Tag: Eugene Koonin

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, mad cow disease, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientists, variation}

How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

_{Kirk Durston
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Life Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 14, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, athens, early Earth, Epicurus, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Journal of the American Chemical Society, molecular biology, probabilities, RNA}

Is Epicurus Smiling?

_{Paul Nelson
January 14, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Eugene Koonin pointed out that any abiogenesis scenario requires a cosmological background theory against which any local event probabilities must be evaluated. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 1, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arlin Stoltzfus, Armin Moczek, charity, conferences, cultural evolution, Darwinian theory, Douglas Axe, epigenetics, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary development, evolutionists, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Facebook, Ford Doolittle, Günter Bechly, Günter Wagner, Indiana University, intelligent design, Maryland, Modern Synthesis, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Paul Nelson, plasticity, Royal Society, status, Stephen Buranyi, Stephen Meyer, tax credit, technical journals, The Guardian}

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2022: Evolutionists Admit Their Field’s Failures

_{David Klinghoffer
January 1, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

If you’ve ever owned an automobile toward the end of its life, the situation will be familiar. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
September 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, AlphaFold, dictionary, DNA, English, Eugene Koonin, French National Centre for Scientific Research, genes, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, protein folding, ribosomes, sequence space, virosphere, viruses, waiting-time problem}

Why AlphaFold Has Not Solved the Protein-Folding Problem

_{Paul Nelson
September 29, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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The online database AlphaFold represents an amazing breakthrough by any measure of the word “breakthrough.” Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biomolecules, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), genetic information, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, James Tour, life, National Center for Biotechnology Information, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, prebiotic Earth, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Stephen Meyer, Walter Bradley}

An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 29, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Consider what five prestigious origin-of-life thinkers say about the current status of origin-of-life research. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", ad hoc hypotheses, Big Think, Dartmouth College, David Klinghoffer, Eugene Koonin, Evolution News, First Cause, Gottfried Leibniz, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, Marcello Gleiser, multiverse, universe}

Physicist: “The Multiverse Is a Lot Like God”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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I have to admit it makes me smile to think Professor Gleiser’s thoughts ahead of him. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Arlin Stoltzfus, Armin Moczek, charity, conferences, cultural evolution, Darwinian theory, epigenetics, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary development, evolutionists, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Facebook, Ford Doolittle, Günter Bechly, Günter Wagner, Indiana University, intelligent design, Maryland, Modern Synthesis, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Paul Nelson, plasticity, Royal Society, status, Stephen Buranyi, Stephen Meyer, tax credit, technical journals, The Guardian}

Donate Darwinism for a Tax Credit? Evolutionists Admit Their Field’s Failures

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

6}

If you’ve ever owned an automobile toward the end of its life, the situation will be familiar. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
April 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alan Turing, Arizona State University, ATP, Charles Darwin, DNA, English, enzymes, Eugene Koonin, evolution, functional synonyms, intelligent design, laptop computer, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, macroscale, memory, National Center for Biotechnology Information, neo-Darwinians, PNAS, RNA, Sara Walker, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Tree of Life}

Sara Walker and Her Crew Publish the Most Interesting Biology Paper of 2022 (So Far, Anyway)

_{Paul Nelson
April 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Universal functional requirements, but without the identity of material components — sounds like design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", biologists, Eugene Koonin, ideology, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, multiverse, universe}

The Multiverse Is Some Scientists’ “God of the Gaps”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This brand of scientific ideology requires a “God of the gaps” — Eugene Koonin’s “present model” — to explain away mysteries like the origin of life. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, biogeography, Biology Direct, cells, discontinuity, Douglas Theobald, embryology, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, intelligent design, mechanisms of evolution, paleontology, phyla, protein folds, rafting, Theistic Evolution (book), transitional forms, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry, viruses}

Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

_{Casey Luskin
June 11, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Mathematics

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For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Read More ›