seedlings Type post Author David Coppedge Date August 16, 2024 CategoriesBotanyIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , Arabidopsis, auxin, breeders, China, Current Biology, genes, growth hormone, high school, intelligent design, phosphate, rice, roots, soil, wild type How Roots Become Jackhammers David Coppedge August 16, 2024 Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 7 How do flimsy, tiny roots get through hard soil? A root tip hitting hardpan switches on a flurry of signals that get to work on anchorage and penetration. Read More ›
hawk eye Type post Author Casey Luskin Date March 15, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Arabidopsis, cardiovascular system, epigenetics, evolution, genome, Ghana, hawk, intelligent design, Israel, Lamarckian theory, Lamarckism, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, non-random mutation, University of Haifa Paper Provides More Evidence that Mutations Aren’t Random Casey Luskin March 15, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 5 A news release from the University of Haifa pulls no punches about the implications. Read More ›
Single-two-cell-mouse-embryos-with-nuclear-LINE1-RNA-labeled-magenta-Credit-Ramalho-Santos-lab_1 Type post Date July 10, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Arabidopsis, Barbara McClintock, Cell (journal), coding, David Klinghoffer, Developmental Cell, ENCODE, epigenetics, genes, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Kevin Laland, proteins, pseudogenes, RNA, Science (journal), The Myth of Junk DNA, transposons, UC San Francisco As Research Advances, Debunking “Junk DNA” Is Almost Trendy Science and Culture July 10, 2018 Evolution, Intelligent Design 8 Why not treat the whole genome as functional? This is a radical concept, but perhaps the focus on genes distorts our understanding. Read More ›
pea plant Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date May 17, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsBotanyEvolutionHuman ExceptionalismLife Sciences Tagged , __k-review, Arabidopsis, hearing, nature rights, prairie dogs, Wesley J. Smith Prairie Dogs “Talk”…and Plants “Hear” – More Reasons for Dumping Humankind’s Unique Place in Nature? David Klinghoffer May 17, 2017 Bioethics, Botany, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences 3 Plants respond to light, but they do not “see.” Read More ›
Type post Date March 21, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionGeneticsIntelligent DesignScience Tagged , __k-review, Arabidopsis, DNA, DNA code, ENCODE, intelligent design, nature, Neo-Darwinism, nucleic acids, RNA No Mere Bike Messenger, RNA Code Surpassing DNA in Complexity Science and Culture March 21, 2017 Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Science 8 The concept of a “DNA Code” has a long pedigree in genetics. But what about the other nucleic acids? Read More ›