Tag: DNA repair

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cellular life, co-origination, cofactors, David A. Hullender, DNA repair, elementary particles, Elsevier, Elsevier journals, enzymes, evolution, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, junkyard tornado, minimal living cell, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma mycoides, naturalistic evolutionary processes, Olen R. Brown, oxidative phosphorylation, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, universe, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, vitamins, Why Evolution Is True}

To a Pro-Intelligent Design Paper, Biologist Jerry Coyne Reacts with Question-Begging

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The paper seeks to elucidate the plausibility of naturalistic evolutionary processes generating a minimal living cell. Read More ›

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post

Author
Rob Stadler

Date
June 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, cells, circular causality, complex specified information, DNA, DNA repair, DNA replication, enzymes, evolution, information, intelligent design, Long Story Short, metabolism, mitochondria, Mycoplasma mycoides, nucleotides, proteins, protocells, radiation, repair mechanisms, Ribosome, RNA}

Video: Life Can’t Exist Without Repair Mechanisms, and That’s a Problem for Origin-of-Life Theories

_{Rob Stadler
June 26, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Following the replication of DNA, a daily barrage of DNA damage occurs during normal operating conditions. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animation, bacteria, CAD/CAM, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DNA, DNA repair, evolution, gears, Germany, Helmholtz Association, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, microbe, molecular machines, mutations, Nature (journal), Research, rotors}

RuvAB: Another Elegant Molecular Motor Visualized

_{David Coppedge
September 15, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

This machine looks like something out of a CAD/CAM project, but it’s found in bacteria. 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
January 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, anti-science, Darwinism, DNA repair, epigenetics, evolutionary time, fish, foresight, health, human genome, intelligent design, mechanism, medical research, New York University, PNAS, salmon, strengths and weaknesses, students, system}

DNA Repair, Fish Shape, Epigenetics: Science Advances, Darwin-Free

_{Science and Culture
January 15, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

7}

According to a robotically repeated talking point favored by evolution proponents, loyal adherence to Darwin’s theory is crucial to the future of biological research. Read More ›

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post

Date
April 17, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, DNA repair, E. coli, evolution, fungi, HGT, honeybees, horizontal gene transfer, hybridization, ID the Future, introgression, Michael Behe, microbiome, mutations, PLOS Biology, PNAS, radiation, RNA polymerase, Stanford University, Taiwan, University of Barcelona}

Testing Behe’s Principle that Darwin Devolves

_{Science and Culture
April 17, 2019

Evolution

9}

We looked at some papers claiming to see evolution happening in real time, to see if natural selection has actually invented a new function, or just broke an existing function. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 22, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Amber Rice, bacteria, citrate, Darwin Devolves, degradative mutations, DNA, DNA repair, Dogs, E. coli, evolution, Evolution (journal), First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, glucose, Greg Lang, Journal of Molecular Evolution, laboratory, Lehigh University, Lenski lab, loss-of-function mutations, machines, malaria, microbes, nature, Plasmodium falciparum, polar bear, proteins, Richard Lenski, wooly mammoth, yeast}

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1

_{Michael Behe
March 22, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Their review pretty much completely misses the mark. Nonetheless, it is a good illustration of how sincere-yet-perplexed professional evolutionary biologists view the data. Read More ›

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post

Date
February 4, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, “selfish gene”, anomalies, bacterial infection, Cretaceous Period, Darwin Day, Darwinism, DNA repair, Evolution (journal), finches, humans, hybrids, Nature (journal), open reading frames, paleontology, parrots}

A Theory in Crisis: Darwinian Anomalies Accumulate

_{Science and Culture
February 4, 2019

Evolution

8}

Darwin Day is just a week from today! To help celebrate, here are a few recent findings that contradict Darwinism. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 10, 2019

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, archaea, asexual reproduction, central dogma, DNA repair, epigenetics, eukaryotes, junk DNA, lipid bilayer, materialists, microbes, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, PNAS, proteins, pseudogenes, ribonucleotides, RNA, Science (journal), Yale University}

Genetics and Epigenetics — New Problems for Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 10, 2019

Botany, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

7}

Scientists watched microbes inherit extreme acid resistance in Yellowstone hot springs not through genetics, but through epigenetics. Read More ›

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post

Date
November 19, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Alzheimer’s, apoptosis, Biological Information: New Perspectives, brain, cells, Cornell University, Darwin Devolves, DNA repair, Douglas Axe, eggs, Immune System, inflammation, intelligent design, John Sanford, memory, mice, Michael Behe, mutations, National Institutes of Health, New York University, oocyte, pathogen, Quanta Magazine, Research, Robert J. Marks II, skin, stem cells, UC Davis, William A. Dembski}

Memory — New Research Reveals Cells Have It, Too

_{Science and Culture
November 19, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

A memory of past events helps a cell learn how to respond to recurring threats and protect the genome. Read More ›