Tag: Craig Venter

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 21, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alcohol, Assembly Theory, challenge, Craig Venter, drinking, Harvard University, Hector Zenil, hype, James Tour, King’s College London, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Lee Cronin, LUCA, natural processes, negligence, Rice University, scientific community, tweeting, University of Glasgow}

James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin to Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory

_{Brian Miller
March 21, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

After Tour publicly quoted Cronin’s assessment of the field, Cronin responded by claiming he was speaking “tongue-in-cheek.” Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
April 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cell membranes, cells, complexity, Craig Venter, DNA, E. coli, Energy, evolution, glucose, intelligent design, Long Story Short, matter, Mycoplasma genitalium, prokaryotes, protocells, ribose, Richard Lenski, YouTube videos}

Origin of Life: Top Three Problems with Protocells

_{Rob Stadler
April 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

Protocells place origin-of-life researchers in an awkward position: relying upon an imaginary entity to sustain their belief that only matter and energy exist. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Linnaeus, common ancestry, Craig Venter, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution (journal), genetic engineering, geneticists, Georges Cuvier, historical sciences, intelligent design, molecular biologists, Mycoplasma, phylogenetics, primates, scientists, separate ancestry, statistics, Summer Seminar, systematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 13, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", bacterial flagellum, Big Bang, Christianity, cosmic design, cosmic fine-tuning, Craig Venter, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, evolution, Francis Collins, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Denton, New Atheists, non-coding DNA, physical constants, Richard Dawkins, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, testability, The Language of God, Wired Magazine}

Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

_{Jonathan Witt
October 13, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 13, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, bacteria, bioengineering, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, corn, Craig Venter, CRISPR-Cas9, design filter, Design Inference, DNA, Dogs, Douglas Axe, ETH Zurich, Galápagos Islands, genotype, intelligent design, maize, Mars rover, natural, Nature (journal), No Free Lunch, Paul Nelson, phenotype, Roger Olsen, Technion, The Design Revolution, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski, wolves}

Blurring the Line Between Natural and Artificial

_{Science and Culture
March 13, 2020

Intelligent Design

9}

As technology mimics nature, at what point might future investigators be unsure about natural versus intelligent causes? Read More ›

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post

Date
January 8, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, 3D printing, amino acids, ancient Greeks, astronauts, bacterium, blueprint, Craig Venter, DNA, information, Internet, Internet of things, Nature Biotechnology, New Scientist, polyester, proteins, rabbits, scientists, self-replicating machines, steganography, UCLA, University of Oregon}

DNA of Things: Embedding Machines with Replication Data

_{Science and Culture
January 8, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

In 1901, divers brought up from an ancient shipwreck the first part of the Antikythera mechanism made by Greek inventors. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, cells, Craig Venter, DNA, Douglas Axe, human soul, information, intelligent design, James Tour, materialism, materialists, molecules, narrator, protocells, researchers, Science Uprising, scientists, Stephen Meyer, synthetic organic chemistry}

On the Origin of Life, Science Uprising Helps Break a Poisonous Spell

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2019

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

Professor Tour is a personality to be reckoned with, pouring steely scorn on his colleagues who study, and mislead, about the origin of life. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, cells, Craig Venter, DNA, Douglas Axe, human soul, information, intelligent design, James Tour, materialism, materialists, molecules, narrator, protocells, researchers, Science Uprising, scientists, Stephen Meyer, synthetic organic chemistry}

On the Origin of Life, Science Uprising Helps Break a Poisonous Spell

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2019

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

Professor Tour is a personality to be reckoned with, pouring steely scorn on his colleagues who study, and mislead, about the origin of life. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, abiogenesis, Angewandte Chemie, Bill Gates, Cornelius Hunter, Craig Venter, Denyse O'Leary, DNA, James Tour, Mind Matters, Richard Dawkins, RNA, RNA world, Science Uprising, software}

Seeking a Way Around RNA World, New Study Only Increases Perplexity of Abiogenesis

_{David Klinghoffer
June 20, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

The origin of biological information is a mystery not so much highlighted by a comparison with software as downplayed by it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 17, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, atom, author, Bill Gates, Caltech, common sense, computer, Craig Venter, digital code, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, genetic information, humans, intelligent design, life, materialism, Microsoft, Milky Way, mutation/selection mechanism, programmer, programming, Richard Dawkins, software, Stephen Meyer}

New Science Uprising Episode: “Programming Without a Programmer”?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 17, 2019

Intelligent Design

3}

To evolve a protein, Douglas Axe draws a comparison to seeking out — blindfolded! — a particular atom secreted away somewhere in the Milky Way. Read More ›