Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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gene expression

CELS
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Author
Emily Reeves
Date
January 3, 2024
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology

Emily Reeves
January 3, 2024
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems. Read More ›
DNA
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Casey Luskin
Date
November 29, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique.  Read More ›
light dimmer
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Casey Luskin
Date
September 27, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”

Casey Luskin
September 27, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Rheostats are “often used as power control devices, for example to control light intensity (dimmer), speed of motors, heaters, and ovens.” Read More ›
cells
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Robert F. Shedinger
Date
September 11, 2023
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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Cellular Cognition? So Much for Darwinism!

Robert Shedinger
September 11, 2023
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind
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Following up in considering Daniel Nicholson’s challenge to the machine concept of the cell, I will examine intracellular transport and cellular behavior. Read More ›
twins
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 11, 2023
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Genetics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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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 ›
ICU
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Emily Reeves
Date
May 2, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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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 ›
Junk DNA
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David Coppedge
Date
February 28, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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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 ›
Mimosa pudica
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
April 15, 2022
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Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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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 ›
DNA
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March 31, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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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 ›
E. coli
innovate
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Emily Reeves
Date
March 7, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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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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