Tag: Nature Ecology and Evolution

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Date
July 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, BIO-Complexity, buried treasure, Conservation of Information, Douglas Axe, downhill, elevation, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fitness, flood, higher ground, hill climbing, information, local optimum, mathematics, natural selection, Nature Ecology and Evolution, optimum, protein folds, RNA sequences, Sam F. Greenbury, uphill, Winston Ewert}

New Paper: Appeals to Evolutionary Plateaus Do Not Save Evolution

_{Science & Culture
July 13, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In evolution, mutations that increase fitness can be thought of as moving uphill, whereas mutations that decrease fitness can be thought of as moving downhill. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, astrobiology, bacteria, Canada, cell division, common ancestry, common design, DNA replication, eukaryotes, fossil record, genetic code, genomes, Greenland, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, Nature Ecology and Evolution, prokaryotes, Ribosome, ScienceAlert, Stephen Jay Gould}

Study Finds Life’s Origin “Required a Surprisingly Short Interval of Geologic Time”

_{Casey Luskin
July 18, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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It’s certainly not impossible that life was already present on Earth at 4.2 Ga. And if it were true it would have intriguing implications. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, BioLogos, chimpanzees, computational biology, Dennis Venema, Endogenous retroviruses, evolutionary creation, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, Francis Collins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, junk DNA, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Reviews Genetics, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University London, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, theistic evolution, University of Stockholm, Washington University}

Does the Scientific Evidence Support Evolutionary Models of Human Origins?

_{Casey Luskin
June 12, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The fossil record shows a break between the australopithecines, supposedly directly ancestral to our genus, and the first humanlike members of the genus. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, bottleneck, Calvin College, Christianity Today, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, DNA, Evangelical Christians, Evangelicals, evolutionary creation, evolutionary science, Francis Collins, humans, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Nature Ecology and Evolution, npr, Ola Hössjer, Queen Mary University, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science and Human Origins, Scot McKnight, The Language of God, theistic evolution, Trinity Western University, William Lane Craig}

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, biologists, Darwin Devolves, devolution, DNA, E. coli, evolution, hydrogen peroxide, mutations, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Richard Lenski, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, University of Michigan}

Helpful Devolutionary Mutations Are Rapid and Unavoidable: Paper Reinforces Darwin Devolves

_{Michael Behe
March 5, 2020

Evolution, Life Sciences

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There is simply no way for any unguided, unintelligent account of the unfolding of life to avoid the bane of helpful degradative mutations. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, alcohol, biological information, Darwin's Doubt, Drosophila melanogaster, enzyme, evolution, evolutionary biology, fitness, fruit, genes, genotype, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Nature Ecology and Evolution, phenotype, proteins, Stephen Meyer, word salad}

On the Evolutionary Origin of New Genes, Stephen Meyer Is Vindicated Again

_{Casey Luskin
October 26, 2018

Evolution

9}

Most studies simply infer or invent some story about the evolution of a gene without any experimental tests. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 25, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, alleles, bottleneck, chimpanzees, Christianity, Dennis Venema, effective population size, genetic diversity, heterozygosity, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University, population size, Queen Mary University, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, Richard Buggs}

Adam and the Genome and Human Genetic Diversity

_{Science & Culture
January 25, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Nobody in the ID community is capable of showing Dennis Venema to be wrong? Well, that’s a bit heavy on the attitude. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 14, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge University, Douglas Axe, Ediacaran Period, evolution, intelligent design, Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, Nature Ecology and Evolution, oxygen theory, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma}

In Ediacaran Seas, Huge Rangeomorphs Appeared with a “Bang”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 14, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Anything that Simon Conway Morris puts his name on is of immediate interest, but this would seem to evade the most fascinating question of all in life’s history. Read More ›