Tag: fitness landscape

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, artificial inteligence, epistatic effects, evolution, evolutionary process, false science, fitness landscape, fitness score, genetic sequences, globular protein folds, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, Protein Fold Evolution Simulator, protein folds, protein sequence space, protein structure, proteins, researchers, sampling bias, simulation tool, structure prediction tools}

False Science: A Claim to Simulate Protein Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
August 6, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The researchers designed a simulation tool, and then falsely claimed that it represents the evolutionary process. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 4, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood clotting, California, Darwinism, devolution, Douglas Axe, error correction, evolutionary biologists, fitness landscape, Gaussian curves, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, metaphors, Michael Behe, mount improbable, mousetrap, North Dakota, Paris, phenotypes, PNAS, Richard Dawkins, savannah, Sewall Wright}

Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor

_{David Coppedge
January 4, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

What if the structure of the landscape is like a block of Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antimalarial drugs, Casey Luskin, chloroquine, chloroquine resistance, Darwin Devolves, drugs, evolution, evolutionary processes, fitness landscape, genotype, HIV, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, phenotype, Plasmodium falciparum, Professor Dave, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I wonder whether Farina has in fact read Behe’s book for himself, or whether he is relying upon others, such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 31, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design logic, engineers, fitness, fitness landscape, genes, genotype, height, intelligent design, living systems, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, physiology}

Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
August 31, 2021

Anatomy, Engineering, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", bioinformatics, biological structures, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, junk DNA, knee, Living with Darwin, Nathan Lents, optimality, pelvis, Philip Kitcher, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia}

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

_{Brian Miller
August 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, active information, BIO-Complexity, Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón, Darwinian evolution, E. coli, equilibrium, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness landscape, genetic algorithms, genome, Jonathan Bartlett, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mathematician, Michael Behe, mutations, Richard Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski}

New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information

_{Casey Luskin
May 13, 2020

Evolution

7}

William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 17, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, bacterial flagellum, cooption, Darwin Devolves, degradation, Douglas Axe, Drosophila, E. coli, eye, filament, fitness landscape, Harvard University, hook, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, motor, Nicholas Matzke, propeller, proteins}

Advances in Biology Discredit Argument that Cooption Can Explain Irreducible Complexity

_{Brian Miller
December 17, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

13}

One of most popular attempts at explaining the flagellum via cooption was developed by Nicholas Matzke. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 8, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, convergence, Ernst Mayr, evolution, falsification, fitness landscape, intelligent design, Michael Denton, proteins, Stephen Jay Gould, Theodosius Dobzhansky, University of Oregon, unpredictability, Victor Stenger}

Protein Mutations Are Highly Coupled

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 8, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

This is a clear falsification of an evolutionary expectation expressed across many years, and widely held by a consensus of experts. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 7, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, bees, BIO-Complexity, chlorophyll, coevolution, Conservation of Information, Darwinian evolution, fitness landscape, flowering plants, No Free Lunch theorems, pancakes, pollen, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Conservation of Information and Coevolution: New BIO-Complexity Article by Ewert and Marks

_{Brian Miller
September 7, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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Biologists often claim that coevolutionary interactions, as with bees and flowers, can alter the fitness landscape to drive evolutionary changes. Read More ›

Sherlock Holmes Typical Objects on a Little Wooden Table: Deerstalker, Pipe, Magnifier

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 30, 2016

Categories
Biochemistry
Genetics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __nedited, amino acids, coding, DNA, fitness landscape, gene sequences, inferential science, nucleotide, software analogy, translation}

My Dear Watson: Four Observations on the DNA Code and Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 30, 2016

Biochemistry, Genetics, Scientific Reasoning

6}

The problem is there simply is no free lunch. Evolutionists can try to avoid the science, but there it is. Read More ›