Tag: C. elegans

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Date
April 20, 2025

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, animals, artificial intelligence, bacon, Benjamin Libet, brain, C. elegans, ChatGPT, computer, Denyse O'Leary, determinism, Dogs, free will, free won't, human exceptionalism, Humanize, large language models, machines, Michael Egnor, mind, Minding the Brain, neural mechanisms, neuroscience, podcast, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, Wesley J. Smith}

Are “Mind” and “Brain” the Same Thing?

_{Science and Culture
April 20, 2025

Human Exceptionalism, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

4}

Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor passionately argues that denying free will undermines moral responsibility and paves the way for totalitarian ideologies. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Reeves

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, biology, C. elegans, caterpillar, Center for Science and Culture, complexity, Creepy Crawly Complexity, earthworms, ecosystem, education, educators, George Damoff, Great Northern University, How to Code Life, insects, Intelligent Design Education Day, megradrilologists, Metamorphosis (film), parents, Pedro Moura, roundworms, science educators, Seattle, spiders, Spokane, Summer Seminar, Tiny Tech, Washington State, worms}

Latest — and Largest — Intelligent Design Education Day Explores “Creepy Crawly Complexity”

_{Daniel Reeves
March 27, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

2}

Talks by three different scientists showcased the astonishing abundance, diversity, and complexity of insects, spiders, and worms. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, atheism, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response}

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Autonomous University of Madrid, C. elegans, Current Science, David Coppedge, evolution, Gary Ruvkun, gene regulation, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Karolinska Institutet, microRNA, miRNA, National Cancer Institute, Nicholas Robine, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sarnovsky, roundworm, Subhash Lakhotia, The Conversation, The Myth of Junk DNA, Victor Ambros, William A. Dembski}

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
January 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Autonomous University of Madrid, C. elegans, Current Science, David Coppedge, evolution, Gary Ruvkun, gene regulation, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Karolinska Institutet, microRNA, miRNA, National Cancer Institute, Nicholas Robine, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sarnovsky, roundworm, Subhash Lakhotia, The Conversation, The Myth of Junk DNA, Victor Ambros, William A. Dembski}

2024 Nobel Prize Awarded for the Discovery of Function for a Type of “Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
December 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Read More ›

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post

Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 14, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brains, C. elegans, coherence, complexity, cortex, crystals, efficiency, flight control, fruit flies, intelligent design, morphology, mouse, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, optimization, pheromones, Research, snowflake, specified complexity}

Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain

_{Eric Cassell
November 14, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 13, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bioinformatics, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, Discovery Institute, DNA, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary paradigm, fungi, genes, genomes, genomics, intelligent design, nucleotide sequences, ORfan genes, PLOS ONE, search engines, taxonomic groups}

ORFanID: An Online Search Engine for Identifying Orfan Genes

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 13, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The existence of such genes is surprising given the hypothesis of universal common descent. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bioelectricity, C. elegans, codes, communication, cows, Current Biology, Darwinism, Dionaea muscipula, Duke University, human body, information, Linköping University, Michael Faraday, microbes, Phys.org, rabbits, Science Advances, Sweden, ticks, Velcro, Venus flytrap}

Bioelectricity Gives Biologists a Jolt

_{David Coppedge
August 16, 2023

Biology, Botany, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

We’ve explored bioelectricity in cells. We’ve looked at it within the human body. Now, electrical engineering is being found in the realms between. Read More ›

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post

Date
May 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Be a Movie Producer, C. elegans, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evolution, film festival, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, philosophy of biology, worms, YouTube videos}

Film Festival 2023 — “How to Build a Worm”

_{Science and Culture
May 9, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Today we are screening a video hosted by Paul Nelson who describes the amazing process by which the worm is constructed and how it points toward ID. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. elegans, Caltech, Cell Reports, cells, condensates, David Klinghoffer, droplets, epigenetics, genome, Hospital for Sick Children, John Innes Centre, marching band, metabolism, Modern Synthesis, molecular machines, Neo-Darwinism, organelles, p53 protein, Stephen Buranyi, The Guardian, The Scientist, Toronto, University of Konstanz}

Epigenetics Directs Genetics — And That’s a Problem for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
November 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The ability to sequence genomes was a great accomplishment. But there is something over and above genes. Read More ›