Star Trek Type post Author David Coppedge Date April 26, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , antibiotic resistance, Australia, bioRxiv, Borgs, fungi, genes, genomes, horizontal gene transfer, information, jumping genes, microbes, Neo-Darwinism, PNAS, prokaryotes, selfish genes, SETI, Star Trek, Starships, 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 ›
common octopus Type post Date July 21, 2022 CategoriesBiologyIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , birds, brain, clams, genome, intelligence, intelligent design, invertebrates, jumping genes, junk DNA, Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements, mammals, marine invertebrates, octopuses, oysters, transposons, unguided evolution How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA” Science and Culture July 21, 2022 Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 2 Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes. Read More ›
kinesin Type post Author David Coppedge Date May 13, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , chloroplasts, Current Biology, David Wolpert, evolution, Francis Bacon, Heidelberg University, heterochromatin, information flow, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, jumping genes, junk DNA, kinesin, mechanical philosophy, Nobel Prize, open reading frame, Prime Mover, proteins, Ribosome, Robert Boyle, robotics, Rockefeller University, Salk Institute, Santa Fe Institute, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University, William A. Dembski, William Paley Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How? David Coppedge May 13, 2022 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 11 We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined. Read More ›
CELS Type post Date June 1, 2021 CategoriesBiologyEngineeringEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , archaea, bacteria, Big Data, Carl Woese, Cédric Blais, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Current Biology, Darwinian theory, eukarya, genomics, hybridization, intelligent design, introgression, John M. Archibald, jumping genes, lateral gene transfer, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, taxonomy, Texas, transposons, Tree of Life Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design Science and Culture June 1, 2021 Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design 7 If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration. Read More ›
cell interior Type post Date January 29, 2020 CategoriesIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , __edited, alternative splicing, biochemists, biomolecules, cells, DNA, ENCODE, evolutionary theory, Human Genome Project, ID the Future, information, Jonathan Wells, jumping genes, junk DNA, methylation, Paul Nelson, pesticides, Phillip E. Johnson, polysaccharides, RNA, RNA transcripts, spliceosome, sugars, The Scientist, University of Chicago, University of Münster, Washington University Surprises in Cell Codes Reveal Information Goes Far Beyond DNA Science and Culture January 29, 2020 Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 7 Information is the stuff of life. Not limited to DNA, information is found in most biomolecules in living cells. Read More ›
Type post Author Cornelius Hunter Date March 14, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , __k-review, evolution, intelligent design, jumping genes, junk DNA, Research, Switzerland, transposable elements Three Ways that Transposable Elements Demolish Evolutionary Theory Cornelius Hunter March 14, 2017 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 5 These “jumping genes” are segments of junk DNA that insert themselves at random in our genomes. That is the evolutionary interpretation. Read More ›
Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date June 3, 2016 CategoriesBiologyEvolution Tagged , __tedited, adaptation, Darwinism, evolutionary icons, fakery, Icons of Evolution, jumping genes, macroevolution, microevolution, natural selection, Origin of Species, peppered moths, textbooks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, transposable elements Peppered Moths, an Evolutionary Icon, Are Back Jonathan Wells June 3, 2016 Biology, Evolution 5 Readers of Evolution News are probably familiar with -- perhaps even bored with -- the classic story of peppered moths. Read More ›