Tag: conservation

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AlphaFold, biochemistry, central dogma, condensates, conservation, Darwinian theory, devolution, disease, DNA, evolutionarily conserved, function, genetics, genome, IDR-ome, intrinsically disordered proteins, intrinsically disordered regions, Levinthal paradox, mutations, original design, PNAS, polypeptides, proteins, proteome, sequence conservation, unevolved}

Active Matter: Newfound Order in “Disordered” Proteins

_{David Coppedge
June 25, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Intrinsically disordered regions of proteins may not be functionless after all. They appear to be multi-functional. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, algorithm, Ariel Chipman, Artificial Selection, balancing selection, BioEssays, Cambrian Explosion, co-option, conservation, Darwin Devolves, Dyna Rochmyaningsih, evolution, Galápagos Islands, gene duplication, genetic drift, genetic mutations, Hugo de Vries, hybridization, introgression, John Sanford, John Templeton Foundation, magic, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, mount improbable, Mutant Ninja Turtles, natural selection, negative selection, Owen D. Jones, personification, Phillip E. Johnson, polyploidy, process, programming, pterosaur, purifying selection, Richard Lewontin, Robert Hazen, Spiderman, stabilizing selection, Stuff Happens Law, subfunctionalization, survival of the fittest, The Design Inference, Tom Bethell, tuatara, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionists Need a Refresher Course in Natural Selection

_{David Coppedge
June 9, 2026

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

12}

Abuses of the concept of natural selection abound not only in science news but in scientific papers in major journals as well. It’s time for a remedial course. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
May 11, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, annotation, automated sequence annotation programs, bachelors, biologists, biology, common descent, conservation, evolution, evolutionary conservation, functional status, gymnasium, intelligent design, John Mattick, Nature (journal), neologisms, open reading frame, peptide, phone number, protein, shared inter-taxon similarity}

“Peptideins”? Give Those Shorties Another Look

_{Paul Nelson
May 11, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Picture short, lonely bachelors in rented formal wear, leaning on the wall, nervously checking their watches at the annotation dance. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Zoology
Tagged
, animal rights, birds, capitalism, China, conservation, environment, fishing, human exceptionalism, humans, hunters, hunting, insects, nature, pollution, prey, reptiles, rodents, socialism, wildlife}

“Multispecies Society”: Get Ready for Wild Animals’ Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 25, 2025

Bioethics, Zoology

5}

The everything-has-rights radicals admit the truth of human exceptionalism while denying that it exists. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 30, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, colonialism, conservation, duties, environmentalism, indigenous people, mountains, nature rights, New Zealand, powers, public policy, responsibilities, rights, Santa Monica, Yellowstone}

This Mountain Is Now a “Person” with “Rights” and Even “Responsibilities”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 30, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate

2}

And what responsibilities can the mountain possibly assume? Can it be sued for an avalanche? Ridiculous! Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, conservation, courts, indigenous wisdom, legal standing, London, nature rights, rights, shipping, whales, windmills}

Now It’s “Whale Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

As often is the case in nature rights activism, “indigenous wisdom” is invoked as somehow superior to modern conservation. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, California, Cambridge University Press, conservation, design filter, endangered species, Kenneth Miller, nature, Nature (journal), scientific materialism, self-censorship, specification, The Design Inference, wildfires, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

“Move Along, Nothing to See Here”: What Happens When You Challenge a Dominant Narrative

_{Jonathan Witt
June 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

9}

William Dembski no longer has to be coy about the challenge his design filter poses for modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 28, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Ecology
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", anesthesia, astrobiology, Biomimetics, blood, blood vessels, circulation, coacervates, conservation, genes, George Washington Carver, heart, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, James Tour, Joana Xavier, Johannes Kepler, Leslie Orgel, memory, methodological naturalism, Michael Faraday, mRNA vaccines, Murchison meteorite, Nick Lane, paradigm shift, Paul Nelson, proteins, reverse-engineering, RNA world, Robert Boyle, Robert Shapiro, scientific revolution, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Susan Mazur, Systems Biology, University College London, veins, William Harvey}

From Nature, a Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

_{David Coppedge
February 28, 2024

Biochemistry, Ecology, Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science

12}

The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Chemical Society, apoptosis, centrioles, checkpoints, chromosomes, conservation, DNA, error correction, evolution, genetic information, histones, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, junk DNA, mitosis, organelles, RNA, University of Basel, zebras}

In Life, Checkpoints and Error Correction Defy Darwinian Explanations

_{David Coppedge
August 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Living cells employ forward-thinking and backward-thinking strategies. Both strategies require planning outside the immediate situation. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 30, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, climate change, conservation, currency, inflation, Lake Erie, mushrooms, nature rights, New York Times, personhood, rights, squirrels, United States, Utah, Western civilization}

Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 30, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

5}

If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers. Read More ›