Tag: CELS 2021

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 28, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, agnostics, Ann Gauger, atheism, CELS 2021, Center for Science and Culture, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, materialistic philosophy, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, Ola Hössjer, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

The Year in Review: Three Major Advances for Intelligent Design

_{Brian Miller
December 28, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The situation resembles a poorly constructed dam holding back water that is continuously rising. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 4, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body size, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Drosophila, eggs, embryo, fruit flies, gravity well, insect wings, intelligent design, macromutations, metabolism, natural genetic engineering, overpopulation, phenotype, phenotypic plasticity, stochasticity, transposable elements}

Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
October 4, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 25, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotics, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, environmental conditions, evolution, evolvability, information, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, neo-Darwinian evolution, physiology, sensors, waiting-time problem}

The Design Connection in Biological Tracking Systems

_{Brian Miller
September 25, 2021

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If organisms resulted from haphazard undirected processes, their design constraints would be few and highly flexible. Read More ›

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Date
September 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, bacterial flagellum, biologists, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, engineering principles, engineers, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Steve Laufmann, Systems Biology}

Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

_{Science and Culture
September 24, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biophysicists, cave fish, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, dog breeds, engineering model, environmental conditions, evolutionary theory, gene regulatory network, hair, intelligent design, James Shapiro, maize, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, sodium, temperature, yeast}

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

_{Brian Miller
September 24, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 31, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design logic, engineers, fitness, fitness landscape, genes, genotype, height, intelligent design, living systems, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, physiology}

Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
August 31, 2021

Anatomy, Engineering, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 23, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, emergence, evolutionary mechanism, intelligent design, Michael Behe, proteins, Reductionism, Stephen Meyer, synthetic biology, Systems Biology}

End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

_{Brian Miller
August 23, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Read More ›

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Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bioRxiv, CELS 2021, CRISPR, DNA, Emily Reeves, epigenetics, evolution, finches, gametes, genetic information, geneticists, hybridization, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Methanoperedens, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, New Scientist, organelles, Peter and Rosemary Grant, PNAS, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen, zygote}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
August 13, 2021

Evolution

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Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›

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Date
July 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alleles, CELS 2021, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, Darwinian theory, evolution, Germany, hybridization, mutations, Science Advances, Stephen Jay Gould, U.C. Berkeley}

Recasting Darwin Stories into Engineering Models

_{Science and Culture
July 2, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin gets credit by default for changes in organisms that should be seen instead as engineered products of foresight. Read More ›

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Date
June 21, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
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, anti-fragility, Brian Miller, CELS 2021, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwinians, events, Evolution News, evolutionary biologists, functional requirements, genes, giraffes, historical sciences, horizontal gene transfer, information processing, intelligent design, laptop computer, Mars rover, Michael Behe, modularity, NASA, Paul Nelson, regulatory elements, reverse-engineering, robustness, specifications, The Blind Watchmaker, toys}

Biology as Engineering: The Way Forward

_{Science and Culture
June 21, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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A giraffe grows from a zygote to an 18-foot-tall adult while keeping its organs and systems coordinated. Limits to variation is a significant point to clarify. Read More ›