bacterial flagellum Type post Author Casey Luskin Date December 22, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , author, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, Brian Miller, co-option, coordination, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary models, H. Allen Orr, indirect evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, Nicholas Matzke, proteins, Rope Kojonen, Stephen Dilley, synchronization, T3SS, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series) Co-Option and Protein Homology Don’t Explain the Evolution of the Flagellum Casey Luskin December 22, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design 21 Rope Kojonen wants to join “design and evolution,” but only by setting aside some of the main features of the flagellum. Read More ›
DNA Type post Date March 31, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , centromeres, DNA, evolution, evolutionary processes, gene expression, Genome Research, human genome, intelligent design, Joe Felsenstein, John Avise, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nicholas Matzke, nucleic acids, repetitive elements, researchers, RNA, telomeres, transposable elements Researchers: What’s Evolutionary Debris to You Is Unexplored Territory to Us Science and Culture March 31, 2022 Evolution, Intelligent Design 3 From a new, open-access article, “Implications of the first complete human genome assembly.” Read More ›
Xenopus_laevis_02 2 Type post Author Casey Luskin Date February 20, 2019 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __k-review, CCC, chloroquine resistance, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Douglas Futuyma, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Genetics (journal), Jerry Coyne, Joseph Thornton, Kenneth Miller, Laurence Moran, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, Nathan Lents, National Academy of Sciences, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nicholas Matzke, oocyte, Plasmodium falciparum, PNAS, Response to Criticism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, Robert L. Summers, Russell Doolittle, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, The Edge of Evolution, Xenopus laevis From Swamidass on Chloroquine Resistance, a Response that Doesn’t Respond Casey Luskin February 20, 2019 Evolution 22 Swamidass’s response doesn’t address our main arguments, but he indicates he is impressed by what Darwinian mechanisms accomplished in generating chloroquine resistance. Read More ›
flagellum 2 Type post Author Brian Miller Date December 17, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, amino acids, bacterial flagellum, cooption, Darwin Devolves, degradation, Douglas Axe, Drosophila, E. coli, eye, filament, fitness landscape, Harvard University, hook, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, motor, Nicholas Matzke, propeller, proteins Advances in Biology Discredit Argument that Cooption Can Explain Irreducible Complexity Brian Miller December 17, 2018 Evolution, Intelligent Design 13 One of most popular attempts at explaining the flagellum via cooption was developed by Nicholas Matzke. Read More ›