Tag: Carl Zimmer

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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

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

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Andreas Tolias, Baylor College of Medicine, brain, Carl Zimmer, Francis Crick, Margherita Bassi, mouse, neural tissue, neurons, neuroscience, New York Times, PBS, poppy seed, Princeton University, Research, Smithsonian Magazine, The Matrix, Will Dunham}

Even a Mouse Brain Reveals Staggering Complexity

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Mapping a small part of a mouse's brain required 1.6 petabytes of data, which is equivalent to 22 years of nonstop high-definition video. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, asteroid belt, Carl Zimmer, cosmos, DOGE, Enceladus, Europa, Europa Clipper, evolution, Ganymede, habitability, intelligent design, Jupiter, Madagascar, NASA, New York Times, Saturn, The Privileged Planet, Titan}

Hey DOGE, Take a Look at NASA

_{David Klinghoffer
February 8, 2025

Evolution, Physical Sciences

5}

For the materialist, atheist evolutionary viewpoint to be valid, life must be easy to evolve, so aliens MUST be out there somewhere. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 5, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Rare Earth
Tagged
, __nedited, amino acids, Carl Zimmer, DNA, DOGE, Genesis, John Cleese, King Lear, living cells, Monty Python, NASA, New York Times, nucleobases, organic molecules, panspermia, proteins, RNA, science writers, Signature in the Cell, species, University of Michigan, uracil}

Could This Be the Year’s Most Ridiculous Idea About How Life Originated?

_{David Klinghoffer
February 5, 2025

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Rare Earth

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Stories like this always want to tell us how Earth and life are not “special.” It’s an obsession with science writers, and seemingly with the folks at NASA too. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 21, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arithmetic, brain damage, Carl Zimmer, dementia, human brain, Noam Chomsky, Plato, speech, stroke}

Do We Need Language to Think?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 21, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain injury, Carl Zimmer, Charles Camosy, civil rights, consciousness, electronics, human brain, humanity, Neuralink, neurons}

We’ve Discovered “Covert Consciousness” — But Now What?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Creighton University Medical School prof Charles Camosy thinks it is time for something like a civil rights movement for people in this state. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 24, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, anthropomorphism, Carl Zimmer, cheating, consciousness, cooperation, Quanta, virologists, viruses, Washington University}

Sociovirologists Say Viruses Can Cheat, Cooperate

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 24, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine

5}

What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in? Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Doushantuo fossils, embryos, Eumetazoa, evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, homology, Ikaria, intelligent design, Internet, Kimberella, Metazoa, microfossils, Namacalathus, New York Times, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Spiralicellula, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, White Sea assemblage, Yilingia, YouTubers}

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 20, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, God Hypothesis, Johannes Kepler, Judeo-Christian tradition, New York Times, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer}

Did the New York Times Just Give a Covert Nod to Meyer’s “God Hypothesis”?

_{Casey Luskin
August 20, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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What’s different is that this time around, the discussion is far more favorable towards Meyer’s position. Here’s what columnist Ross Douthat says Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran biota, embryos, fossil record, Jerry Coyne, Metazoa, metazoans, microfossils, Namapoikia rietoogensis, Namibia, Neoproterozoic, New York Times, Newfoundland, Nick Matzke, Norway, paleontology, precambrian fossils, protists, Rugoconites enigmaticus, Russia, snowball Earth, South Australia, spicules, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa, Triradialomorpha, White Sea, Wikipedia}

The Myth of Precambrian Sponges

_{Günter Bechly
May 12, 2020

Evolution

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Evolutionists would expect to find sponges as the earliest animals in the fossil record. Read More ›