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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Irreducible Complexity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mice, Michael Behe, mousetrap, nature, Utricularia}

Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature

_{Granville Sewell
February 28, 2020

Botany, Life Sciences

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Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.” Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Botany
Epistemology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, ammonia, BBC News, biosphere, flowering plants, fungi, intelligent design, Jordan, maize, oxygen, pesticides, soil, water}

Getting to the Roots of Design

_{Science & Culture
February 27, 2020

Botany, Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends. Read More ›

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Date
January 22, 2020

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, algae, Charles Darwin, chloroplasts, Communications Biology, cryo-electron microscopy, Cyanobacteria, diatoms, Discovery Institute, earth, enzyme, eukaryotes, evolution, foresight, Heidelberg University, homology, intelligent design, Maxwell’s demon, microscopes, nanomachines, Nature (journal), photosynthesis, Photosystem II, Purdue University, Second Law of Thermodynamics, University of North Carolina}

Informed Choice Seen in Cellular Nanomachines

_{Science & Culture
January 22, 2020

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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As imaging techniques approach nanometer resolution, the detailed workings of molecular mechanisms reveal precision engineering designs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 26, 2019

Categories
Biology
Botany
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, bacteria, birds, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, cell membrane, Copernicus, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute Press, evo-devo, fatty acids, foresight, Galileo Galilei, Gerhard Ertl, intelligent design, Kepler, Marcos Eberlin, mass spectrometry, multiverse, natural genetic engineering, Nature (journal), neutral evolution, Newton, Nobel Prize, Psalms, Science (journal), Seattle, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Woodland Park Zoo}

#7 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Three Nobel Endorsements for Marcos Eberlin

_{David Klinghoffer
December 26, 2019

Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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This is the refrain of the book: “It is all or death!” “All or nothing!” Half-solutions are no solutions at all. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
November 7, 2019

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Children of Light, Darwin on Trial, evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, Phillip E. Johnson, San Francisco, teleology}

Remembering Phil Johnson: Visiting San Fran Will Never Be the Same

_{Michael Denton
November 7, 2019

Botany, Evolution

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It pleased me to find out that his reading of my book was one of the major influences that motivated him to take up the fight. Read More ›

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
July 12, 2019

Categories
Botany
Chemistry
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, animal kingdom, bacteria, BBC, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, devolution, digestive system, evolution, evolutionary pathway, foresight, homology, homoplasy, insects, Marcos Eberlin, natural selection, Nobel Prize, prey, United States, Venus flytrap}

The Lovable Venus Flytrap: A Design Analysis

_{Marcos Eberlin
July 12, 2019

Botany, Chemistry, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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A correspondent sends along this remarkable nature video from the BBC and asks a good question. Read More ›

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Date
June 25, 2019

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Alzheimer’s disease, chlorophyll, Current Biology, DNA, eukaryotes, gravity, homeostasis, light, Nature Communications, oxygen, photosynthesis, PNAS, proteins, reactive oxygen species, Scott Turner, sleep, spliceosome, yeast, zebrafish}

Homeostasis: How Active Maintenance Showcases Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
June 25, 2019

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design

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Can you think of an un-designed process that employs external machinery to maintain the state of another machine? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 20, 2019

Categories
Botany
Engineering
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, atoms, carbon, cells, Christianity, Dominic Halsmer, Evolution News, fundamental forces, humanity, intelligent design, laws of nature, lipids, molecules, nitrogen, oxygen, photosynthesis, proteins, reverse-engineering, Romans, stars, sun, textbook, The Privileged Planet, universe, William Paley}

New Engineering Textbook, Hacking the Cosmos, Argues for Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
June 20, 2019

Botany, Engineering, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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According to Halsmer, engineering involves “the creative use of resources and ingenuity to accomplish a purpose or solve a problem.” It does so by creating “affordances.” Read More ›

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Date
June 14, 2019

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Tagged
, __cedited, blind chance, collagen, Darwinians, Fibonacci sequence, genes, Golden Ratio, University of Tokyo}

Plant Spirals Finally Solved?

_{Science & Culture
June 14, 2019

Botany, Life Sciences, Mathematics

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The Fibonacci spirals in plants have long attracted scientists and puzzled them as well. How do they form? Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
May 30, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Botany
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, animals, bacteria, biologist, birds, bugs, chemicals, evolution, evolutionary biologists, foresight, genetic code, Howard Glicksman, human life, intelligent design, mass spectrometry, migration, molecules}

How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight

_{Howard Glicksman
May 30, 2019

Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.” Read More ›