Tag: Frances Arnold

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured2, Caltech, carbon-silicon bonds, cells, cytochrome c, directed evolution, enzyme, Frances Arnold, Hendrik F. T. Klare, homochirality, Iceland, intelligent design, Martin Oestreich, materialists, microbes, molecules, natural, New Scientist, pharmaceuticals, polymers, rational thought, Science (journal), semiconductors, silicon, unnatural}

Clarity, Please: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

_{David Coppedge
February 12, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Four Caltech scientists taught “nature” to do the “unnatural” by first isolating a microbe that lives in the hot springs of Iceland. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 28, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Caltech, DNA, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzymes, evolution, Frances Arnold, George P. Smith, Gregory P. Winter, industry, intelligent design, Matti Leisola, medicine, mutations, Nobel Prize, oxymoron, proteins, science, sequence space, universe, University of Missouri}

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2018: It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes

_{Ann Gauger
December 28, 2018

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Intelligent Design

5}

In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 29, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, biomolecules, citrate, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinists, E. coli, evolution, Frances Arnold, function, gene, George P. Smith, Gregory P. Winter, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, loss of function, Michael Behe, Nobel Prize, oxygen, proteins, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich, The Edge of Evolution}

The Nobel Prize and Intelligent Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
October 29, 2018

Intelligent Design

4}

The contrast between the evolutionary sterility of Lenski’s unintelligent Darwinian evolution and the evolutionary potency of Arnold, Smith, and Winter’s intelligent evolution is striking. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 15, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, biomolecules, cellular metabolism, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, DNA, Frances Arnold, George P. Smith, Gregory P. Winter, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerry Coyne, junk DNA, Linus Pauling, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nobel laureates, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines (film)}

Behe’s Irreducible Complexity Validated by Chemistry Nobel

_{Michael Egnor
October 15, 2018

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

Darwinist Jerry Coyne misunderstands design science. Intelligent design is two scientific inferences. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 8, 2018

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, bioengineering, cellular metabolism, Darwinian mechanism, Design Inference, Frances Arnold, Francis Crick, genetic code, George P. Smith, Gregory P. Winter, intelligent design, James Watson, junk DNA, Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize, proteins}

Intelligent Design Wins Another Nobel Prize

_{Michael Egnor
October 8, 2018

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

6}

The design inference is obvious but often implicit, because explicit acknowledgement of design in biology carries with it substantial career risk. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Engineering
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, creationism, directed evolution, Douglas Axe, education, evolution, Frances Arnold, intelligent design, Matti Leisola, media, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), New York Times, Nobel Prize}

Word Games with Evolutionists

_{David Klinghoffer
October 5, 2018

Chemistry, Engineering, Evolution

2}

Coming from the National Center for Science Education or the New York Times, this is typical. Read More ›

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post

Author
Ann Gauger

Date
October 4, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Caltech, DNA, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzymes, evolution, Frances Arnold, George P. Smith, Gregory P. Winter, industry, intelligent design, Matti Leisola, medicine, mutations, Nobel Prize, oxymoron, proteins, science, sequence space, universe, University of Missouri}

It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes

_{Ann Gauger
October 4, 2018

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function. Read More ›

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post

Author
Matti Leisola

Date
October 4, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Artificial Selection, bacteria, Barry Hall, bioengineering, biotechnology, Caltech, directed evolution, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Frances Arnold, gene, Heretic, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, New York Times, Nobel Prize, pharmaceuticals, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, theistic evolution}

How the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Harnessed Intelligent Design

_{Matti Leisola
October 4, 2018

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

5}

There is one point of confusion in descriptions of this year’s prize winners. It’s the talk of “directed evolution.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Douglas Axe

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amino-acid sequences, Caltech, Cambridge, cells, Darwinian evolution, design, directed evolution, enzymes, evolution, Frances Arnold, genes, intelligent design, New York Times, Nobel Prize, protein evolution, selection, University of Missouri}

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Intelligent Design?

_{Douglas Axe
October 3, 2018

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

3}

The problem these efforts face in the lab is exactly the problem faced by Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism in the wild. Read More ›