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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adenosine triphosphate, amino acids, ATP, causal circularity, cellular respiration, citric acid cycle, complexity, electron transport chain, enzymes, evolution, glycolysis, intelligent design, mind, oxidative phosphorylation, oxygen, unguided evolution, water}

Challenges to the Evolutionary Origins of the Glycolytic Pathway

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 20, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The complexity and engineering sophistication comport much better with the hypothesis of design. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
September 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, "poor design", biological systems, cells, Darwinian evolution, development, egg, embryo, foresight, fruit flies, information flow, intelligent design, optimality, optimization, Princeton University}

Optimization: A Theoretical Principle That Is Predictive for Biology

_{Emily Reeves
September 19, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Are biological mechanisms optimized, or do they function poorly, evidence of their “poor design”? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Energy, insects, intelligent design, spiders, vertebrates}

Intelligent Design — In Miniature

_{Eric Hedin
September 10, 2024

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Small vertebrates may be a thousand times larger than single-cell organisms, but they occupy a region of parameter space that presents unique properties. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
July 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bears, biologists, deletions, diploidal genome, evolution, genera, geneticists, insertions, intelligent design, mutations, neo-Darwinian theory, Panda's Thumb, phenotype, researchers, species, stasis}

More on the Panda’s Thumb: Imperfection or Masterpiece?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
July 21, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I would like to express my appreciation as a geneticist and biologist for the work on the molecular investigations and many other topics in the panda’s biology. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian process, Eric Hedin, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, organisms, podcast, wakefulness}

Sleeping and Waking: A Designer’s Gift

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 20, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Some scientists have posited that organisms came prepackaged to sleep, and that we only needed to evolve wakefulness. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, bleeding, body, consciousness, Cornell University, foresight, intelligent design, living cell, matter, mind, Minding the Brain, molecules, naturalism, nervous system, neurons, panpsychism, sleep, wakefulness}

Consciousness — At Odds with the Flesh

_{Eric Hedin
July 16, 2024

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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The inescapable conclusion from studying the need for sleep is that the body cannot survive without a regular reprieve from effects of this system on the body. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", evolution, fitness, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, podcast, risk, sleep, systems, unconsciousness}

Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 15, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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“Survival of the unconscious…the most unconscious person wins…that just doesn’t seem to fit at all with an evolutionary survival of the fittest paradigm.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 11, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bacteria, books, ID the Future, intelligent design, MIT, Texas A&M}

Emily Reeves on the Intersection of Biology and Engineering

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 11, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Dr. Reeves explains the importance of using engineering principles to understand biological systems. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 1, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, beauty, engineers, fungi, intelligent design, nature, origami, Science (journal), Stanford University, Tanzania, The New Yorker}

Scientist Discovers a Protist’s “Cellular Origami” — The First Known Case

_{Daniel Witt
July 1, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You will probably not be surprised to hear that Dr. Prakash is an engineer as well as a biologist. This is predictable. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 28, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptability, dogmatism, Eric Anderson, evolution, fish, guppies, ID the Future, intelligent design, Richard Dawkins, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

The Engineered Adaptability of the Humble Guppy

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 28, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When a scientist switches from an evolutionary lens to an engineering one, it may be the mother of all eureka moments. Read More ›