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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 22, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bioluminescence, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, cnidarians, comedy, corals, credulity, entertainment, enzymes, evolution, intelligent design, just-so stories, light, Live Science, marine biology, materialists, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Smithsonian Institution}

Let There Be Bioluminescence

_{David Coppedge
May 22, 2024

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biological light switched on in the Cambrian — for what reason, evolutionists are not sure. It just happened, like all the other natural miracles. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, antibodies, atheism, beta-lactamase, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cell (journal), Christians, COVID-19, Dan Tawfik, Darrel Falk, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Explore Evolution, fossil record, Graham Budd, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, peer-reviewed literature, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, precambrian fossils, protein evolution, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, rhetoric, RNA, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, theism, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry, universe}

From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

_{Casey Luskin
May 15, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 14, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Botany
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atoms, bacteria, cofactors, copper, early Earth, Earth’s crust, enzymes, evolution, habitability, hemoglobin, intelligent design, iron ore, just-so stories, life, metals, microbes, minerals, photosynthesis}

Metals and Life — A Balancing Act

_{Eric Hedin
May 14, 2024

Biochemistry, Botany, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

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The complementary interaction between metals and life provides yet another example of our existence relying upon multiple levels of design. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Daniel Stern Cardinale, debates, DNA, dog, Dr. Dan, embryogenesis, embryonic stem cells, enzymes, evolution, function, genome, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, methylation, mouse, Nature (journal), non-coding RNAs, peer-reviewed literature, repetitive elements, Rutgers University, Science (journal), transposable elements}

From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

_{Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Sternberg, and Casey Luskin
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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On May 2, Casey Luskin had an online debate with Professor Daniel Stern Cardinale, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, early Earth, enzymes, Eric Anderson, fitness, Gerald Joyce, ID the Future, intervention, James Tour, PNAS, Research, researchers, RNA world, Salk Institute, Stephen Meyer, Washington Post}

Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", Center for Science and Culture, complexity, designer, DNA, enzymes, evidence, evolutionary processes, fiber optic cables, helicase, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Müller cells, organisms, replication, retina, topoisomerase}

Is Complexity an Argument Against Design?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 28, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Often these claims that “no designer would have done it that way” dissolve on closer inspection. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bacteria, blood vessels, body heat, body temperature, brain, catalysis, enzymes, evolution, heat, infection, inflammation, intelligent design, muscles, neurons, skin, temperature, thermostats, white blood cells}

In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 26, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The existence of thermostatic control of our body temperature is not at all surprising supposing life to be the product of a purposeful engineer. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 21, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, Cologne, convergence, Darwin's Black Box, digestion, enzymes, evolution, Germany, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, morphology, nutrients, On the Origin of Species, prey, tentacles, Utricularia, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 21, 2024

Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The paper highlights features of carnivorous plants that exhibit irreducible complexity, a characteristic of designed systems, citing the work of Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 11, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Assembly Theory, Brian Miller, carbohydrates, Dave Farina, David Klinghoffer, debates, Discovery Institute, early Earth, enzymes, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, James Tour, Lee Cronin, lipids, nucleotides, polynucleotides, polypeptides, polysaccharides, Professor Dave, Rice University, RNA, roundtable, specified information, University of Glasgow}

Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard

_{Casey Luskin
January 11, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 2, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, behavior, Big Bang, biological complexity, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, convergence, death, diversity, Douglas Axe, environmental conditions, enzymes, equilibrium, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, George Ellis, gravity, initial conditions, intelligent design, laws of nature, leaves, mass-energy, natural selection, Nature (journal), nucleotide sequences, phenotypic plasticity, proteins, quantum physics, Rope Kojonen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, stem cells, Stephen Dilley, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theistic evolution, thermodynamics}

Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology

_{Emily Reeves
January 2, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible. Read More ›