Tag: humidity

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Alistair Evans, Animal Algorithms, bird beaks, Current Biology, David Klinghoffer, eagle, enthalpy, entropy, eukaryotes, evolutionary biologists, Evolutionary Game Theory, godwit, Gutenberg University, humidity, John Harte, Kathleen Garland, mice, Monash University, Murphy’s Laws of Technology, ostrich, phase transition, photosynthesis, physics, physics envy, Plato's Revenge, pressure, Richard Sternberg, spoonbill, teleology, temperature, The Conversation, volume, Weasel program}

Physics Envy Is Not Helping Evolutionary Biology

_{David Coppedge
April 30, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Biology is very different from physics. But if living things are entirely describable by atoms and forces, shouldn’t laws of physics apply to them, too? Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, actuators, dandelion seeds, dandelions, Darwinians, humidity, hummingbirds, Illustra Media, Imperial College London, intelligent design, Japan, Madagascar, moths, Nature Communications, On the Origin of Species, orb webs, pappus, Paul Nelson, PLOS ONE, seals, silk glands, spider silk, spiders, thermostats, University of Bristol, whiskers, Wikipedia, Yale University}

Dandelions, Darwin’s Bark Spider, and More: No Shortage of Biological Wonders

_{David Coppedge
June 28, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Those of us who find purpose in biology instead of random tinkering will not run out of material to get excited about any time soon. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, apes, Australia, blue whale, cancer, crop circles, DNA, dragline silk, epigenetics, evolutionary tree, fairy circles, Harvard University, humidity, humpback whale, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Living Waters, Metamorphosis, milkweed, MIT, monarch butterfly, mutations, natural selection, NOAA, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthesis, PLOS ONE, proteasomes, Rubisco, Science Advances, spider silk, termites, UCLA, University of Sheffield, Weizmann Institute}

Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

_{Science and Culture
March 20, 2019

Biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design

8}

So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 18, 2019

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, architecture, bioluminescence, Biomimetics, carcinology, click beetle, crustaceans, Darwin Devolves, entomology, France, froghopper, Harrison Tasoff, hinge, humidity, insects, John Dabiri, krill, leafhopper, medicine, mucus, National Science Foundation, ostracods, Paris, planthopper, PNAS, robots, Stanford University, temperature, termite mound, termites, UC Santa Barbara}

Small Wonders: Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Amazing Little Insects and Crustaceans

_{Science and Culture
March 18, 2019

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

7}

It often seems that the closer you need to look, the greater the wonder. It’s as if someone set it there to hide, waiting for us. Read More ›