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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, California, information, initial conditions, intelligent design, laws of nature, molecular biology, molecules, preconditions, Religions (journal), Return of the God Hypothesis, Rope Kojonen, Stephen Meyer, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), University of Southern California}

Could Finely Tuned Initial Conditions Create Biological Organisms?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Theologian Rope Kojonen, in an attempt to wed design and evolution, allows for this interpretation in his recent book. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Assembly Theory, chemical evolution, Clockwork, complexity, consciousness, Elon Musk, fallacy, Harvard University, information theory, intelligent design, James Tour, Justin Brierley, Lee Cronin, materialism, methodological naturalism, molecular biology, naturalism, Nature (journal), ontology, Oxford University, phase transition, quantum entanglement, Reductionism, Rice University, saltation, scientific method, theoretical physics, Unbelievable, worldview}

A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate

_{Günter Bechly
December 6, 2023

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Origin of Life

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Under the theory of an unguided process of chemical and biological evolution, should a threshold of complexity, clearly identifying life, be expected? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anomalies, BioEssays, brain function, dogmatism, epigenetic information, evidence, evolution, evolutionary theory, function, gene regulation, genes, genetic programming, inheritance, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, molecular biology, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, Thomas Kuhn}

The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

_{Casey Luskin
November 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, addiction, alleles, anomalies, Barbara McClintock, BioEssays, circadian rhythms, cognition, DNA, enhancers, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, evolution, genes, genomes, human genome, intelligence, intelligent design, introns, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, methylation, molecular biology, mRNAs, neutral evolution, paradigm shift, personality, retroviruses, Ribosome, Scientific American, Short Tandem Repeats, Thomas Kuhn, transposable elements, transposons}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ATP, Barbara McClintock, Daniel Nicholson, evolution, gene expression, genome, intelligence, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, mind, molecular biology, motor proteins, Nobel Prize, protein complexes}

Cellular Cognition? So Much for Darwinism!

_{Robert Shedinger
September 11, 2023

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Following up in considering Daniel Nicholson’s challenge to the machine concept of the cell, I will examine intracellular transport and cellular behavior. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Barbara McClintock, cells, Chance and Necessity, circuitry, cognition, Daniel Nicholson, DNA, function, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, machine metaphor, membranes, molecular biology, nucleic acids, proteins, self-assembly}

Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 31, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, 23andMe, central dogma, complexity, genome, genomics, Harvard University, information, intelligent design, interactome, metabolites, molecular biology, mouse, neurons, proteins, Science (journal), transcriptome}

Introducing the Unknome, Biology’s Black Box

_{David Coppedge
August 31, 2023

Biochemistry, Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Biology is becoming overwhelmed by new vistas of dynamic complexity. Attempts to get a handle on this complexity has ushered in the era of Omics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biological information, genes, illusion, information, intelligence, Marcello Barbieri, meaning, molecular biology, physicalism}

Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 10, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 13, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, cell biology, Darwin's Finches, Darwinian theory, developmental biology, DiscoveryU, evolution, fossils, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, materialism, molecular biology, natural selection, online course, peppered moths, podcast, textbooks, whales}

Jonathan Wells Evaluates Darwinian Evolution in New Online Course

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 13, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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How strong is the evidence for Darwinian evolution? What are the limits of the Darwinian mechanism? Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Planetology
Tagged
, algorithms, calculus, DNA, double helix, genetic code, Greek, incompleteness theorem, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Leo Tolstoy, mathematician, mechanics, molecular biology, particles, Sanskrit, TIME, U.S. Constitution}

Iterations of Immortality

_{David Berlinski
June 13, 2023

Evolution, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Planetology

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The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. Read More ›