Tag: malaria

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, African sleeping sickness, APOL1, Daniel Melamed, diseases, engineering, genes, genetic mutations, genomes, germline genome, haploid, heterozygotes, HindIII, homozygotes, Israel, malaria, MEMDS, mutation DNA, Mutation Enrichment followed by Maximum Depth Sequencing, mutation frequency, mutations, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, randomness, restriction enzyme, sperm, sperm DNA, Trypanosoma brucei, University of Haifa, wild-type DNA}

Could Genetic Mutations Be Non-Random? New Evidence for Mutational Bias

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 28, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The researchers examined the emergence of a mutation in the human APOL1 gene that confers protection from African sleeping sickness. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, chloroquine, confirmation bias, crickets, Dave Farina, debates, evolution, flagellum, Google, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, malaria, Michael Behe, Professor Dave Explains, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, science educators, The Edge of Evolution, Twitter, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

My “Debate” with Professor Dave

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

On Twitter, Dr. McLatchie took some time to engage in an exchange with Farina, which reflects the quality of the latter’s thinking, such as it is. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptive mutations, Africa, Darwin Devolves, Dave Farina, de novo genes, evolution, evolutionary change, evolutionary theory, François Jacob, genes, hemoglobin, intelligent design, Long Term Evolution Experiment, malaria, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, New York City, non-coding DNA, Professor Dave Explains, Richard Lenski, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Despite Mr. Farina’s smug condescension and patronizing demeanor, he fails to mount a credible critique of Dr. Behe’s thesis. Read More ›

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Date
August 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, devolution, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Lehigh University, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations}

Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design

_{Science & Culture
August 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

In Africa, having the devolutionary mutation that leaves an elephant tuskless renders the creature of no interest to elephant-slaying ivory poachers. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
November 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Current Biology, devolution, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary tree, functionality, genetic information, ID the Future, introns, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, Plasmodium falciparum, podcast, Tree of Life, yeast}

Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan Witt
November 27, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

2}

Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Read More ›

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post

Date
November 4, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chloroquine resistance, convergence, evolution, genes, intelligent design, malaria, Michael Behe, neo-Darwinists, Plasmodium falciparum, red blood cells, The Edge of Evolution}

If Malaria Is Evolving, It’s Not Doing It Darwin’s Way

_{Science & Culture
November 4, 2021

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Are scientists in Texas catching malaria in the act of evolving, or is something else going on? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
September 30, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Darwin Devolves, devolution, elephants, Ethiopia, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, malaria, Nature Microbiology, parasite, Plasmodium falciparum}

Devolution Watch: Malaria Gnaws Off a Leg

_{Michael Behe
September 30, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

3}

The most frequently used diagnostic test kit checks for the presence in the patient’s blood of either of two similar malarial proteins, called pfhrp2 or pfhrp3. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 1, 2021

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Dollo’s Law, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Larry Moran, Lehigh University, malaria, Michael Behe, microbes}

A Mousetrap for Blind Evolution, and Larry Moran

_{Jonathan Witt
February 1, 2021

Biochemistry, Evolution

2}

Michael Behe also discusses recent research confirming Dollo’s Law, and why that’s bad news for Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, chloroquine, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, malaria, Michael Behe, microbes, mutations}

Behe’s New Book Dispels Malaria Evolution Fog

_{Jonathan Witt
January 6, 2021

Evolution

1}

Evolutionists say malaria’s ability to evolve resistance to the antimalarial drug chloroquine is powerful evidence of unguided microbe-to-man evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 18, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, biology textbooks, cat, Charles Darwin, chloroquine resistance, complexity theory, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, jokes, mainstream media, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Nature (journal), popular media, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), self-organization, symbiosis}

Darwin Is on the Roof — New Book from Michael Behe, Available Now

_{David Klinghoffer
November 18, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The public is being prepared very slowly for the demise of Darwinian evolutionary theory. It wasn’t planned this way, but it is how things are playing out. Read More ›