Tag: olfaction

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post

Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
January 2, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, air, biochemistry, body, breathing, cardiac cycle, cycles, dust, human body, information, Krebs cycle, medical research, medical school, nasal cycle, nose, nostrils, olfaction, physicians, Popular Science, respiratory function, scientists, turbinates}

Olfaction in Three Dimensions: Introducing the Nasal Cycle

_{Howard Glicksman
January 2, 2026

Intelligent Design, Medicine

3}

Besides the nose helping the mouth to bring in air, it also screens out dust and pollutants, while warming and adding water to prepare it for the lungs. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, clicks, Current Biology, echolocation, evolution, exoplanets, grizzly bear, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, neurons, olfaction, signal, smell, snakes, testosterone, Washington University}

Noise Cancellation: A Remarkable Design Solution in Biology

_{David Coppedge
August 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The principle behind this biological methodology can be extended to every case in biology where an organism needs to discriminate signals from self. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, complexity, fish, gills, Illustra Media, intelligent design, ions, kidneys, Lad Allen, life cycle, Living Waters, muscles, navigation, nerve cells, nerves, Nobel Prize, olfaction, Pacific Salmon, potassium, PubMed, salmon, senses, sodium, spawning, University of New Mexico, urine}

Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation

_{David Coppedge
January 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

Three main things must occur for the young salmon, called a smolt, to prepare for life in the salty ocean. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 27, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, calculus, Darwinian theory, Eric Cassell, hardware, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, Nature (journal), navigation, neurons, olfaction, phyla, PNAS, sea turtles, software, University of Toronto}

Navigation Ability Crosses Phylum Lines — And That’s a Problem for Evolution

_{Science and Culture
January 27, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

11}

Yes, that is kind of adorable. It took only a few days for the fish to learn to drive. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, Canada, Eric Cassell, ethology, evolution, flies, Flight: The Genius of Birds, instinct, intelligent design, magnetic field, Mexico, Monarch butterflies, mosquitos, National Zoo, Nature (journal), navigation, olfaction, rats, Rockefeller University, sea turtles, Stephen Talbott}

Uncannily Organic: Navigation Is More than Genes

_{Science and Culture
January 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The capabilities of animals to know their positions and make corrections seem beyond the abilities of coded instructions or brain size. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 27, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, antennae, bioRxiv, cilia, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, computer science, Current Biology, evolution, Illustra Media, Living Waters, mosquitos, NIH, olfaction, Pacific Salmon, pheromones, physiology, Salk Institute, smell, The Scientist, University of Montreal, University of Washington}

Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry

_{Science and Culture
August 27, 2019

Intelligent Design

7}

The ability to smell is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and sifting a torrent of input data quickly. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Behe

Date
February 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, blood-clotting cascade, Cambridge University Press, chloroquine, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, E. coli, Ernst Mayr, evolution, exaptation, Finding Darwin's God, gene duplication, hemoglobin, Hox genes, Kenneth Miller, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mammals, mutations, Nathan Lents, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, olfaction, PLoS Genetics, primates, Response to Criticism, ribose, Richard Lenski, Robert L. Summers, Russell Doolittle, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Train Wreck of a Review: A Response to Lenski et al. in Science

_{Michael Behe
February 14, 2019

Evolution

30}

Richard Lenski has spent decades overseeing the most extensive, most acclaimed laboratory evolution experiment conducted to date. Read More ›

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post

Date
October 16, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", babies, bacteria, brain scan, human body, intelligent design, liver, olfaction, Olfactory Sensory Neurons, physiology, PLOS ONE, Salk Institute, Science Advances, smell, University of Edinburgh, University of Illinois, viruses, vision}

The Blink of an Eye — And More Wonders of Human Body Design

_{Science and Culture
October 16, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Darwinists insist on your body’s “poor design.” Yeah, right. Check these out. Read More ›

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post

Date
September 19, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, arctic tern, bees, circadian clock, Current Biology, Darwinians, dragonflies, flies, migration, Monarch butterflies, moths, olfaction, Pacific Salmon, tuna, whale, zooplankton}

Marvelous Migrations at All Scales

_{Science and Culture
September 19, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Living things are on the move everywhere. Why do some of them go to great lengths to migrate, while others stay put? Read More ›

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post

Author
Paul Nelson

Date
June 28, 2018

Categories
Life Sciences
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __k-review, antennae, black swallowtail, butterflies, caterpillar, eggs, garden, insects, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, nature, olfaction}

“Make Mine Dill”

_{Paul Nelson
June 28, 2018

Life Sciences, Reproductive Science

1}

What amazes me is how the female butterflies can smell dill over great distances, and so deposit their eggs on the right plants. Read More ›