Tag: horizontal gene transfer

How microservices enhance application modularity

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Technology
Tagged
, biological systems, biology, Brain Potter, Brian Arthur, combinations, Construction Physics, economists, engineering, evolutionary theory, functionality, genes, genetic recombination, horizontal gene transfer, information, intelligent design, modularity, mutations, recombination, sexual reproduction, subcomponents, technology}

Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution

_{Winston Ewert
July 15, 2026

Biology, Engineering, Technology

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The fundamental problem with this analysis is that sexual reproduction does not make anything modular. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, complex biological features, Denis Noble, epigenetic change, evo-devo, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Lamarckian theory, macroevolution, microevolution, Modern Synthesis, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, niche construction, On the Origin of Species, teleonomy, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago}

Third Way Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

_{Casey Luskin
December 11, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Things were peachy until the late 20th/early 21st century, when some biologists began to acknowledge that neo-Darwinism had a glaring explanatory deficit. Read More ›

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Date
July 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, biologic institute, Christians, Darwinian evolution, devolution, Discovery Institute Press, Douglas Axe, epigenetic change, evolution, faith and science, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Michael Levin, Plato’s Revenge, restaurants, Richard Sternberg, Sean McDowell, shopping, Sy Garte, Undeniable (book), voting, YouTubers}

Time for Christians to Move Beyond the Evolution Wars?

_{Science & Culture
July 1, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Trustworthiness

5}

Actually, a paradigm shift is already underway. Traditional Darwinism faces challenges on a number of fronts within biology studies. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, comparative biology, Cornelius Hunter, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, gene duplications, honesty, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, mutations, National Geographic, natural selection, Potemkin village, random variation, recombination, Richard Dawkins, Rutgers University, Theodosius Dobzhansky, whales}

Dan Stern Cardinale: Comparative Biology, Invincible Ignorance

_{Michael Behe
May 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Stern Cardinale loses it at the point where I note that Darwin-boosters go mute when asked how complex traits evolve (such as, say, those of bats or whales). Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, horizontal gene transfer, panspermia, Peter Corning, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, symbiosis, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia}

Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

_{Daniel Witt
May 1, 2024

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

7}

I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, Charles Darwin, elephant, embryos, Financial Times, gene editing, George Church, ghost lineages, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Siberia, Texas, viruses, woolly mammoth}

What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism

_{Rob Sheldon
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life's history. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, falsification, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, topology, Tree of Life, Twitter, YouTube videos}

Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway

_{Paul Nelson
August 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Early in his presentation, McInerney says that he hopes to persuade his audience that this familiar LUCA-based hypothesis “has been falsified.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, Australia, bioRxiv, fungi, genes, genomes, horizontal gene transfer, information, jumping genes, microbes, Neo-Darwinism, PNAS, prokaryotes, selfish genes, SETI, Star Trek, Sweden, transposable elements, transposons, Uppsala University}

Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go

_{David Coppedge
April 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Newly recognized large transposable elements in fungi dubbed Starships may not be selfish after all. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bioRxiv, co-evolution, convergence, Current Biology, DNA, Duke University, evolution, ferns, Foresight (book), gene flow, heredity, horizontal gene transfer, human evolution, intelligent design, introgression, Neanderthals, North Carolina State University, University of Tübingen}

Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
September 20, 2022

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, convergent evolution, Darwinian theory, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, evolutionary time, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, horizontal gene transfer, information, information theory, Modern Synthesis, radio, randomness, television}

Here’s a New Evolutionary Theory Based on Information

_{Science & Culture
June 8, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Information follows different rules from matter and energy, which might change the way we see evolution. Read More ›