Tag: egg

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
May 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, chess pieces, complexity, concertos, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary (series), double helix, egg, electric cords, 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

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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
, algorithmic information, algorithms, carbohydrates, cognition, David Klinghoffer, death, deformations, development, DNA, egg, embryo, embryology, fetus, genes, immaterial genome, infant, information, instructions, lipids, mutations, Mycoplasma genitalium, Plato, Plato's Revenge, preformationist, proteins, Richard Sternberg, RNA, simulation software package, trans-computational, 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, intent, optimality, optimization, Princeton University, William Bialek}

Optimization: A Theoretical Principle That Is Predictive for Biology

_{Emily Reeves
September 19, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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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
, Alabama Supreme Court, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, independence, 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, diploid cells, egg, embryonic development, fallopian tube, fertilization, follicle, germ cells, glycoprotein, humans, intelligent design, meiosis, oogenesis, ovulation, ovum, plasma membrane, seminal fluid, sperm cells, uterus, zona pellucida}

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

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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, automaton, chicken, chicken-and-egg problem, complexity, Cyanobacteria, DNA, egg, elementary particles, evolution, Granville Sewell, instruction manual, intelligent design, John von Neumann, Model T, natural processes, paradox, Robert Gange, 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, Chronicles of Narnia, egg, English literature, human life, intelligent design, materialism, Mere Christianity, philosophical idealism, poetry, The Magician's Twin, theism, theology, universal evolutionism}

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 ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
July 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, carpenter, cells, chemical reactions, cytoplasm, egg, ententional, enzymes, function, glucose, hammer, insulin, life, materialism, materialists, natural selection, nature, oxygen, purpose, randomness, science of purpose, scientists, sperm, structure, teleology, telos, Terrence Deacon}

Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 3, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, acrosome, antibodies, ATP, capacitation, cilia, clotting factors, contraceptives, egg, enzymes, evolution, fibrin, flagellum, foresight, fructose, head, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, middle piece, reproductive tract, seminal fluid, seminal vesicles, sperm cells, zona pellucida}

The Design of the Seminal Fluid and Sperm Capacitation

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 3, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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There is no cause in the universe that is known to have such a capacity of foresight other than intelligent design. Read More ›