Tag: promoters

^{Type
post

Author
Emily Reeves

Date
July 14, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bacillus subtilis, biology, chromosome, ComK, competence, ComS, ComX, crowdsourcing, CSF, developmental state, DNA, DNA expression, environment, exogenous DNA, genes, genetic material, genome, information, intelligent design, mRNA, nutrient status, pheromone, population signals, promoters, regulation, regulatory feedback, Sigma-H, sporulation, Theodosius Dobzhansky, transcription, xenogenic DNA}

Crowdsourcing DNA: Sophisticated Biological Information Processing

_{Emily Reeves
July 14, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

8}

To adapt the words of Theodosius Dobzhansky, I’m persuaded that nothing in biology makes sense except in light of intelligent design. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 18, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, autoimmune disease, biology, biomarkers, cancer, Cell (journal), disease, dysregulation, evolution, exons, gene enhancers, gene expression, gene regulatory networks, gene silencers, genetics, genome architecture, genome organization, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, lncRNAs, mammalian DNA, methylation, Nature (journal), neurodegeneration, non-coding RNAs, promoters, repetitive DNA, RNA, Science (journal), splicing regulators, transposable elements}

Paper in Cell Reports “Paradigm Shift” Against TEs as “Genomic Parasites or Junk DNA”

_{Casey Luskin
June 18, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

4}

This language is remarkable coming from a journal often considered the third most important in the world for biology. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, cells, evolution, Explore Evolution, genes, intelligent design, Kansas State Board of Education, mutations, promoters, Ralph Seelke, tryptophan, University of Minnesota}

Ralph Seelke: Remembering a Treasured Colleague

_{Ann Gauger
August 25, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

I first met you at a conference where you presented a paper on your experiment in long-term-evolution, or LTE. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 12, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, bacteria, cancer, HIV, intelligent design, James Tour, medicine, molecular machines, promoters, Rice University, RNA, scalpel, Stephen Meyer, viruses}

Manipulating Molecules: Combining Info + Nano for Better Medicine

_{Casey Luskin
November 12, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

8}

“Oscar Wilde said nature imitates art,” Meyer said. And today we’re going to see that “technology is able to imitate and even in some ways, improve on nature.” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apes, cancer, common ancestry, DNA, Endogenous retroviruses, enhancers, ERVs, evolution, evolutionary mechanism, gene expression, genome, humans, Immune System, intelligent design, junk DNA, lncRNAs, narrative gloss, promoters, viruses}

Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses

_{Casey Luskin
July 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
April 21, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromatin, cohesin, DNA, double helix, enhancers, enzymes, genome, intelligent design, loop extrusion, molecular motors, Nature (journal), nucleus, promoters, repair}

Cells Use Loop Extrusion to Keep DNA Optimized

_{Science & Culture
April 21, 2021

Intelligent Design

7}

A paper illustrates the action of DNA loop extrusion processes, which serve multiple functions to maintain the genome, with an interesting graphic: gears. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 12, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteriophages, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, enhancers, evolution, LTEE, Michigan State University, National Academy of Sciences, promoters, Richard Lenski, Science (journal), Sean Carroll, Telliamed Revisited, The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

_{Michael Behe
April 12, 2019

Biology, Evolution

6}

Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›