Tag: Carl Woese

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biology, Carl Woese, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, dualism, Erwin Schrödinger, Essays on Life Itself, function, gravitation, Inertia, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, language, Life Itself, Mass, Michael Behe, molecular biologists, natural selection, phenotype, physics, randomness, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, structure, What Is Life?}

In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 2, 2025

Biology, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, Carl Woese, causation, cells, Chance and Necessity, David Hume, dispositionalism, Evolution News, final cause, intentionality, Isaac Newton, Jacques Monod, Michael Behe, purpose, René Descartes, science of purpose, telos, The Design Inference, Walter Elsasser, William A. Dembski}

Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 12, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. 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
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
January 24, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, ammonia, Carl Woese, DNA, hydrogen, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, lipids, macromolecules, molecular biology, molecules, oxygen, proteins, purpose, RNA, science of purpose, senses, water}

The Elephant in the Science Lab

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
January 24, 2023

Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science

4}

I have been seeking to describe the science of purpose. Now it is worth getting down to the basics of what science actually is and how it works. Read More ›

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post

Date
June 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, Big Data, Carl Woese, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Current Biology, Darwinian theory, genomics, hybridization, intelligent design, introgression, jumping genes, lateral gene transfer, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, taxonomy, Texas, transposons, Tree of Life}

Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
June 1, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Carl Woese, Charles Darwin, eukaryotic cells, Freeman Dyson, Jerry Coyne, Linnean Society, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, prokaryotic cells, Reductionism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen}

When Darwinian Evolution Became Obsolete

_{Michael Flannery
May 3, 2021

Evolution

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The theory of evolution by natural selection was unveiled to a poorly attended and generally inattentive audience at a Linnean Society meeting. Read More ›