Tag: bacteria

Products from polyurethane on the exhibition stand. Industry

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
November 11, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AbPURase, amino acids, bacteria, blind search, China, clothes, couch cushions, crosslinking, E. coli, engineering, enzymes, foresight, graph neural networks, GRASE, landfills, mattresses, mutation, natural enzymes, neural network, plastic, polyurethane, promiscuous activity, protein engineering, recycling, selection, shoes, urethanases, yoga mats}

Can Protein Design Outpace Directed Evolution in Recycling Plastic?

_{Emily Reeves
November 11, 2025

Computational Sciences, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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What is polyurethane and where is it used? It’s a type of plastic and it is pretty much everywhere: shoes, clothes, yoga mats, mattresses, couch cushions. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 6, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal kingdom, bacteria, Bible, biosphere, cancer, Casey Luskin, cat, cell division, chromosome, Darwin Devolves, death, DNA, earth, ecosystem, humans, intelligent design, Karl Krueger, life, mice, Michael Behe, National Cancer Institute, origin of life, plants, proliferation, seeds, squirrels, telomeres}

Death by Intelligent Design? A Biological Enigma

_{Eric Hedin
October 6, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Limited lifespans, accompanied by reproductive continuation of the living organism, provide a sustainable balance for life. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. G. Werner, apatite, aquamarine, Australia, bacteria, bone, calcium, collagen, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, dinosaurs, enamel, fluoridated water, fluoride toothpaste, food, fungi, geology, homonyms, Howard Glicksman, igneous rocks, lava, magma, metamorphic rocks, Michael Denton, microbes, minerals, Mohs hardness scale, osteocytes, phosphorus, Privileged Species, Quartz, Secrets of the Human Body, sharks, teeth, Tyrannosaurus rex}

How We Bite with Apatite: The Wonders of a Hard Mineral

_{David Coppedge
September 5, 2025

Geology, Intelligent Design

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Explore the features of a remarkable mineral erupted from volcanoes that is found in our teeth. How did it get there? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, bacteria, behavior, biochemistry, biological information, biology, biosignatures, cells, cognition, communication, Darwinism, decision-making, digestion, emergent properties, emergentism, emotions, Eric Hedin, goals, heart rate, human beings, ID the Future, information processing, intelligent design, interviews, life, nervous system, physical laws, physicists, rocks, sensory input, sentient beings, single-celled organisms, stars, undirected processes, water}

Physicist Eric Hedin: Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 19, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

3}

I begin a two-part conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin, a physicist and author who’s been asking bold questions about the hidden patterns of life. Read More ›

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Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, biology, bioRxiv, Carl Zimmer, engineering, Escherichia coli, evolution, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic code, genome, Harvard University, intelligent design, MIT, New York Times, publications, recoding, Science (journal), synthetic biologists, Yonatan Chemla}

“Rewriting Code of Life” Sounds a Lot Like Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
August 14, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

2}

Modifying the genetic code is easy. Right? It would have to be, under an evolutionary understanding. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic control circuits, bacteria, Bill Gates, blind evolution, Casey Luskin, computer programming, conditional logic, conditional logic control circuits, Denis Noble, DNA, enzymes, evolution, evolutionary biology, glucose, intelligence, intelligent design, lactose, Oxford University, Perry Marshall, promoter, pseudocode, RNA polymerase, Third Way of Evolution}

My Conversation with Denis Noble and Perry Marshall About Evolution and Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
July 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 29, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arginine, bacteria, bacterial cell, bacterial systems, biosynthesis, conformational change, DNA, enzymes, evolutionary origins, genes, lactose, operons, recurring design logic, regulatory systems, repressor, RNA polymerase, sequence homology, stop codons, structural motif, superfamily, transcriptional hierarchies, tryptophan}

Recurring Design Logic in Operon Regulation

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 29, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

As we see in these two examples, the design logic is the same. And yet, these two systems are not evolutionarily related to one another. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, assembly, bacteria, basal disk, Campylobacter jejuni, domain swapping, evolution, fact check, flagellar system, flagellum, folding, headlines, Imperial College London, intelligent design, mathematical plausibility, microbiology, Morgan Beeby, PflC proteins, propellers, proteases, proteins, swimming, transitions, undirected processes}

Fact Check: Has a Study Shown “How Bacteria Evolved Powered-Up Propellers”?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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This is a classic case of the media overstating the evidence for some evolutionary claim. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 11, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, attractants, Bacillus subtilis, bacteria, biological systems, biology, bioluminescence, chemotaxis, complexity, Darwin’s Black Box, E. coli, genes, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, musicians, outer membrane, painters, poisons, proteins, Salmonella, signal transduction, sporulation, toxins}

Recurring Design Logic in Living Systems

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 11, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Architects, painters, musicians, and other creators apply recognizable patterns of thinking to their craft. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 9, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bacteria, Camp Mystic, campers, counsellors, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, good, Gottfried Leibnitz, group selection, innocent suffering, Ivan Karamazov, kin selection, Lisbon earthquake, mourning, natural selection, PZ Myers, reciprocal altruism, summer camp, The Doors of the Sea, theodicy, Voltaire}

The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

_{Michael Egnor
July 9, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Read More ›