Tag: egg

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 18, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Black Box, egg, engineering, evolution, evolutionary theory, fertilization, forethought, goal, human reproduction, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, natural selection, podcast, purpose, seminal fluid, sexual reproduction, sperm, sperm capacitation}

Sexual Reproduction: Engineered for Success

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 18, 2026

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I continue a three-part discussion with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie on why sex is the queen of problems for evolutionary theory. Read More ›

Human embryo shaped like an adorable baby floating among stars and cosmic dust, symbolizing fetus development, womb, gestation, amniotic life, and pregnancy in the universe

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 5, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, anthropomorphizing, artificial gestation, Cell Press, China, egg, embryo, embryonic stem cell research, embryos, fetus, human embryos, IVF, miscarriages, MIT Technology Review:, organoids, pregnancy, Spain, Stem Cell Research, unborn children, United Kingdom, United States, uterine lining, uterus, Vermont, women}

How Far Will Experiments on the Unborn Go?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 5, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics

3}

We have been told by some bioethicists that a born baby is no different morally than a fetus, so why stop there? Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
May 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, complexity, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary (series), double helix, egg, embryo, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, intelligent design, Leonardo da Vinci, medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

_{Geoffrey Simmons
May 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, algorithms, carbohydrates, cognition, David Klinghoffer, death, development, DNA, egg, embryo, embryology, fetus, genes, immaterial genome, infant, information, instructions, lipids, mutations, Mycoplasma genitalium, Plato, Plato's Revenge, proteins, Richard Sternberg, RNA, zygote}

The Math Behind the Immaterial Genome

_{Brian Miller
April 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Scientific Reasoning

7}

While not a formal defense, this analysis aims to give readers an intuitive grasp of the reasoning behind Richard Sternberg's Platonic perspective. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
September 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, "poor design", biological systems, cells, Darwinian evolution, development, egg, embryo, foresight, fruit flies, information flow, intelligent design, optimality, optimization, Princeton University}

Optimization: A Theoretical Principle That Is Predictive for Biology

_{Emily Reeves
September 19, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

7}

Are biological mechanisms optimized, or do they function poorly, evidence of their “poor design”? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University}

The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine, Reproductive Science

8}

A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, birth, calcium ions, chromosomes, cilia, egg, embryonic development, fallopian tube, fertilization, glycoprotein, humans, intelligent design, meiosis, ovum, seminal fluid, sperm cells, uterus}

The Exquisite Design of Egg Cells

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 8, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

7}

Oogenesis (the process of egg cell formation) begins during embryonic development when the primordial germ cells are specified. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 20, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, egg, evolutionary theory, foresight, forethought, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, podcast, sexual reproduction, sperm}

Sex: Engineered for Success

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 20, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Australia, chicken, chicken-and-egg problem, complexity, Cyanobacteria, DNA, egg, elementary particles, evolution, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, John von Neumann, Model T, natural processes, universe}

Evolution’s Chicken and Egg Problem — Explained

_{Eric Hedin
January 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The conclusion based on a mathematical analysis of self-replication is that asking which came first, the chicken or the egg, is getting way ahead of the game. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, egg, English literature, human life, intelligent design, materialism, Mere Christianity, poetry, The Magician's Twin, theism, theology}

Remembering C. S. Lewis on Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 22, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

Lewis died on this day, November 22, sixty year ago in 1963. He frequently examined the impact of modern science on human life. Read More ›