eye Type post Author Emily Reeves Date December 24, 2021 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , An Introduction to Systems Biology, ARF, bioengineering, biological information, Darwinian processes, diarrhea, Erez Ribak, Erika DeBenedictis, gut bacteria, INK4a, intelligent design, MIT, Müller cells, natural selection, neurons, optic nerve, photoreceptors, physiology, random mutation, Technion, TEDx talk, Uri Alon, vertebrate eye, vestigial structures #9 Story of 2021: Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Have a Poor Track Record Emily Reeves December 24, 2021 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 6 For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology. Read More ›
Erika DeBenedictis Type post Author Elizabeth Whately Date June 9, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsIntelligent DesignMedicine Tagged , ARF, China, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, intelligent design, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Nature (journal), scientists, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God Elizabeth Whately June 9, 2021 Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Medicine 7 I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›
eye Type post Author Emily Reeves Date May 21, 2021 CategoriesBiologyIntelligent Design Tagged , "poor design", An Introduction to Systems Biology, ARF, bioengineering, biological information, Darwinian processes, diarrhea, Erez Ribak, Erika DeBenedictis, gut bacteria, INK4a, intelligent design, MIT, Müller cells, natural selection, neurons, optic nerve, photoreceptors, physiology, random mutation, Technion, TEDx talk, Uri Alon, vertebrate eye, vestigial structures Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Don’t Have a Good Track Record Emily Reeves May 21, 2021 Biology, Intelligent Design 5 For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology. Read More ›
cancer cells Type post Author Emily Reeves Date May 20, 2021 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , amino acids, ARF, biological information, cancer, constraints, data compression, DNA, Erika DeBenedictis, evolution, genome, INK4a, intelligent design, MIT, mutations, open reading frames, optimality, overlapping genes, tumors Is the INK4a/ARF Overlap a Settled Example of Poor Design? Emily Reeves May 20, 2021 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 7 Dr. DeBenedictis’s basic argument is that there is a section of the human genome where two genes overlap, both of which are important for suppressing tumors. Read More ›
