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August 4, 2020

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Intelligent Design
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, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Dan Graur, DNA, ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, evolution, Evolution News, genomics, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, MIT, National Institutes of Health, Nature (journal), RNA}

Next Phase of ENCODE Finds MORE Functional Information in Genome “Junk”

_{Science & Culture
August 4, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The ENCODE project, now in its 17th year, ended its third phase with a new record of annotated elements in human and mouse genomes. Phase 4 is coming. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
July 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, central dogma, centromere, chromosomes, cytoskeleton, Drosophila melanogaster, junk DNA, kinetochores, meiosis, nucleotides, oocyte, Paul Davies, Y chromosome, zygote}

DNA May Be “Junk” at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another

_{Richard Sternberg
July 29, 2020

Intelligent Design

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It is during the latter stages of the production of an animal oocyte that many functionalities of what some disparage as “junk DNA” take center stage. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Biston betularia, Brian K. Hall, butterflies, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fruit flies, gene regulation, gills, Haeckel’s embryos, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Majerus, moths, Rosemary Grant, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, wings, Zombie Science (book)}

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

_{Robert Shedinger
July 20, 2020

Evolution

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From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 18, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, "poor design", Andrew Moore, appendix, BioEssays, censorship, chance, coccyx, Darwinian evolution, Dave Speijer, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Facebook, free speech, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, junk DNA, Karl Popper, Panda's Thumb, Paul Nelson, Signature in the Cell, social media, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, vertebrate eye}

What Triggered a Biology Journal to Demand Government Censorship of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
May 18, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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The article is like a thermometer measuring a fever among evolutionists. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Dan Graur, ENCODE, Evolution News, fitness, genome, Genome Biology and Evolution, intelligent design, junk DNA, molecular evolution, mutations, predictions, Science (journal), University of Houston}

Paper Shows that “Mutational Load” Arguments Don’t Refute ENCODE

_{Casey Luskin
May 1, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Perhaps one of ENCODE’s staunchest critics has been Dan Graur, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __k-review, axioms, chromosomes, DNA, Drosophila melanogaster, Francis Crick, fruit flies, junk DNA, Leslie Orgel, nucleus, organism, phenotype, Richard Dawkins, RNA, The Selfish Gene, transposable elements, W. Ford Doolittle, Y chromosome}

The “Why” of the Fly “Y”: Reflections on “Junk” DNA

_{Richard Sternberg
April 3, 2020

Evolution, Genetics

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Let us give some thought to the Y chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, that engaging fly which is the bond-servant of genetics. Read More ›

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Date
March 27, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, ATP, central dogma, chromosomes, cohesin, Darwinian mechanism, DNA, E. coli, error catastrophe, genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, Lego blocks, mRNA, Nature Communications, PNAS, polymerase, polypeptides, proteins, RNA, South Korea, University of Basel, University of Notre Dame, University of Seville, William Paley}

More Hints of Order in the Genome

_{Science & Culture
March 27, 2020

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

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Genomics has come a long way since the central dogma and junk DNA. If you expect to find reasons for things, you often do find them. Read More ›

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Date
March 11, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
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, __edited, Ann Gauger, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Thaxton, Douglas Axe, evolution, genes, ID the Future, Illustra Media, junk DNA, Metazoa, natural selection, Nature Communications, non-coding DNA, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, probability, Roger Olsen, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Trinity College Dublin, Walter Bradley}

Researchers: It Exists; Therefore, It Evolved

_{Science & Culture
March 11, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Genetics

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According to some reporters and Darwinists, evolutionary theory today needs no more confirmation than existence. Evolution is a fact, remember? Read More ›

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Date
January 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life 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, spliceosome, sugars, The Scientist, University of Chicago, Washington University}

Surprises in Cell Codes Reveal Information Goes Far Beyond DNA

_{Science & Culture
January 29, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Information is the stuff of life. Not limited to DNA, information is found in most biomolecules in living cells. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 7, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, Annual Review of Genetics, Cell (journal), CRISPR, DNA, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, functionality, gene duplication, junk DNA, MicroRNAs, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, proteins, pseudogenes, RNA, terminology, Thomas Kuhn, transcription}

Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”

_{Casey Luskin
January 7, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Technology

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As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.” Read More ›