Tag: genotype

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

_{Granville Sewell
June 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 17, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, biologists, Charles Darwin, complementarity, evolutionary theory, flagellum, genotype, head, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, males, meiosis, middle piece, mitosis, modifications, podcast, sex, sexual reproduction, sperm cells}

Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 17, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

2}

Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antimalarial drugs, Casey Luskin, chloroquine, chloroquine resistance, Darwin Devolves, drugs, evolution, evolutionary processes, fitness landscape, genotype, HIV, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, phenotype, Plasmodium falciparum, Professor Dave, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

I wonder whether Farina has in fact read Behe’s book for himself, or whether he is relying upon others, such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, beauty, conservation, Cyanobacteria, ENCODE, evolution, genes, genotype, human cells, intelligent design, modENCODE, PNAS, Science Magazine, yeast}

For Beauty, Pleasure, and More, Intelligent Design Expects Non-Essential Genes

_{David Coppedge
March 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

In past years, papers have tried to identify the subset of all genes in a genome that are essential for viability. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological redundancy, design triangulation, DNA, evolution, fitness, function, genetic material, genotype, intelligent design, laboratory conditions, Martin Nowak, neo-Darwinian theory, organisms, robustness}

No More Confusion: Three Categories of Biological Redundancy, Simplified

_{Emily Reeves
March 4, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Rewriting the categories of biological redundancy in terms of function clarifies their purpose and contribution. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 31, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design logic, engineers, fitness, fitness landscape, genes, genotype, height, intelligent design, living systems, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, physiology}

Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
August 31, 2021

Anatomy, Engineering, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, amphibians, brachiopods, Cambrian Explosion, cephalopods, corals, cormorant, Darwin's Finches, degeneration, endangered species, evolution, foraminifera, fossilization, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, genotype, Geospizinae, John Gould, macroevolution, North America, ornithology, population growth, population size, South America, speciation, women}

“Darwin’s Finches”: Galápagos Islands as an Evolutionary Model

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 30, 2020

Evolution

13}

Taking the facts and arguments presented together, it appears to be clear that no macroevolution is happening in “Darwin’s finches.” Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, alleles, beak size, Darwin's Finches, DNA, dog breeds, evolution, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, genotype, HMGA2, macroevolution, National Academy of Sciences, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, SNPs, speciation}

Galápagos Finches — A Paradigm of the Limits of Natural Selection?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 20, 2020

Evolution

4}

They are not, per the National Academy of Sciences, a “particularly convincing example for speciation.” Read More ›

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post

Date
March 13, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, bacteria, bioengineering, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, corn, Craig Venter, CRISPR-Cas9, design filter, Design Inference, DNA, Dogs, Douglas Axe, ETH Zurich, Galápagos Islands, genotype, intelligent design, maize, Mars rover, natural, Nature (journal), No Free Lunch, Paul Nelson, phenotype, Roger Olsen, Technion, The Design Revolution, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski, wolves}

Blurring the Line Between Natural and Artificial

_{Science and Culture
March 13, 2020

Intelligent Design

9}

As technology mimics nature, at what point might future investigators be unsure about natural versus intelligent causes? Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 30, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology”

_{Granville Sewell
October 30, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Origin of Life

6}

We still are not close to designing any self-replicating machine. That is still pure science fiction. Read More ›