Tag: Genome Biology and Evolution

Glittering dna helix with golden particles in a biotech concept

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 11, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, acetyl tags, biochemical functionality, BioEssays, biological codes, Biological Theory, biology, code, control, convergence, DNA, ENCODE project, evolution, First Things, Forrest Mims, Francis Collins, genes, Genome Biology and Evolution, Human Genome Project, information, information compression, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, methyl tags, Michael Levin, mind, ontogenetic information, paradigm shift, phylogenetic signal, phylogenomic conflict, Platonism, random mutations, repetitive DNA, Richard Sternberg, Science (journal), science stopper, Simon Conway Morris, Taking Stock at 30 (series), Third Way of Evolution, Tufts University, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Thirty Years of Intelligent Design Predicting the Unexpected Genome

_{Casey Luskin
August 11, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Jonathan Wells’s review was important, but it only scratches the surface of information in biology outside of the DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, Bradley Monton, Darwin’s Black Box, David Berlinski, dualism, education, evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Judge John E. Jones, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Laurence Moran, Manyuan Long, Michael Behe, National Center for Science Education, peer-reviewed publications, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, Ten Myths About Dover, The Origin of Species, University of Kentucky, William Dembski, word salad}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 4, “The Dover Ruling Refuted Intelligent Design”

_{Casey Luskin
December 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Scientific Reasoning

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Expert witnesses like biochemist Michael Behe and microbiologist Scott Minnich testified about how irreducible complexity makes a positive case for design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 28, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioEssays, biologists, Columbia University, DNA, ENCODE, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Forrest Mims, Francis Crick, Genome Biology and Evolution, genomes, intelligent design, John Mattick, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Human Evolution, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Long Story Short, Nature (journal), Oxford University Press, paradigm shift, predictions, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, Taylor & Francis, The Greatest Show on Earth, University of Toronto, W. Ford Doolittle, William A. Dembski}

New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
March 28, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, creationists, Darwinists, Dover trial, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, intelligent design, Kenneth Miller, mutations, pseudogenes, purifying selection}

Blast from the Past: Eugenie Scott’s Failed Prediction on Pseudogenes

_{Casey Luskin
January 20, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Scott confidently asserts that because of mutations the beta-globin pseudogene “isn’t going to do diddly. It’s just going to sit there.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 20, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Ann Gauger, Bill Nye, chimpanzees, Colin Reeves, common ancestry, Dennis Venema, DNA, evolution, gene regulatory networks, genome, Genome Biology and Evolution, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature (journal), non-coding DNA, Ola Hössjer, pseudogenes, Richard Buggs, Science (journal), Theistic Evolution (book)}

Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

_{Casey Luskin
October 20, 2021

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true? Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, common ancestor, genome, Genome Biology and Evolution, gorillas, ID the Future, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, neo-Darwinian evolution, podcast, pseudogenes, species}

Another “Junk DNA” Icon Bites the Dust

_{Science & Culture
March 7, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Casey Luskin examines a paper which argues that the famous beta-globin pseudogene is functional. Why is this pseudogene famous? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Dan Graur, ENCODE, Evolution News, fitness, genome, Genome Biology and Evolution, intelligent design, junk DNA, molecular evolution, mutations, predictions, Science (journal), University of Houston}

Paper Shows that “Mutational Load” Arguments Don’t Refute ENCODE

_{Casey Luskin
May 1, 2020

Intelligent Design

5}

Perhaps one of ENCODE’s staunchest critics has been Dan Graur, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
April 24, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __cedited, angiosperms, evolution, flowers, Genome Biology and Evolution, intelligent design, sex, sex chromosomes}

Sex Chromosomes Refuse to Fit One Origins Theory

_{Paul Nelson
April 24, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

1}

The designer made the sexual organs of angiosperms, namely, flowers, to be the most spectacularly beautiful structures in biology. Read More ›

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Date
July 28, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, __cedited, Dan Graur, ENCODE, evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, junk DNA, Neo-Darwinism, New Scientist, New York Post, population genetics, University of Houston}

Dan Graur, Anti-ENCODE Crusader, Is Back

_{Science & Culture
July 28, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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In arguing for 75 percent of the human genome as trash, has Dr. Graur slain the ENCODE dragon and rescued the Junk DNA myth? Nah. Read More ›