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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, antibiotics, COVID-19, Douglas Axe, genetic material, genomes, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mortality, mutations, pandemic, population, RNA, Stephen Meyer, viruses, Winston Ewert}

Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

_{Emily Reeves
October 3, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autism, cancer, DNA, eukaryotes, evolution, gene expression, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, motors, mutations, nucleotides, phenotypes, proteins, repetitive elements, schizophrenia, Science (journal), Short Tandem Repeats}

Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”

_{Casey Luskin
September 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Rheostats are “often used as power control devices, for example to control light intensity (dimmer), speed of motors, heaters, and ovens.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, circulatory system, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary pathway, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, mutations, podcast}

Engineering Prowess of the Blood Clotting Cascade

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 24, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Evolution doesn’t perform particularly well when you need to make multiple co-dependent mutations,” says Dr. McLatchie. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, base pairs, Bayesian reasoning, BioCosmos, causal circularity, DNA, first life, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, likelihood ratio, mutations, proteins, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, Sy Garte, teleology}

First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 14, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors. Read More ›

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Date
September 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, Darwin’s God, Dennis Venema, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, podcast, Ray Bohlin, scientists, The Edge of Evolution, unguided evolution}

An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

_{Science & Culture
September 2, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, BIO-Complexity, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, coordinated mutations, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, fossils, humans, inner ear, intelligent design, milk, mutations, peer-reviewed literature, proteins, species, whales, Winston Ewert}

From Winston Ewert, New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model

_{Brian Miller
August 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Ewert's model represents a valuable tool in the developing theory of biological design, which should eventually supplant phylogenetic analyses. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, analogy, ATP synthase, Bruce Alberts, Cell (journal), historical sciences, Hubert Yockey, humans, intelligence, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machines, mutations, natural selection, specified information, theology, U.S. National Academy of Sciences}

No, Intelligent Design Doesn’t Reason by Analogy; Here’s Why

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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We also see machines in living systems. That’s not to say that cells or living systems on the whole are “machines,” but they do contain machines. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Asa Gray, biologists, caterpillars, cats, chance, Charles Darwin, Dogs, evolution, evolutionary theory, Isaac Newton, mice, mutations, randomness, theology, Twitter, UC Davis}

A Debate on the “Randomness” of Mutation

_{Paul Nelson
August 3, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Metaphysics

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The historical wellspring of randomness in evolutionary theory is Darwin’s own insistence on “chance” at the causal foundations of life. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
June 28, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, convergence, Darwinians, dinosaurs, DNA, explanatory filter, Explore Evolution, improbability, intelligence, mutations, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Paul Nelson, Ralph Seelke, sauropods, Scott Minnich, specification, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski, worldview}

Long Necks in Sauropod Dinosaurs — By Neo-Darwinism or Intelligent Design?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 28, 2023

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The origin of the ingeniously intricate long necks in sauropod dinosaurs has been postulated to have arisen more than 35 times independently. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, chloroquine, chloroquine resistance, Darwin Devolves, drugs, evolution, evolutionary processes, fitness landscape, genotype, HIV, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, phenotype, Plasmodium falciparum, Professor Dave, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I wonder whether Farina has in fact read Behe’s book for himself, or whether he is relying upon others, such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›