Tag: exaptation

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Cicero, constraints, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Coppedge, exaptation, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lucretius, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, natural philosophers, Neo-Darwinism, Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum, Stuart Kauffman}

Hello, Stuart Kauffman

_{Daniel Witt
January 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, beauty, Brian Miller, co-option, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, evolution, exaptation, hammer, Howard Berg, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap, natural selection, proteins, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, serendipity, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)}

Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? Consider the Bacterial Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
December 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I hope it’s clear that Kojonen’s effort to harmonize evolution and design (as he envisions it) is not so easy in the case of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
February 25, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, David Berlinski, Elizabeth Pennisi, evolution, Evolution News, exaptation, genes, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Long Term Evolution Experiment, methodology, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, proteins, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Salmonella, Science (journal)}

Näsvall et al. Demonstrates the Effectiveness of Intelligent Design

_{Ann Gauger
February 25, 2019

Intelligent Design

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The dispute started when a review in Science proposed the 2012 article by Näsvall et al. as evidence against Mike Behe’s book Darwin Devolves. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, ACLU, birds, Boston Review, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, evolution, Evolution News, exaptation, fish, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Judge John E. Jones, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, mammals, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Nathan Lents, ossicles, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal)}

Perplexing: Michael Behe’s Critics Falsely Claim He Ignores Exaptation

_{Casey Luskin
February 19, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Writing in the journal Science, reviewers Lents, Swamidass, and Lenski make a very specific, clear, strong, and unambiguous claim. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
February 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, blood-clotting cascade, Cambridge University Press, chloroquine, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, E. coli, Ernst Mayr, evolution, exaptation, Finding Darwin's God, gene duplication, hemoglobin, Hox genes, Kenneth Miller, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mammals, mutations, Nathan Lents, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, olfaction, PLoS Genetics, primates, Response to Criticism, ribose, Richard Lenski, Robert L. Summers, Russell Doolittle, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Train Wreck of a Review: A Response to Lenski et al. in Science

_{Michael Behe
February 14, 2019

Evolution

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Richard Lenski has spent decades overseeing the most extensive, most acclaimed laboratory evolution experiment conducted to date. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bats, birds, body plans, circular reasoning, Darwin Devolves, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, exaptation, feathers, fish, flippers, Hox genes, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, Michael Behe, mutations, Science (journal)}

First Review of Darwin Devolves Relies Heavily on Circular Reasoning

_{Brian Miller
February 8, 2019

Evolution

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This line of argumentation only appears compelling to those who assume from that start that the core assumptions of the standard evolutionary model are true. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 16, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Alfred Russel Wallace, architecture, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Darwinian theory, evolution, exaptation, human beings, ID the Future, intelligence, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, natural selection, podcast, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, textbook, The Human Instinct, Wesley Smith}

Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma

_{David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning

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Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.” Read More ›

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Date
April 19, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, exaptation, flippers, Georgia Tech, jellyfish, Living Waters, sea turtles, Swansea University, swimming, University of Barcelona, University of Massachusetts at Amherst}

Sea Turtles Swim Against the Darwin Current

_{Science & Culture
April 19, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Was there ever a more incongruous animal to imagine being a swimming champion? Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 24, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __tedited, assumptions, egg laying, exaptation, functional sequences, functionality, genetic similarities, junk DNA, pseudogenes, sequence alignment, synteny, vitellogenin}

The Vitellogenin Pseudogene Story: Unequally Yolked

_{Ann Gauger
May 24, 2016

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Synteny refers to how well chromosomal sequences from different species align with one another. Read More ›