Category: Evolution | Page 71 | Science and Culture Today

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Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, agnostics, Alfred Russel Wallace, angels, beauty, cells, Charles Darwin, Darwinians, evolution, gods, human race, intelligence, intelligent beings, intelligent design, materialism, materialists, Michael Flannery, mind, nature, Nature's Prophet, power, purpose, spirits, universe, veins, Victorians}

New Thoughts on Evolution: Views of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S.

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November 30, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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"The scales on the wings of a moth," he said quietly, "have no explanation in Evolution. They belong to Beauty, and Beauty is a spiritual mystery." Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, cerebral cortex, cochlea, ear, eardrum, electrical signals, equilibrium, fish, foresight, hair cells, hearing, Howard Glicksman, incus, malleus, middle ear, natural selection, ossicles, outer ear, pinna, reptiles, sound waves, Steve Laufmann, tympanic membrane, vertebrates, vibrations, Your Designed Body}

The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 30, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, beta-lactamase, biologic institute, Brian Miller, Cambridge, Dennis Venema, designer, Douglas Axe, E. coli, Emily Reeves, enzyme, evolution, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, New Scientist, No Free Lunch theorems, preconditions, protein folds, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), Unbelievable, universe}

Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds

_{Brian Miller and Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The following examination and defense of Dr. Axe serves as a direct, empirical test of Rope Kojonen’s design hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioEssays, body plans, cancer, chimpanzees, diseases, DNA, evolution, evolutionary biologists, function, functionality, gene expression, genes, humans, immune response, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk RNA, lncRNAs, molecular biologists, mRNAs, mutations, natural selection, protein translation, proteins, proteome, repetitive DNA, retrotransposons, ribozymes, species, transcription}

Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinians, Donald R. Prothero, Ernst Haeckel, François Jacob, hagfish, humans, kidneys, mammals, museum, natural selection, vertebrates, vestigial structures}

Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 28, 2023

Evolution, Medicine

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Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anomalies, BioEssays, brain function, dogmatism, epigenetic information, evidence, evolution, evolutionary theory, function, gene regulation, genes, genetic programming, geochemical anomalies, inheritance, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, molecular biology, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, RNA genes, Thomas Kuhn}

The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

_{Casey Luskin
November 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, economics, eugenics, laissez-faire, Michael Shermer, natural selection, Ross A. Slotten, Thomas Malthus, Wesley J. Smith, World War II}

Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference

_{Michael Flannery
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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No wonder Alfred Russel Wallace called eugenics “the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, addiction, alleles, anomalies, Barbara McClintock, BioEssays, circadian rhythms, cognition, DNA, enhancers, epigenetic code, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, evolution, genes, genomes, human genome, intelligence, intelligent design, introns, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, methylation, molecular biology, mRNAs, neutral evolution, paradigm shift, personality, retroviruses, Ribosome, Scientific American, Short Tandem Repeats, Thomas Kuhn, transposable elements, transposons}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arrow, atheism, biological systems, chance, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinians, evolution, intelligent design, luck, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pattern, probabilistic resources, probability, random, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, theists, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 27, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 25, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, evolution, HMS Beagle, Island Life, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, Malay Archipelago, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Palms of the Amazon and Rio Negro, Robert Chambers, Samuel Stevens, Sarawak Law, Somerset Maugham, South America, The Malay Archipelago, Use, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Walter Henry Bates}

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

_{Michael Flannery
November 25, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Read More ›