Tag: DNA

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured2, analogy, atheism, Bible, biological information, Closer to Truth, complexity, DNA, dogmatism, Douglas Adams, functional specificity, God of the philosophers, improbability, information, intelligent design, Matt Dillahunty, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, New York University, Piers Morgan, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Stephen Meyer, The Telegraph, theists, Thomas Nagel, universe}

Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2026

Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arguments, causal adequacy, cosmic fine-tuning, digital information, DNA, evidence, explanations, God of the gaps, ignorance, information, intelligent cause, intelligent design, materialistic processes, mind, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, specified information, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, understanding}

Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

4}

True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, biology, causal adequacy, creative intelligence, croissants, David Hume, DNA, fine-tuning, functional specificity, God Hypothesis, God of the gaps, hieroglyphics, improbability, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, J. P. Moreland, Kentucky Derby, living systems, materialistic explanations, Michael Shermer, natural world, parsimony, philosophy, physics, Pierre-Simon Laplace, placeholder, postulations, quantum cosmology, racehorse, religious scientists, scientific advance, scribe of the gaps, Seattle Slew II, specified information, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, universe, vera causa, William Lane Craig}

Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

32}

Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __trending, beginning, complex entities, cosmology, designer, DNA, Dunkirk, Energy, engines, evolutionary theory, fine-tuning, French recipes, infinite regress, information, initial entropy, intelligent design, matter, mind, neo-Darwinian mechanism, Ockham’s razor, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, software, Stephen Meyer, Stonehenge, The God Delusion, The Telegraph, uncaused cause, universe, worldview}

Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
September 29, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, alphabet, amino acids, beta lactamase, Brandeis University, cells, chaperones, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzymes, Gemini, genome, HeliScrew4, helix, improbability, indels, Karl Popper, peptides, PNAS, polypeptides, promissory materialism, protocell, random letters, randomness, razor wire, selective pressure, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, supersecondary structure, tandem repeats, The Self and Its Brain, UC San Francisco}

Testing the Creativity of Randomness

_{David Coppedge
September 15, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

The evolutionary part of this paper relies on wishful thinking. What “could” or “might” happen occurs only in their evolutionary imaginations. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, amino acids, cells, cellular metabolism, chemical reactions, chemists, DNA, early Earth, Energy, energy production, failed models, information processing, investigators, mind, nanozymes, nucleotide chains, origin of life, overinterpretation, particles, peptides, photosynthesis, polymerization, Protein World, proteins, Research (journal), RNA, RNA world, self-replicating RNA, thermodynamics, Yongdong Jin}

Nonsense with “Nanozymes”: New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress

_{Brian Miller
September 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

Yongdong Jin proposes that microscopic particles, which he terms nanozymes, orchestrated many of the major steps in the synthesis of the first cell. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, AlphaFold3, apoptosis, bioinformatic data, cancer, cancer cells, carboxy-terminal domain, cell death, cells, chemotherapy, chromatin, Darwin’s Black Box, DNA, DNA replication, double helix, enzymes, Freed-Hardeman University, intrinsically disordered regions, Irreducible Complexity, isoforms, Joe Deweese, mutants, proteins, replication, TOP2A, TOP2B, topoisomerases, toxic side effects}

How Irreducible Complexity Can Help with Cancer Drug Research

_{Emily Reeves
August 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Medicine

8}

Topoisomerases are molecular machines that play a critical role in resolving DNA tangles and supercoiling generated during DNA replication. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 18, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amplification, bacterial cells, citrate, citT, Dave Farina, dctA, DNA, Educating Dave Farina (series), Escherichia coli, genes, Irreducible Complexity, long-term evolution experiment, Michael Behe, mutations, neutral mutations, Richard Lenski, rnk, Scott Minnich, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Dave Farina on the Lenski Experiment

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 18, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

7}

Farina offers the Lenski experiment as a purported counterexample to irreducible complexity. Read More ›

Glittering dna helix with golden particles in a biotech concept

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 11, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, acetyl tags, biochemical functionality, BioEssays, biological codes, Biological Theory, biology, code, control, convergence, DNA, ENCODE project, evolution, First Things, Forrest Mims, Francis Collins, genes, Genome Biology and Evolution, Human Genome Project, information, information compression, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, methyl tags, Michael Levin, mind, ontogenetic information, paradigm shift, phylogenetic signal, phylogenomic conflict, Platonism, random mutations, repetitive DNA, Richard Sternberg, Science (journal), science stopper, Simon Conway Morris, Taking Stock at 30 (series), Third Way of Evolution, Tufts University, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Thirty Years of Intelligent Design Predicting the Unexpected Genome

_{Casey Luskin
August 11, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

10}

Jonathan Wells’s review was important, but it only scratches the surface of information in biology outside of the DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 7, 2026

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, architecture, art galleries, arts, beauty, behavior, biomaxxing, Bryan Johnson, chromatin, concert halls, culture, DNA, eating, environment, epigenetics, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, exercise, genes, gym, histones, literature, longevity, memory, Michael Denton, museums, music, neurocognitive capacity, Samantha Boardman, stress, Thomas P. Gills, Thomas Woodward, University College London, Wall Street Journal}

Epigenetics and the Arts Lover

_{Peter Biles
August 7, 2026

Arts, Intelligent Design

4}

Here is yet another clue about how we are both spiritual and physical beings. The two realms are connected in mysterious and remarkable ways. Read More ›