Category: Intelligent Design | Page 10 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, AlphaFold3, apoptosis, bioinformatic data, cancer, cancer cells, carboxy-terminal domain, cell death, cells, chemotherapy, chromatin, Darwin’s Black Box, DNA, DNA replication, double helix, enzymes, Freed-Hardeman University, intrinsically disordered regions, Irreducible Complexity, isoforms, Joe Deweese, mutants, proteins, replication, TOP2A, TOP2B, topoisomerases, toxic side effects}

How Irreducible Complexity Can Help with Cancer Drug Research

_{Emily Reeves
August 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Topoisomerases are molecular machines that play a critical role in resolving DNA tangles and supercoiling generated during DNA replication. Read More ›

The Dynamic Dance of Salmonella enterica Flagella A Swirling Symphony of Bacterial Locomotion

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 20, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, binding interface, biological systems, bushing, cells, clutch, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, E. coli, Educating Dave Farina (series), irreducibly complex systems, LP ring, machine language, machines, motor, multicellular organisms, nanomachines, proteins, qualification, quotation marks, quote marks, RNA polymerase, scientific literature, The Edge of Evolution, transcription, transcription factors, YouTubers}

Has Dave Farina Refuted Behe and Me on the Bacterial Flagellum?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 20, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The use of machine language to describe biological systems is standard in the scientific literature. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 19, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ALife, Armageddon, artificial life, bombers, bootstrappers, Christoph Adami, computer code, computer models, Core War, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, evolution, guidance, hydras, imps, intelligent design, Michael Behe, non-intervention, pit-trappers, quickscanners, replicators, scanners, simulations, The Evolution of Biological Information, Tierra, VENUS (simulation)}

Simulations Point to Design: Learning from the History of Artificial Life

_{Winston Ewert
August 19, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Once you introduce step-by-step guidance, you are no longer simulating an evolutionary process. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 19, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alpha helix, animals, apes, bacteria, bacterial flagella, biochemists, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), evolution, HIV-1, Michael Behe, multicellular organisms, mutations, population genetics, population sizes, proteins, residues, tetherin, tetherin antagonism, The Edge of Evolution, transmembrane domain, viruses, Vpu, YouTubers}

Answering Dave Farina on the Vpu Protein in HIV-1

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 19, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Farina’s dismissal of this important point suggests that he does not understand the subject of population genetics very well. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 18, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amplification, bacterial cells, citrate, citT, Dave Farina, dctA, DNA, Educating Dave Farina (series), Escherichia coli, genes, Irreducible Complexity, long-term evolution experiment, Michael Behe, mutations, neutral mutations, Richard Lenski, rnk, Scott Minnich, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Dave Farina on the Lenski Experiment

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 18, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Farina offers the Lenski experiment as a purported counterexample to irreducible complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antimalarial drugs, bacterial flagellum, Casey Luskin, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, chloroquine, competence, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), Elysia chlorotica, endosymbiosis, evolution, flagellum, FleQ, gene deletion, genes, Google, intelligent design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, malarial parasite, Michael Behe, motility, mutations, Nathan Lents, Paramecium tetraurelia, Petri dishes, photosynthetic algae, Pseudomonas fluorescens, scout mindset, soldier mindset, The Edge of Evolution, Twitter, Vaucheria litorea, youtube}

Let’s Educate “Professor” Dave Farina on Evolution and Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 17, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Failing to acknowledge mistakes when they are pointed out to you is one of the surest signs of “soldier mindset.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, cells, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, children, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, John West, Michael Behe, milestones, podcast, Stephen Meyer, The Edge of Evolution}

On a Special Anniversary, the Biochemical Challenge to Darwin Stands Strong

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 17, 2026

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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By intelligent design, you might say, August 1996 was the same month that John West and Stephen Meyer founded the Center for Science and Culture. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 16, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal behaviors, bioinformaticians, biology, biomedicine, biopolymers, Budapest, Carlo Alberto Cossano, cells, chemical engineer, chemical engineers, cultural anthropologists, Danube River, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, engineering, ERTEM, Germany, human origins, Hungarian, Hungarian Parliament Building, Hungary, information, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, Italy, languages, molecular machines, Norway, origin of life, orphan genes, Poland, proteins, Research, Unexpected Genome, United Kingdom}

Postcard from Budapest: Intelligent Design Is Growing in Europe

_{Casey Luskin
August 16, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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I started with a brief explanation of what ID theory is and how it works and then went through about a dozen examples of ID research. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 14, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, bombshell, Center for Science and Culture, complexity, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Behe, molecular machines, National Review, new york, New York Times, podcast, publishing, Simon and Schuster, The Free Press, Wall Street Journal}

Behe’s Bombshell, Thirty Years Later

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 14, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Back in the 1990s, scientists were just starting to discover that virtually all cellular processes were powered by molecular machines. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Tagged
, algorithmic specified complexity, Animal Algorithms, birds, brain hemispheres, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian phyla, Center for Science and Culture, complex programmed behaviors, Darwin's Doubt, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute Press, Emily Reeves, evolutionary biology, fossil explosions, function, functional information, genetics, genomics, George Montañez, goal-directedness, Günter Bechly, Homo (genus), insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, Kolmogorov complexity, land plants, mammals, marine invertebrates, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, Minding the Brain, molecular biology, Nature Communications, Origin of Species, paleontology, Piers Morgan, protein science, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, split-brain surgery, Stephen Meyer, Taking Stock at 30 (series), teleology, The Design Inference, The Immortal Mind, Theistic Evolution (book), William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Fossil Explosions Persist, and Other Confirmations of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology

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From 2016 until his tragic death in 2025, Bechly made many important contributions to ID literature on the topic of fossil explosions in the history of life. Read More ›