Tag: paradigm shift

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alexis de Tocqueville, animals, capitalism, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Europe, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biologists, food, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Margaret Sanger, mental climate, Modern Synthesis, Neil Thomas, On the Origin of Species, paradigm shift, population, printing press, Social Darwinism, Thomas Malthus, United States, Winston Churchill, World War II, worldview, Zeitgeist}

Evolution Evolved to Mirror the Zeitgeist

_{Daniel Witt
June 4, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

12}

By the mid 1800s, the mental climate had shifted, and the time was ripe for a new Darwin to craft a new Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bibliography, BioEssays, disease, ENCODE, function, junk DNA, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, Research, scientific literature}

Defending Our Literature Survey on Function for Junk DNA

_{Casey Luskin
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Our list only scratches the surface of the literature, and you can’t negate the existence of that body of literature through a few complaints. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Douglas Axe, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheists, Normal Science, panpsychism, paradigm shift, post-truth, Professor Dave, PZ Myers, religious right, Royal Society, Sam Harris, scientism, spiritualism, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution, tipping point, vitalism, Zeitgeist}

Is This a Paradigm Shift?

_{Daniel Witt
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

7}

Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 28, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioEssays, biologists, Carmen Sapienza, Columbia University, DNA, ENCODE, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Forrest Mims, Francis Crick, Genome Biology and Evolution, genomes, intelligent design, John Bodnar, John Mattick, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Human Evolution, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Living with Darwin, Long Story Short, Nature (journal), Nature Methods, Oxford University Press, paradigm shift, Philip Kitcher, predictions, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, Taylor & Francis, The Greatest Show on Earth, University of Toronto, W. Ford Doolittle, What’s in Your Genome, William A. Dembski}

New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
March 28, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 28, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Ecology
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", anesthesia, arteries, astrobiology, autocatalysis, Biomimetics, blood, blood vessels, circulation, coacervates, confession, conservation, genes, George Washington Carver, heart, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, James Joule, James Simpson, James Tour, Joana Xavier, Johannes Kepler, Leslie Orgel, memory, methodological naturalism, Michael Faraday, mRNA vaccines, Murchison meteorite, Nick Lane, paradigm shift, Paul Nelson, proteinoid microspheres, proteins, reverse-engineering, RNA world, Robert Boyle, Robert Shapiro, scientific revolution, Signature in the Cell, spark-discharge tubes, Stephen Meyer, Susan Mazur, Systems Biology, target of selection, The Origin of Life Circus, University College London, veins, William Harvey}

From Nature, a Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

_{David Coppedge
February 28, 2024

Biochemistry, Ecology, Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science

12}

The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 23, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, Caltech, cell biology, cells, condensates, DNA, droplets, endoplasmic reticulum, eukaryotes, evolution, intelligent design, membrane lipids, membranes, mitochondria, molecular biology, molecular machines, organelles, paradigm shift, peroxisomes, PLOS Biology, proteins, speckles, TIM, tom, transfer RNA, tRNA}

Getting It Together: Tethers, Handshakes, and Multitaskers in the Cell

_{David Coppedge
February 23, 2024

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Running a cell requires coordination. How do molecules moving in the dark interior of a cell know how and when to connect? Protein tethers offer new clues. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agency, BioEssays, blueprint, Brian Miller, Bruce Alberts, Cell (journal), computers, Denis Noble, Dennis Venema, diseases, DNA, Douglas Axe, evolution, factory, genes, genomes, How Life Works, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, junk DNA, machines, Nature (journal), organisms, paradigm shift, Philip Ball, proteins, purpose, RNA genes, traits, transformers}

Denis Noble in Nature: “Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life”

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

In his review, Noble comes right out and says that “Classic views of evolution should also be questioned.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological functions, Casey Luskin, DNA, evolution, gene expression, genome, ID the Future, information suites, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, molecular biologists, non-coding DNA, non-protein coding regions, paradigm shift, Short Tandem Repeats, STRs}

Casey Luskin on Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 3, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Intelligent design theorists have long argued against the idea that non-protein coding DNA is useless evolutionary junk. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anomalies, BioEssays, brain function, dogmatism, epigenetic information, evidence, evolution, evolutionary theory, function, gene regulation, genes, genetic programming, geochemical anomalies, inheritance, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, molecular biology, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, RNA genes, Thomas Kuhn}

The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

_{Casey Luskin
November 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, addiction, alleles, anomalies, Barbara McClintock, BioEssays, circadian rhythms, cognition, DNA, enhancers, epigenetic code, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, evolution, genes, genomes, human genome, intelligence, intelligent design, introns, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, methylation, molecular biology, mRNAs, neutral evolution, paradigm shift, personality, retroviruses, Ribosome, Scientific American, Short Tandem Repeats, Thomas Kuhn, transposable elements, transposons}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›