Tag: collagen

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. G. Werner, apatite, aquamarine, Australia, bacteria, bone, calcium, collagen, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, dinosaurs, enamel, fluoridated water, fluoride toothpaste, food, fungi, geology, homonyms, Howard Glicksman, igneous rocks, lava, magma, metamorphic rocks, Michael Denton, microbes, minerals, Mohs hardness scale, osteocytes, phosphorus, Privileged Species, Quartz, Secrets of the Human Body, sharks, teeth, Tyrannosaurus rex}

How We Bite with Apatite: The Wonders of a Hard Mineral

_{David Coppedge
September 5, 2025

Geology, Intelligent Design

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Explore the features of a remarkable mineral erupted from volcanoes that is found in our teeth. How did it get there? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, architecture, arthropods, astronauts, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian strata, collagen, Current Biology, DNA, epithelial tissue, European Union, intelligent design, Mars, self-organization, spicules, sponges, temperature, termite mounds, termites, vertebrates}

Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

_{David Coppedge
August 3, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

8}

Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 26, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Andreas Vesalius, cancer, collagen, connective tissue, immune response, intelligent design, internal organs, junk DNA, nerves, New Scientist, organs, packaging, sensations, spontaneous generation, vestigial structures}

Fascia, Your Body’s Fashionable “New” Organ

_{David Coppedge
May 26, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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It’s not often that a new functional organ is found in the human body, considering that everything has been dissected and drawn for centuries. Read More ›

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post

Date
May 4, 2021

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, blood clotting, cancer, collagen, Darwin's Black Box, diseases, DNA repair, evolution, foresight, glycoprotein, glycosylation, health, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Peking University, photosynthesis, PNAS, quantum mechanics}

Contingency Planning in the Cell Affirms Design

_{Science and Culture
May 4, 2021

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

When sunlight is adequate, leaves are happy. On some days, though, there can be too much of a good thing. Read More ›

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post

Date
June 14, 2019

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, auxin, blind chance, chemical signals, collagen, Darwinians, Fibonacci sequence, genes, Golden Ratio, University of Tokyo}

Plant Spirals Finally Solved?

_{Science and Culture
June 14, 2019

Botany, Life Sciences, Mathematics

8}

The Fibonacci spirals in plants have long attracted scientists and puzzled them as well. How do they form? Read More ›

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Date
June 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __k-review, bats, bird song, birds, chromosomes, clades, climate change, collagen, crocodilians, Current Biology, Darwinism, evolution, Flight, genome, Immune System, intelligence, light, mammals, Michael Gross, migration, phylogeny, PNAS, positive selection, syrinx, transcriptome}

Birds and Bats: How Bright Is Evolutionary Light?

_{Science and Culture
June 6, 2019

Evolution, Reproductive Science

8}

The media are generous with claims that new findings “shed light” on evolution. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 5, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Rare Earth
Tagged
, __k-review, bromine, Bronze Age, calcium, carbon, chlorine, collagen, Donald Brownlee, Enceladus, Europa, hydrogen, intelligent design, Iron Age, Jupiter, magnesium, Michael Denton, Milky Way, nitrogen, oxygen, Periodic Table, Peter Ward, phosphorus, potassium, rare earth elements, Saturn, Science (journal), sodium, Stone Age, sulfur, supernova, The Privileged Planet, The Wonder of Water, Vanderbilt University}

Rare Earth Elements and Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
March 5, 2019

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Rare Earth

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Can we explain human technology merely by supernova explosions and blind chance? In rare earth elements, we find hints of a better explanation. Read More ›

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Date
March 26, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, basketball, bone, brain, Canada, collagen, design constraint, eyes, Howard Glicksman, Irreducible Complexity, macroscale, molecular machines, Nanoscale, piano, running, Scientific Reports, tendons, tissue, walking}

Tendons Are Irreducibly Complex

_{Science and Culture
March 26, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

A simple tissue we take for granted turns out to represent another example of irreducible complexity in the human body. Read More ›