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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 24, 2023

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, annelids, antennae, bacteria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Period, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Colorado State University, crustaceans, earthworms, eyes, fishing, food, GUT, legs, Michael Denton, muscles, NASA, nerves, Penn State, Privileged Species, roundworms, soil, termites, worms}

Hidden Service Animals: Earthworms Are Only the Beginning

_{David Coppedge
October 24, 2023

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Soil biodiversity is still a black box. Some scientists are beginning to explore the global underground that services the health of plants and animals. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, base pairs, circadian clock, clocks, Darwinism, England, evolution, genes, intelligent design, John Innes Centre, natural selection, prokaryotes, regulation, Science Advances, The Blind Watchmaker, The Conversation, University of Vienna, William Paley}

“Astonishing” Clocks Found in Bacteria

_{David Coppedge
October 10, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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How could evolution bestow accurate timepieces on the simplest, most primitive life forms? It sounds like something William Paley would expect. Read More ›

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Date
September 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, Darwin’s God, Dennis Venema, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, podcast, Ray Bohlin, scientists, The Edge of Evolution, unguided evolution}

An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

_{Science & Culture
September 2, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Carl Woese, function, genes, genomes, orthodoxy, Tree of Life}

Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

_{Paul Nelson
August 15, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 25, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, bacterial cell division, cell wall, evolution, foresight, glycosyltransferases, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, natural selection, penicillin, peptides, self-replication}

Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 25, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, bacteria, biosphere, cancer, complex life, Duke University, intelligent design, Mercury, microbes, Nature (journal), Nature Microbiology, New Scientist, ocean, Penn State, pollution, Science Advances, seafood, tuna, UC Riverside}

Gifted Microbes Elevate the Case for Intelligent Design to the Entire Biosphere

_{David Coppedge
June 27, 2023

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Far from being humble, primitive steppingstones to higher life, microbes display superpowers that so-called “higher” forms of life depend on. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Bayes factor, Center for Science and Culture, citrate, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, eggs, embryos, Escherichia coli, evolution, goal-directedness, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, James Tour, likelihood, lizards, metabolites, Michael Behe, natural processes, Rice University, Scott Minnich, The Edge of Evolution, University of Idaho}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, creation, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Erwin Schrödinger, giraffes, Homo sapiens, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, micromutations, natural preservation, natural selection, nature, Nick Lane, On the Origin of Species, quantum physics, Stanford University, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, University of Chicago Press, William Paley, William Shakespeare}

Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?

_{Neil Thomas
June 19, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point. Read More ›

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Date
June 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, bacteria, Carolyn Hovde, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dustin Van Hofwegen, E. coli, evolution, ID the Future, Journal of Bacteriology, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Neo-Darwinism, podcast, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho}

Engineering and Evolution in the Microbial World

_{Science & Culture
June 2, 2023

Biology, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This year’s Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS) is going on right now, exploring design principles at work in living things. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 31, 2023

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algae, Aristotle, bacteria, biopolymers, cell walls, cellulose, Current Biology, evolutionists, fungi, genes, glucose, machines, meteorites, microbes, molecular machines, NASA, proteins, slime molds, sugars, tunicates, volcanoes, wood}

Cellulose Doesn’t Just Happen

_{David Coppedge
May 31, 2023

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The most abundant biopolymer on Earth requires a host of machines, genes, proteins, and accessories. Read More ›