Tag: elegance

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
April 28, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, brewer’s yeast, Complex III, complexity, electrochemistry, electrons, elegance, Energy, engineers, flavin adenine dinucleotide, intelligent agent, mitochondrial membrane, mitochondrial respiratory chain, molecular machines, natural selection, organic chemistry, oxygen, protons, quantum tunneling, reverse-engineering, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, semiquinone, ubiquinol}

The Nanoscale Engineering of Complex III

_{Emily Reeves
April 28, 2026

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If I put on my reverse-engineering hat, this enzyme looks like the work of a designer who deeply understood electrochemistry and quantum tunneling. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon-based life, ecosystem, elegance, Freeman Dyson, George Wald, glaciers, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, Linus Pauling, metabolism, mitochondria, nitrogen, nucleus, ocean, oxygen, parsimony, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water}

Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2024

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

25}

In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Brian Miller, careers, Center for Science and Culture, curiosity, elegance, Emily Kurlinski, Emily Sandico, friendship, humanities, ID the Future, intelligent design, interview, Natural Sciences, natural world, nature, order, podcast, pseudonym, Research, science, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design}

Transformative: “Mary,” a PhD Biochemistry Student, on the Summer Seminars on ID

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 8, 2024

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design, Science Education

2}

Why does she use a pseudonym in the interview? You may be able to guess, but listen in to hear her explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 8, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Meaningful World, cosmos, Darwinism, elegance, evolution, faith, genius, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, mystery, podcast}

Nature Reveals Not Just Design but Genius

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 8, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

2}

After studying the hallmarks of genius in humans, Witt and Wiker looked for the same characteristics in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bacillus subtilis, beauty, biological systems, design triangulation, E. coli, elegance, enzymes, evolution, fitness, function, gene expression, genetic information, intelligent design, Neo-Darwinism, optimality, precision, proteins, robustness, speakers, sporulation, Stanford University, transmission}

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

8}

In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, chemotaxis, complexity, computer science, degradation, elegance, engineers, evolution, evolutionary biologists, gears, gene expression, hook, intelligent design, peer-reviewed literature, proteins, Science (journal), stator, Waldean Schulz}

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
September 10, 2021

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

6}

The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Read More ›

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Date
August 11, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, elegance, Emily Kurlinski, friendship, ID the Future, interview, natural world, order, podcast, pseudonym, Research, Seattle, students, Summer Seminars}

Intelligent Design and the “Transformative” Summer Seminar: A Student Reflects

_{Science & Culture
August 11, 2020

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

1}

What about the charge that ID is a “curiosity killer,” tempting scientists to answer every natural mystery with a shrug and a “God did it”? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 15, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __cedited, algorithms, artificial intelligence, beauty, biological information, Children of Light, computers, creativity, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, elegance, George Gilder, information, information theory, intelligent design, Life After Google, machines, Michael Denton, surprise}

Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise

_{David Klinghoffer
October 15, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

3}

Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
June 29, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, aesthetics, anthropomorphizing, balance, beauty, birds, elegance, harmony, peacock, proportion, sexual selection, UC Irvine}

Do Animals Recognize Beauty?

_{Ann Gauger
June 29, 2018

Intelligent Design

4}

One must separate beauty from mate choice in order to tell if animals recognize beauty. Read More ›