Tag: gene duplication

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, algorithm, Ariel Chipman, Artificial Selection, balancing selection, BioEssays, Cambrian Explosion, co-option, conservation, Darwin Devolves, Dyna Rochmyaningsih, evolution, Galápagos Islands, gene duplication, genetic drift, genetic mutations, Hugo de Vries, hybridization, introgression, John Sanford, John Templeton Foundation, magic, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, mount improbable, Mutant Ninja Turtles, natural selection, negative selection, Owen D. Jones, personification, Phillip E. Johnson, polyploidy, process, programming, pterosaur, purifying selection, Richard Lewontin, Robert Hazen, Spiderman, stabilizing selection, Stuff Happens Law, subfunctionalization, survival of the fittest, The Design Inference, Tom Bethell, tuatara, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionists Need a Refresher Course in Natural Selection

_{David Coppedge
June 9, 2026

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Abuses of the concept of natural selection abound not only in science news but in scientific papers in major journals as well. It’s time for a remedial course. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood clotting, blood-clotting cascade, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, common design, Evolution News, evolutionary history, fibrinogen, gene duplication, genes, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, neo-Darwinian theory, Russell Doolittle}

Has Russell Doolittle Provided an Evolutionary Explanation of the Blood Clotting Cascade?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 28, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

Doolittle predicts, from an evolutionary framework, that jawless vertebrates would have a simpler blood clotting cascade than the human system. Read More ›

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Date
April 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, cancer, Casey Luskin, Darwin lobby, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, echolocation, functional information, gene duplication, genes, information, innovation, intelligent design, PLoS Genetics, purifying selection, RNA world, Science (journal), transposons, unguided processes}

Information from Nothing? Darwinists Must Believe It

_{Science & Culture
April 29, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Some evolutionists are becoming bolder in their assertions that information can arise from stochastic processes without intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, circular reasoning, evolutionary processes, gene duplication, intelligent design, lateral gene transfer, natural processes, No Free Lunch theorems}

Mistakes Our Critics Make: Limits of Evolutionary Processes

_{Brian Miller
July 3, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The evolution of many complex traits, such as echo location in whales, requires the modification or creation of numerous proteins, physical structures, and neural connections. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Dollo’s Law, Evolution (journal), evolutionary biologists, gene duplication, Harvard University, hemoglobin, humans, Jerry Coyne, Joseph Thornton, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, molecular evolution, molecular genetics, mutations, Pseudomonas fluorescens, red blood cells, Science (journal), Skeptic Magazine, Washington Post}

Harvard Molecular Geneticist Vindicates Michael Behe’s Main Argument in Darwin Devolves

_{Casey Luskin
May 22, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

Mainstream evolutionary biologists are independently arriving at very similar conclusions to Behe’s central thesis. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 7, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, Annual Review of Genetics, Cell (journal), CRISPR, DNA, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, functionality, gene duplication, junk DNA, MicroRNAs, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, proteins, pseudogenes, RNA, terminology, Thomas Kuhn, transcription}

Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”

_{Casey Luskin
January 7, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Technology

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As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 3, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Bacillus subtilis, bacterial cell division, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Douglas Axe, Douglas Theobald, Escherichia coli, Evolution News, evolutionists, gene duplication, genes, hemoglobin, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap, mutations, Nathan Lents, National Academy of Sciences, natural selection, oxygen, S. Joshua Swamidass, Skeptic Magazine, TalkOrigins}

Muller Two-Step Model: A Refutation of Behe on Irreducible Complexity?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 3, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

13}

Our responses to the Muller two-step have been around for a long time; it would be nice if ID critics would recognize and perhaps answer them. 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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Date
March 13, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, BioLogos, Darwin's Black Box, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Dennis Venema, DNA, gene duplication, Michael Behe, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, neutral evolution, PLOS Biology, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Stephen Meyer, Trinity Western University}

Adam and the Genome and Whole Genome Duplication Events

_{Science & Culture
March 13, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

13}

Evidence for WGD doesn’t show a Darwinian pathway. There is no evidence here against intelligent design or Michael Behe. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 7, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, antifreeze protein, beta-lactamase, Darwin's Doubt, Dennis Venema, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzyme, FOXP2, gene duplication, human genome, Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, lateral gene transfer, nylonase, PLOS ONE, protein folds, proteins, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Stephen Meyer}

Adam and the Genome and Doug Axe’s Research on the Evolution of New Protein Folds

_{Science & Culture
March 7, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Douglas Axe is a protein scientist who has published work on the rarity of new protein folds by doing research on beta-lactamase enzymes. Read More ›