Tag: Nature Reviews Genetics

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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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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, CSI, dependency graph, DNA, evolution, explanatory power, Forrest Mims, genomes, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, medicine, Michael Behe, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, nested hierarchy, predictions, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Science (journal), Scientific American, selection, software, Susumu Ohno, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), The Selfish Gene, Winston Ewert}

Does Darwinian Theory Make the Same Predictions as Intelligent Design?

_{Casey Luskin
May 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

11}

Richard Dawkins predicted that “a large fraction” of our genomes has no function, because, “The true ‘purpose’ of DNA is to survive, no more and no less." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, Annual Review of Genetics, apes, BioEssays, BioLogos, chimpanzees, Christianity, common ancestry, CRISPR, Dennis Venema, Evangelicals, evolution, evolutionary theory, functionality, gorillas, hominids, human origins, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), intelligent design, Jesus Christ, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, macaques, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), Nature Reviews Genetics, Ola Hössjer, Paul Nelson, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pseudogenes, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), S. Joshua Swamidass, Springer, theology, William Lane Craig}

Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve

_{Casey Luskin
November 23, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Annual Review of Genetics, DNA, evolution, hierarchy, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature Reviews Genetics, neo-Darwinian theory, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, RNA, universal common ancestry}

Pseudogenes Aren’t Nonfunctional Relics that Refute Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
September 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

These claims represent a classic but false “junk DNA” argument against intelligent design. Read More ›

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Date
April 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, appendix, Charles Darwin, coccyx, Darwin-skeptics, diarrhea, disabilities, evolution, Foresight (book), Francis Collins, Icons of Evolution, Immune System, infection, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John West, Jonathan Wells, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Egnor, Nature Reviews Genetics, pseudogenes, The Biology of the Second Reich, The Myth of Junk DNA, vestigial structures, Wikipedia, Zombie Science (book)}

Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”

_{Science & Culture
April 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities. 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

17}

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 ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 9, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, cellular functions, chromosomes, common ancestry, DNA, Endogenous retroviruses, ERVs, evolution, Evolution News, gene regulatory networks, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Genetics, neo-Darwinian theory, Philip Skell, primates, Research, synteny, The Scientist, transposable elements}

Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”

_{Casey Luskin
September 9, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

A pair of new articles in Nature Genetics acknowledge just how widespread ERV and retrotransposon functionality is. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, APOB, Arthur Hunt, blubber, brown bears, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, devolution, evolution, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), mice, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Nature Reviews Genetics, New Scientist, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: New Evidence That Michael Behe Is Right

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

30}

Many studies show that degradative mutations in APOB cause decreased cholesterol. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
February 6, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, Current Biology, Dennis Venema, DNA, evolution, functional sequences, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, Nature Reviews Genetics, protein folding, proteins, RNA, Sapientia, sequence space, Undeniable (book)}

Losing the Forest by Fixating on the Trees — A Response to Venema’s Critique of Undeniable

_{Douglas Axe
February 6, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

13}

I was asked recently to take part in an online symposium. The journal Sapientia, published by the Carl F.H. Henry Center, invited four theistic evolutionists to review my book. Read More ›