Tag: bacteria

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 11, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiotic chemical reactions, amino acids, archaea, bacteria, cellular organism, cofactors, common ancestry, environment, enzymatic metabolism, enzymes, evolutionary biologists, homology, hydrothermal vent, last archaeal common ancestor, Last Bacterial Common Ancestor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, lineages, LUCA, nucleobases, organic molecules, origin of life, Science Advances, Smithsonian Magazine, universal common ancestry}

Enzymes in Bacteria and Archaea Are So Dissimilar There Must Be “Two Origins of Life”

_{Casey Luskin
August 11, 2026

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Don’t get distracted by wondering how the extreme heat near a vent (a toasty 750° F or more inside the vent) wouldn’t quickly break down organic molecules. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 10, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Computational Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bacteria, biotech, chatbots, ChatGPT, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, complacency, drug-resistant bacteria, human viruses, Peter Koo, poisons, Science (journal), Stanford University, technology, virus, Wall Street Journal, World Health Organization}

Hey, Great News! Scientists Used AI to Create Viruses

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2026

Bioethics, Computational Sciences, Medicine

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What about attempts to test their virulence in humans? The approach in the Stanford lab sure sounds like a new form of gain-of-function research to me. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 3, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Murray, antibodies, ATP synthase, bacteria, bacterial flagellar motor, bacterial flagellum, biochemistry, Biophysical Journal, blood clotting cascade, cells, chemotaxis, cilium, Current Biology, Dan Tawfik, Darwin’s Black Box, David Snoke, Douglas Axe, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, eukaryotic cell division, evolutionary pathways, Harvard University, homology, injectisome, irreducibly complex systems, Journal of Theoretical Biology, macrobiological features, Michael Behe, molecular machinery, molecular machines, motility, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Heredity, Nicholas Matzke, Oxford University Press, PNAS, polar bears, protein science, proteins, Quarterly Review of Biology, Ribosome, Science (journal), T3SS, The Edge of Evolution, type three secretory system, universal common ancestor, vision, William Dembski}

Darwin’s Black Box at 30: The Evidence Wins!

_{Casey Luskin
August 3, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Macrobiological features have been cited as irreducibly complex, including animal joints and the trap mechanisms of carnivorous plants, even the cell itself. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, ancestral genes, animals, arthropods, bacteria, biological descent, biological information, bony vertebrates, chordates, Christoph Adami, COX2, cytochrome c oxidase subunit II, entropy, eukaryotes, evolution, fish, homeobox, homeodomain, information, lineages, mammals, Maxwell’s demon, proteins, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Evolution of Biological Information: The Line of Descent

_{Winston Ewert
July 28, 2026

Evolution, Genetics

3}

In the end, Christoph Adami’s method has not shown anything about the entropy or information content of ancestral sequences. Read More ›

Cells under microscope. Biology background

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, artificial cell, bacteria, biomolecular machines, Biotic, cell membranes, CNN, DNA, enzymes, Frankenstein, generations, genes, genetic information, genome, Goldilocks, information, intelligent design, living cells, metabolism, molecules, New York Times, nutrients, ribosomes, ScienceAlert, SpudCell, synthetic biologists}

“SpudCell”: More Evidence that Origin of Life Requires Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
July 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This is most curious. SpudCell’s creators are boasting that it has “a much smaller genome” than any other known living cell. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
July 13, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AbrB, antibiotics, autoregulation, Bacillus subtilis, bacteria, biology, cassettes, cell fate, chemotaxis, CodY, ComK, competence, crowdsourcing, DegU, dense overlapping regulons, DNA, Energy, environmental conditions, exponential growth, feed-forward loops, gene expression, gene regulatory network, graduate school, housekeeping, intelligent design, isoleucine, leucine, metabolic pathways, metabolism, microorganisms, principal investigator, Rok, Sigma-H, single input modules, sporulation, stress, superintellect, transcription, valine, virulence}

To Crowdsource DNA, or Not to Crowdsource DNA: A Microbe’s Decision Pathway

_{Emily Reeves
July 13, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

10}

These are the same type of understandable and logical computation circuits that humans design. What can we learn from observing this similarity? Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, apes, bacteria, Bertrand Russell, Bible, California, carbon, Center for Science and Culture, chauvinism, consciousness, Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Independence, DNA, dolphins, endowed by our creator, human rights, John Lilly, John West, language, legal protection, Leon Kass, moral crisis, Science (journal), solar system, Thomas Jukes, United Nations, United States, Yale University, zoo}

On Our 250th Anniversary, There Is a Battle for America’s Soul

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 2, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

4}

While some researchers have "personified" their apes, others have mechanized their concept of man. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, bacteria, cells, clueless, control, E. coli, genes, guidance, James Tour, Kate Adamala, materialists, minimal cell, New York Times, origin of life, plagiarism, proteins, ribosomes, RNA, SpudCell, University of Minnesota}

We Created Life! Er, Wait a Minute…

_{Science & Culture
July 2, 2026

Biology, Origin of Life

3}

A synthetic cell lineage contrived by humans will (necessarily) need to copy what Nature has already done, or fail. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
May 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Asa Gray, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cosmogonism, Crotchet Castle, crotchets, David Stove, Europe, evolution, evolutionary psychology, False Messiah, fish, Francis Darwin, G. B. Müller, Heilsgeschichte, HMS Beagle, humans, James Moore, Jenny (orangutan), Lamarckian theory, Melanie Phillips, monkeys, nescience, Origin of Species, panspermia, Parousia, progress, Question Time, Richard Dawkins, S. A. Newman, sociobiology, The Kingdom of Speech, Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Malthus, Tom Wolfe, Victorians}

Paradigm Lost: Darwinism and the Idea of Human Progress

_{Neil Thomas
May 12, 2026

Evolution, History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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The notion of progress is now of course increasingly questioned, especially after what has come to be known as “the calamitous 20th century.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 1, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, biological engineering, Boris Zinshteyn, codons, combinations, degeneracy, dormancy, Francis Crick, function, genes, genetic code, hypoxia, intelligent design, mismatch, MIT, Mycobacterium bovis, oxygen, Peter Dedon, PNAS, predictions, proteins, Rachel Green, redundancy, Science (journal), Scripps Research Institute, transfer RNA}

A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

_{David Coppedge
April 1, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Read More ›