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Orphan Proteins Spell Trouble for AlphaFold 2

Proteins are indispensable molecular biological workhorses that come in thousands of different shapes and sizes. Read More ›
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Michael Behe, Ever Patient, Meets Atheist YouTuber TJump

As Behe and TJump discuss Lenski’s experiment, polar bears, and other matters, the commenters are floating in their own strange parallel reality. Read More ›
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Here’s What Happens When Science Goes Woke

When fashion mags go woke, no one cares. Some girls want to wear rags on their heads, well… But science mags? Read More ›
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Mitochondria Promoted to Information Processing Systems

The label “powerhouses of the cell” was too simplistic for the many tasks performed every second by these computing, networking, signaling, regulating wonders. Read More ›
topoisomerase
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Twelve “Shocking” Discoveries for Evolution

Some discoveries might be surprising from an evolutionary perspective, but not necessarily from a perspective of intelligent design. Read More ›
Hexokinase
Image: Hexokinase, an enzyme; the original uploader was TimVickers at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Powerful Protein-Folding Algorithm AlphaFold Foiled by Singletons

We now know that biological information involves far more than just an organism’s proteome. Read More ›
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Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory

Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different. Read More ›
Carl Linnaeus
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Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria

The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal. Read More ›
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Evolution’s Circular Web of Self-Referencing Literature

The formula goes like this: 1. Evolution is true. 2. Here’s how it must have happened. 3. Look, yet more proof of evolution. Read More ›
Galápagos finch
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There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”

What is evolution? In other words, what is core to the theory — and not forfeitable? It’s naturalism. Period. Read More ›

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