Tag: Plasmodium falciparum

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antimalarial drugs, Casey Luskin, chloroquine, chloroquine resistance, Darwin Devolves, drugs, evolution, evolutionary processes, fitness landscape, genotype, HIV, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, phenotype, Plasmodium falciparum, Professor Dave, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

I wonder whether Farina has in fact read Behe’s book for himself, or whether he is relying upon others, such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arthur Hunt, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, biological adaptations, chloroquine resistance, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), hypercube, James Shapiro, Jason Rosenhouse, Kenneth Miller, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), On the Origin of Species, Plasmodium falciparum, probabilities, The Edge of Evolution, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, The Third Way, University of Chicago}

Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

_{William A. Dembski
June 29, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Read More ›

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Author
Eric H. Anderson

Date
February 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, biological systems, Casey Luskin, CCC, chloroquine complexity cluster, chloroquine resistance, coordinated mutations, evolution, intelligent design, Laurence Moran, Michael Behe, mutation rate, mutations, PfCRT, Plasmodium falciparum, PNAS, proteins, Robert L. Summers, Sandwalk, The Edge of Evolution}

Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance

_{Eric H. Anderson
February 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process. Read More ›

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Author
Eric H. Anderson

Date
February 25, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Casey Luskin, chloroquine resistance, circular reasoning, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Laurence Moran, Michael Behe, Milky Way, Plasmodium falciparum, PZ Myers, Robert L. Summers, Sandwalk, Sean Carroll, Stephen Jay Gould, The Edge of Evolution, University of Toronto}

How Much Can Evolution Really Accomplish?

_{Eric H. Anderson
February 25, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Unsatisfied with circular evolutionary arguments and lazy reasoning, Michael Behe decided to pose his question to the real-world data. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
November 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Current Biology, devolution, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary tree, functionality, genetic information, ID the Future, introns, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, Plasmodium falciparum, podcast, technical papers, Tree of Life, yeast}

Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan Witt
November 27, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

2}

Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Read More ›

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Date
November 4, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chloroquine resistance, convergence, evolution, genes, intelligent design, malaria, Michael Behe, microbiologists, neo-Darwinists, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, red blood cells, The Edge of Evolution}

If Malaria Is Evolving, It’s Not Doing It Darwin’s Way

_{Science and Culture
November 4, 2021

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Are scientists in Texas catching malaria in the act of evolving, or is something else going on? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
September 30, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Darwin Devolves, devolution, elephants, Ethiopia, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, ivory poaching, malaria, Nature Microbiology, parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, tuskless elephants, tusks}

Devolution Watch: Malaria Gnaws Off a Leg

_{Michael Behe
September 30, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

3}

The most frequently used diagnostic test kit checks for the presence in the patient’s blood of either of two similar malarial proteins, called pfhrp2 or pfhrp3. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 30, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, chloroquine, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, evolution, Food and Drug Administration, hydroxychloroquine, intelligent design, malaria, Michael Behe, Plasmodium falciparum, SARS-CoV-2, South America, Spain, The Edge of Evolution, viruses}

Approved by FDA Against COVID-19, Chloroquine Is Also Prominent in the Case for Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

2}

Something I had not heard before is a really clear explanation of how chloroquine works, on the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum and, perhaps, on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 22, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Amber Rice, bacteria, citrate, Darwin Devolves, degradative mutations, DNA, DNA repair, Dogs, E. coli, evolution, Evolution (journal), First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, genes, glucose, Greg Lang, Journal of Molecular Evolution, laboratory, Lehigh University, Lenski lab, loss-of-function mutations, machines, malaria, microbes, nature, Plasmodium falciparum, polar bear, proteins, Richard Lenski, wooly mammoth, yeast}

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1

_{Michael Behe
March 22, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Their review pretty much completely misses the mark. Nonetheless, it is a good illustration of how sincere-yet-perplexed professional evolutionary biologists view the data. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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 ›