Tag: beta-lactamase

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 14, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, beta-lactamase, Cambridge, Casey Luskin, cookies, design intuition, Douglas Axe, dragonflies, England, enzymes, ID the Future, mutation, peer-reviewed research, philosophers, podcasts, protein scientists, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theophobes, Undeniable (book)}

Axe and Luskin on the Design Intuition and Its Critics

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 14, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

2}

The numbers don’t lie. So why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Axe’s research? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, antibodies, atheism, beta-lactamase, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cell (journal), Christians, COVID-19, Dan Tawfik, Darrel Falk, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Explore Evolution, fossil record, Graham Budd, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, peer-reviewed literature, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, precambrian fossils, protein evolution, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, rhetoric, RNA, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, theism, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry, universe}

From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

_{Casey Luskin
May 15, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

18}

Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, beta-lactamase, calculations, cars, Design Inference, Douglas Axe, formalism, Jack Szostak, Kolmogorov information, Mount Rushmore, probability, protein folds, Shannon information, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus

_{William A. Dembski
March 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

The validity of these estimates and the degree to which they can be refined can be disputed. But the underlying formalism of specified complexity is rock solid. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, beta-lactamase, biologic institute, Brian Miller, Cambridge, Dennis Venema, designer, Douglas Axe, E. coli, Emily Reeves, enzyme, evolution, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, New Scientist, No Free Lunch theorems, preconditions, protein folds, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), Unbelievable, universe}

Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds

_{Brian Miller and Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

17}

The following examination and defense of Dr. Axe serves as a direct, empirical test of Rope Kojonen’s design hypothesis. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beta-lactamase, Darwinism, Darwinists, debates, Douglas Axe, E. coli, evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jason Rosenhouse, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, probabilistic resources, Richard Lenski, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), Sisyphus, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

_{William A. Dembski
August 30, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

8}

Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›

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post

Date
December 9, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beta-lactamase, Cambridge, Casey Luskin, design intuition, Douglas Axe, dragonflies, England, enzymes, intelligent design, petri dish, philosophers, proteins, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith}

Axe’s Not-So-Secret Guide to Making Cookies and Dragonflies

_{Science & Culture
December 9, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Doug Axe’s research? Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
March 7, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, antifreeze protein, beta-lactamase, Darwin's Doubt, Dennis Venema, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzyme, FOXP2, gene duplication, human genome, Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, lateral gene transfer, nylonase, PLOS ONE, protein folds, proteins, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Stephen Meyer}

Adam and the Genome and Doug Axe’s Research on the Evolution of New Protein Folds

_{Science & Culture
March 7, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

16}

Douglas Axe is a protein scientist who has published work on the rarity of new protein folds by doing research on beta-lactamase enzymes. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 26, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, beta-lactamase, Cambrian Explosion, Cloudina, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Ediacaran organisms, enzymes, evolution, innovation, intelligent design, Michael Behe, nylonase, precambrian fossils, proteins, Richard Lenski, Tom Bethell}

Desperately Seeking Evolutionary Innovation by Chance

_{Science & Culture
July 26, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Ask evolutionists for a clear, unambiguous example of a new gain in function by chance at the genetic level. They will be hard pressed to show one. Read More ›