

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Engineering
Intelligent Design
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, Brian Miller, CELS 2021, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwinians, events, Evolution News, evolutionary biologists, genes, giraffes, historical sciences, horizontal gene transfer, information processing, intelligent design, laptop computer, Mars rover, Michael Behe, modularity, NASA, Paul Nelson, reverse-engineering, robustness, The Blind Watchmaker}

Biology as Engineering: The Way Forward

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June 21, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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A giraffe grows from a zygote to an 18-foot-tall adult while keeping its organs and systems coordinated. Limits to variation is a significant point to clarify. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 14, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, bacteria, biologists, Carolyn Hovde, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, E. coli, engineers, ID the Future, intelligent design, Journal of Bacteriology, Long Term Evolution Experiment, LTEE, Michigan State University, Neo-Darwinism, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho}

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

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June 14, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›