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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative splicing, amino acids, animation, complexity, development, DNA, eukaryotes, evolution, exons, Francis Crick, genes, intelligent causation, intelligent design, introns, junk DNA, MicroRNAs, mRNA, proteins, Ribosome, spliceosome, splicing}

Evolutionary Obstacles to the Origin of Introns

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 18, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The only type of explanation that adequately accounts for this type of phenomenon is a goal-directed, or intelligent, cause. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metascience
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, a priori, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, failed predictions, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientists, variation}

How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

_{Kirk Durston
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Life Sciences, Metascience, Scientific Reasoning

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To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, ATP, Brian Miller, Eric Anderson, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, metabolic pathways, origin of life, PNAS, podcast, proteins, Stephen Meyer, transcription, translation}

Brian Miller: Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Theories

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

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Is origin of life research going round in circles, like the proverbial snake in pursuit of its own tail? Read More ›

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Author
Gregory Rummo

Date
March 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Book of Job, chemistry, codons, Douglas Axe, Johannes Kepler, Joseph Hooker, Judeo-Christian tradition, malnutrition, mRNA, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, primordial soup, protein synthesis, proteins, reagents, RNA polymerase, Stephen Meyer, tRNA}

The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

_{Gregory Rummo
March 17, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 5, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Rare Earth
Tagged
, __nedited, amino acids, Carl Zimmer, DNA, DOGE, Genesis, John Cleese, King Lear, living cells, Monty Python, NASA, New York Times, nucleobases, organic molecules, panspermia, proteins, RNA, science writers, Signature in the Cell, species, University of Michigan, uracil}

Could This Be the Year’s Most Ridiculous Idea About How Life Originated?

_{David Klinghoffer
February 5, 2025

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Rare Earth

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Stories like this always want to tell us how Earth and life are not “special.” It’s an obsession with science writers, and seemingly with the folks at NASA too. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Ann Gauger, bias, causal circularity, cells, circular reasoning, codons, common ancestor, cysteine, DNA, genetic code, helicase, histidine, mind, natural processes, nucleotides, Phys.org, PNAS, proteins, replication, RNA world, topoisomerase, transcription, translation}

Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code

_{Brian Miller
January 27, 2025

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
December 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, artificial intelligence, brain, butterflies, creativity, DNA, embryonic development, flowers, large language models, nucleotides, origami, simulations, spinal cord}

Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
December 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities. Read More ›

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Author
Otangelo Grasso

Date
December 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Brian Miller, building blocks, calculations, chance, jackpot, James Tour, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Long Story Short, metabolism, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Phys.org, Powerball, proteins, proteome, protocells, Quanta Magazine, Rice University, RNA world, self-organization, University of North Carolina}

Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life

_{Otangelo Grasso
December 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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If researchers really were making progress, wouldn’t that mean they would be converging on the same truth? Yet they are not. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, amino acids, ancestors, chimpanzees, Denisovans, DNA, human origins, humans, Live Science, Neanderthals}

Reader Asks: What Is Denisovan DNA?

_{Casey Luskin
December 12, 2024

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The “Denisovans” are kind of a fictional group from which we only have a few fragmented bone specimens. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
December 3, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, amino acids, bones, butterflies, campfire, Carl Jung, clouds, coincidences, Discovery Institute, Doctor's Diary (series), enzyme, femur, Florence, glucose, Harvest House, ice, iron, Michael Denton, moths, Mount Rushmore, nucleotide, Oregon, oxygen, Pacific Northwest, potassium, sodium, synchronicity, The Design Inference, vitamin B12, water, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence

_{Geoffrey Simmons
December 3, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Medicine

11}

I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein. Read More ›