Tag: directed evolution

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, atheism, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response}

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal behavior, brain, Caenorhabditis elegans, connectome, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, dopamine, egg laying, evolution, fasting, feeding, information, intelligent design, interneurons, Journal of Neurochemistry, learning, mating, memory, motor neurons, movement, Nature (journal), nematode, Neural Networks, neurons, neuropeptide, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, sensory neurons, serotonin, synapses}

“Directed Evolution”: The Tiniest Brain Is Not Simple

_{Eric Cassell
March 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

9}

Even a cursory examination of the connectome shows the complexity of the brain, despite its tiny size. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 28, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambridge University, chemists, Darrel Falk, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, early Earth, Gerald F. Joyce, prebiotic conditions, Retraction Crisis, Return of the God Hypothesis, ribozymes, RNA self-replication, RNA world, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Times Literary Supplement}

Darrel Falk Badly Mischaracterizes RNA World Experiments. . .and Stephen Meyer

_{Brian Miller
May 28, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Falk claims that Meyer misled his readers by not mentioning an allegedly significant newer result. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Engineering
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, creationism, directed evolution, Douglas Axe, education, evolution, Frances Arnold, intelligent design, Matti Leisola, media, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), New York Times, Nobel Prize, rational design}

Word Games with Evolutionists

_{David Klinghoffer
October 5, 2018

Chemistry, Engineering, Evolution

2}

Coming from the National Center for Science Education or the New York Times, this is typical. Read More ›

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Author
Matti Leisola

Date
October 4, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Artificial Selection, bacteria, Barry Hall, bioengineering, biofuels, biotechnology, Caltech, directed evolution, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Frances Arnold, gene, Heretic, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, New York Times, Nobel Prize, pharmaceuticals, proteins, rational design, The Edge of Evolution, theistic evolution}

How the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Harnessed Intelligent Design

_{Matti Leisola
October 4, 2018

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

5}

There is one point of confusion in descriptions of this year’s prize winners. It’s the talk of “directed evolution.” Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amino-acid sequences, Caltech, Cambridge, cells, Darwinian evolution, design, directed evolution, enzymes, evolution, Frances Arnold, genes, intelligent design, New York Times, Nobel Prize, protein evolution, selection, University of Missouri}

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Intelligent Design?

_{Douglas Axe
October 3, 2018

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

3}

The problem these efforts face in the lab is exactly the problem faced by Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism in the wild. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
February 13, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, Dan Tawfik, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, DNA, E. coli, enzymes, frameshift, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Matti Leisola, mutations, nylon, nylonase, protein folding, rational design, regulatory elements, Richard Lenski, Weizmann Institute}

Why Darwinism Can’t Accomplish Innovation or Explain Origins

_{Ann Gauger
February 13, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

When one wants to modify an enzyme for a new function, as Matti Leisola explains in his new book, there are two ways to go about it. Read More ›