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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2023

Categories
Genetics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aeon, behavior, children, choices, disease, eugenics, gene expression, genes, genome, homosexuality, identical twins, psychologists, selfhood, twins, UC Berkeley}

Genes Rule? The Evidence of Identical Twins

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2023

Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researcher on identical twins hoped to prove that Genes Rule! But there were ethics slippages along the way. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, epigenetics, evolution, gene expression, genes, Hox genes, mitochondrial DNA, Müller cells, On the Origin of Species, optic nerve, orphan genes, retina, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, Technion, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene}

New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU

_{Emily Reeves
May 2, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aging, cancer, Casey Luskin, Current Biology, Endogenous retroviruses, function, gene expression, genomics, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, PLOS Biology, PNAS, transposable elements, zebrafish}

In “Junk DNA,” Here Are Benefits of Seeking Function

_{David Coppedge
February 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You wouldn’t toss out all the punctuation in a book as “junk ABC” now, would you? Punctuation has a function. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, anesthesia, Claude Bernard, consciousness, fungi, gene expression, nervous system, RNA, Venus flytrap, worms}

How Plants Talk When We’re Not Around

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 15, 2022

Biology, Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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One genuine surprise in recent decades has been the discovery that plants have nervous systems like animals. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 31, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, DNA, evolution, evolutionary processes, gene expression, Genome Research, human genome, intelligent design, Joe Felsenstein, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nicholas Matzke, nucleic acids, repetitive elements, researchers, RNA, telomeres, transposable elements}

Researchers: What’s Evolutionary Debris to You Is Unexplored Territory to Us

_{Science & Culture
March 31, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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From a new, open-access article, “Implications of the first complete human genome assembly.” Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bacillus subtilis, beauty, biological systems, design triangulation, E. coli, elegance, enzymes, evolution, fitness, function, gene expression, genetic information, intelligent design, Neo-Darwinism, optimality, precision, proteins, robustness, speakers, sporulation, Stanford University, transmission}

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, chemotaxis, complexity, computer science, degradation, elegance, engineers, evolution, evolutionary biologists, gears, gene expression, hook, intelligent design, peer-reviewed literature, proteins, Science (journal), stator, Waldean Schulz}

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
September 10, 2021

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

6}

The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apes, cancer, common ancestry, DNA, Endogenous retroviruses, enhancers, ERVs, evolution, evolutionary mechanism, gene expression, genome, humans, Immune System, intelligent design, junk DNA, lncRNAs, narrative gloss, promoters, viruses}

Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses

_{Casey Luskin
July 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 28, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, chimpanzees, DNA, gene expression, genome, humans, ID the Future, podcast, proteins, Sarah Chaffee, splicing}

More on How Chimps and Humans Differ: Human-Specific Genes

_{Science & Culture
July 28, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

1}

“We don’t splice our RNA the same way chimps do,” says biologist Dr. Ann Gauger, continuing a conversation with host Sarah Chaffee. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 27, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, biological information, cell division, DNA, evolutionary biology, gene expression, genome, histone code, intelligent design, James Shapiro, meiosis, mitosis, Princeton University, purifying selection, RNA, sexual reproduction, University of Chicago}

The Wonders of Genomic Acrobatics: Ciliated Protozoa as a Case Study

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 27, 2019

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

Explaining this sort of phenomenon by slight, successive modification, as Darwin envisaged, seems problematic. Read More ›