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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, falsification, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, topology, Tree of Life, Twitter, YouTube videos}

Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway

_{Paul Nelson
August 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Early in his presentation, McInerney says that he hopes to persuade his audience that this familiar LUCA-based hypothesis “has been falsified.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 26, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Chengjiang fossils, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, Live Science, Marble Canyon, Morocco, National Science Foundation, Ordovician Period, PNAS, Porifera, Precambrian strata, Return of the God Hypothesis, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Vernanimalcula}

Evolutionists Spin the Cambrian Explosion — But Alas, All in Vain

_{David Coppedge
July 26, 2023

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Fossils are great; the more the better. Experience from spectacular discoveries assures us that no surprises will change Charles Darwin's own cause for doubt. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, efficiency, electron transport chain, electrons, factory, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, membranes, Michael Behe, mitochondria, narrative gloss, Nature (journal), oxidative phosphorylation, PNAS, protists, Science Advances, superintelligence}

Compact Factory Optimizes Shape for Efficiency — A New Level of Intelligent Design in Life

_{David Coppedge
July 20, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A microbe was found to organize its electron transport machinery in a way that bends the membrane for optimum energy utilization. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeoraptor, cheetahs, China, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francisco Ayala, fraud, junk science, New World, Pleistocene, PNAS, Russia, Science (journal), skull}

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

_{Günter Bechly
June 16, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, archaea, boron, cabbage, Casey Luskin, cobalt, coffee, copper, corn, Dartmouth College, elements, hemoglobin, human body, intelligent design, iron, manganese, Michael Denton, milk, mushrooms, nickel, nuts, onions, organs, oysters, peas, phosphorus, PNAS, potassium, Privileged Species, protein science, The Miracle of the Cell, tissues, Uppsala University, urine, zinc}

Brother, Can You Spare a Nickel? It’s Essential for Life, and Likely an Indicator of Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
June 8, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Nickel is an essential element in the human body, but too much is toxic. Here’s another element our planet had to provide. Read More ›

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Date
May 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blind processes, chemical evolution, Eric Anderson, intelligent design, Long Story Short, PNAS, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, Rob Stadler, self-replication, YouTube videos}

Could Blind Forces Build a Self-Replicating Molecule?

_{Science & Culture
May 15, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Rob Stadler and Eric Anderson examine a recent paper on the origin of life, “An RNA Polymerase Ribozyme that Synthesizes Its Own Ancestor.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, Australia, bioRxiv, fungi, genes, genomes, horizontal gene transfer, information, jumping genes, microbes, Neo-Darwinism, PNAS, prokaryotes, selfish genes, SETI, Star Trek, Sweden, transposable elements, transposons, Uppsala University}

Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go

_{David Coppedge
April 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Newly recognized large transposable elements in fungi dubbed Starships may not be selfish after all. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amniotes, amphibians, babies, balance, Current Biology, fish, hair cells, head, Howard Glicksman, mammals, mechanotransduction, middle ear, morphology, nervous system, neurons, PNAS, reflexes, Sports, Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body}

Balance: Bipeds Need It; Where Did It Come From?

_{David Coppedge
April 20, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“The calyx appeared,” says Dr. Rob Raphael. A more magical explanation could hardly be fabricated. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ATP synthase, bacterial cell, cells, complexity, DNA, efficiency, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, evolutionary biologists, humpback whale, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Living Waters, Michael Denton, molecular machines, natural selection, PNAS, proofreading, proteins, Richard Sternberg, salmon, Uppsala University}

Denton’s “Puzzle of Perfection,” Then and Now

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The flip side of Darwin’s proposal of natural selection as a designer substitute is that “things look designed — because they are designed.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, ATP synthase, biophysicists, Golgi apparatus, intelligent design, molecular machines, photosynthesis, PNAS, quality control, University of Tokyo}

A Biochemical Icon of Intelligent Design, ATP Synthase Does More than Spin

_{David Coppedge
March 22, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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As super-resolution imaging improves, the world’s smallest rotary motor continues to amaze. Read More ›