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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological redundancy, design triangulation, DNA, duplicate genes, evolution, fitness, function, genes, intelligent design, junk DNA, Martin Nowak, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, purpose, redundancy}

How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 3, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful. Read More ›

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Date
February 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, entropy, Eugene V. Koonin, evolution, genes, learning, natural selection, Neural Networks, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Theodosius Dobzhansky, thermodynamics, Thomas Malthus, universe, vitalism, Vitaly Vanchurin}

Origin of Life Is Not Reducible to Physics

_{Science and Culture
February 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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This continues an evaluation of a proposal that treats natural selection as a law of physics that is applicable to the entire universe. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, cats, chimpanzees, common design, DNA, DNA polymerases, embryos, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary transitions, fossil record, genes, genomes, homology, horses, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, phylogenetic trees, proteins, Richard Dawkins, students, teachers, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Tree of Life, Zombie Science (book)}

Khan Academy Misleads with Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity Argument for Common Ancestry

_{Casey Luskin
February 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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The video compares humans and chimps, saying the latter’s behaviors and facial expressions are “eerily human.” I could say the same thing about my cat. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Chile, Darwinism, digestive enzymes, digits, evolution, fin rays, fish, gene regulatory network, genes, genetic code, intelligent design, limbs, Long Story Short, mitosis, Neil Shubin, PNAS, Spain, tiktaalik, University of Chicago}

More Fishy Tales Afoot from Neil Shubin

_{Science and Culture
January 3, 2022

Anatomy, Evolution, Paleontology

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Tiktaalik discoverer Neil Shubin from the University of Chicago searches for genetic clues between fish fins and tetrapod toes. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 7, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Araneae, architecture, arthropods, Charlotte’s Web, engineers, evolution, genes, intelligent design, orb webs, prey, proteins, rubber, silk glands, spinnerets}

The Miracle of Spiderwebs

_{Eric Cassell
December 7, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Spiders are another of nature’s master engineers. About half of known spider species (order Araneae) construct webs made of silk. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 23, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, choreography, chromosomes, DNA, females, genes, genome, intelligent design, males, nucleus, proteins, RNA, sex chromosomes, teleology}

New Studies Reveal the Exquisite Designs of the Nucleus and its DNA

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 23, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You may have heard that all the DNA in your body, if stretched out, could reach to the Sun and back more than 70 times. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Australopithecus, Bernard Wood, Bible, Christianity Today, Darwinian evolution, East Africa, evolution, FOXP2, Francis Collins, genes, Genetics (journal), Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, human intelligence, human origins, Ian Tattersall, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), integration, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, mutations, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Robin Williams, Sapiens (book), science and religion, The Language of God, Time Magazine, William Lane Craig, Yuval Noah Harari}

Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
November 10, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›

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Date
November 4, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chloroquine resistance, convergence, evolution, genes, intelligent design, malaria, Michael Behe, microbiologists, neo-Darwinists, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, red blood cells, The Edge of Evolution}

If Malaria Is Evolving, It’s Not Doing It Darwin’s Way

_{Science and Culture
November 4, 2021

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Are scientists in Texas catching malaria in the act of evolving, or is something else going on? Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 14, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, cichlid fish, engineered systems, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic diversity, information, Lake Malawi, Lake Victoria, mutation rate, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, phenotypic plasticity}

Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
October 14, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Cichlid variation do not primarily originate from random mutations but from engineered systems. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
September 30, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Darwin Devolves, devolution, elephants, Ethiopia, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, ivory poaching, malaria, Nature Microbiology, parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, tuskless elephants, tusks}

Devolution Watch: Malaria Gnaws Off a Leg

_{Michael Behe
September 30, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

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The most frequently used diagnostic test kit checks for the presence in the patient’s blood of either of two similar malarial proteins, called pfhrp2 or pfhrp3. Read More ›