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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 22, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Africa, beneficial mutations, biology, C-Harlem, cellular networks, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Dave Farina, de novo genes, degradation, Educating Dave Farina (series), evolution, expression, generation time, genetics, information, insults, loss-of-function, Michael Behe, misrepresentations, name-calling, neofunctionalization, neutral mutations, non-coding DNA, population genetics, probabilistic resources, protein folding, pseudogenes, purifying selection, strawman, The Edge of Evolution, unguided processes, YouTubers}

Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 22, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Genetics

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Farina’s response to my previous series is characterized by misrepresentations, selective engagement, and reliance on insults and name-calling. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 21, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, bacteria, Cit+, complex molecular interactions, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), eukaryotes, evolution, fitness landscapes, generation time, genomes, HIV, mammals, Michael Behe, mutation rates, mutations, patients, population sizes, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, viruses, Vpu, YouTubers}

In Defense of The Edge of Evolution, a Response to Dave Farina

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 21, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Genetics

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If evolution is capable of producing complex molecular interactions, the place where we would most expect to find them is in viruses like HIV. 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
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 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 ›

Highlighting central rod-shaped bacterium floating under microscope, with flagellum and pili

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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
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, artificial cell, bioengineers, biomolecules, Casey Luskin, CNN, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, genetic material, intelligent design, living cells, machinery, Mary Shelley, media, metabolism, molecular machines, natural environment, New York Post, nutrients, pasta, proteins, replications, ribosomes, science reporters, scientists, self-replication, SpudCells}

Luskin on SpudCell in NY Post: It’s NOT Alive!

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2026

Biology, Evolution

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Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's horror novel came closer to creating life, based on misunderstandings of her own about “experiments of Dr. [Erasmus] Darwin.” 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 ›

A cheetah in full pursuit of a gazelle across the African savanna during a dust-filled chase at golden hour

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 10, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, biology, Bruce Chapman, Center for Science and Culture, Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, cosmology, Darwin's Black Box, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, goal-directedness, intelligent design, James Shapiro, John West, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, MIT Press, molecular biology, Natural Sciences, Nature (journal), neo-Darwinian paradigm, next generation, Oxford University, paleontology, physics, researchers, scientific evidence, Seattle Pacific University, Stephen Meyer, Taking Stock at 30 (series), teleology, teleonomy, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago}

On the 30th Anniversary of the CSC, Let’s Take Stock of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 10, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Third Way and EES thinking shows that mainstream science is moving on a compass heading that is right in the direction of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 9, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Baylor University, biology, Brown University, bubonic plague, Charles Thaxton, Congress, Darwin’s Black Box., Douglas Axe, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, faculty, injectisome, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, James Shapiro, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kenneth Miller, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, motorcycles, mousetrap, naturalists, non-theistic evolution, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, protein evolution, Roger Olsen, San Francisco, Seattle Pacific University, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Meyer, T3SS, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theistic evolution, type 3 secretory system, University of Chicago, Walter Bradley, Yersinia pestis}

Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On: A Seminal Contribution to Biology

_{William A. Dembski
August 9, 2026

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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It makes sense to think that the T3SS didn’t evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS. Read More ›