Tag: protein evolution

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Author
Kate Kavanaugh

Date
March 10, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, academia, Casey Luskin, deadline, DNA, education, evolution, Garden of the Gods, geologists, graduate students, intelligent design, National Natural Landmark, protein evolution, researchers, rock formations, scholars, sciences, scientocracy, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teaching, truth, undergraduates, universal common descent, worldview, writing}

The CSC Summer Seminars: Once in a Lifetime, All Expenses Paid

_{Kate Kavanaugh
March 10, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Listening to scholars from various disciplines, and surrounded by the breathtaking scenery, I was awestruck by the truth and beauty of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, antibodies, atheism, beta-lactamase, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cell (journal), Christians, COVID-19, Dan Tawfik, Darrel Falk, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Explore Evolution, fossil record, Graham Budd, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, peer-reviewed literature, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, precambrian fossils, protein evolution, Puck Mendelssohn, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, rhetoric, RNA, RNA world, Scott Buchanan, Sören Jensen, Stephen Meyer, theism, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry, universe}

From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

_{Casey Luskin
May 15, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, biological complexity, convergence, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, laws of nature, Ockham’s razor, preconditions, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, science, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), William A. Dembski}

Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

_{Casey Luskin and Stephen Dilley
March 19, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

8}

If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 10, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, complexity, Emily Reeves, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, laws of nature, philosophers, podcast, protein evolution, Rope Kojonen, Stephen Dilley, theologians}

The Incompatibility of Evolution and Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 10, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Though Dr. Rope Kojonen acknowledges the design of the flagellum, he credits a rigged evolutionary process with its creation. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, analogy, bacterial flagellum, complexity, Design Inference, evolution, evolutionary theory, gambling, initial conditions, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, jackpot, laws of nature, living systems, molecular machines, natural processes, natural selection, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, serendipity, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theist on the street, universe, University of Helsinki}

Intelligently Designed Evolution? Sorry, Wrong Universe

_{Casey Luskin
February 15, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Many in the intelligent design camp have considered the possibility that the evolutionary process was designed. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 20, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, amino acids, Casey Luskin, Emily Reeves, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary mechanisms, functional sequences, functionality, functions, intelligent design, isolation, Jupiter, laws of nature, No Free Lunch theorems, planets, protein evolution, proteins, rarity, Rope Kojonen, sequence space, spacecraft, stars, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)}

Proteins Are Rare and Isolated — And Thus, Cannot Evolve

_{Brian Miller
November 20, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Here is a simple analogy. Imagine a planetary rover lands on the north pole of a planet, and the humans controlling it wish to drive to the south pole. Read More ›

Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Eric Anderson, evolution, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, monogenesis, mutations, parents, podcast, population genetics, protein evolution, proteins, waiting-time problem}

Protein Evolution, the Waiting-Time Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 30, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

1}

After being asked to evaluate the scientific case against Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger dove into population genetics. Read More ›

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post

Date
November 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chemists, computer simulation, design principles, Douglas Axe, evolution, golf, golf ball, Hamlet, Harvard University, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Michael Behe, National Academy of Sciences, natural selection, optimization, PNAS, polypeptides, protein evolution, proteins, Richard Dawkins, syllogism, Undeniable (book), Weasel program}

Are Proteins Attracted to Function?

_{Science and Culture
November 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Doug Axe showed that functional space is a tiny fraction of sequence space in proteins. Evolutionists think they found a shortcut. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, Cambridge Medical Research Council Centre, Darwinian mechanisms, Douglas Axe, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Latin, Michael Behe, molecular biology, Ola Hössjer, peer review, protein evolution, Robert J. Marks II, scientists, statistics, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm University, Undeniable (book), University of Tromsø, waiting-time problem, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Breakout Paper in Journal of Theoretical Biology Explicitly Supports Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
October 5, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

17}

If the paper is any indication, appearing as it does in a prominent journal, some of the suffocating constraints on ID advocacy may be coming off. Read More ›

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post

Date
May 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, cells, Darwinians, Darwinism, evolutionists, fitness, mutations, neo-functionalization, organisms, PNAS, protein evolution, proteins, pseudogenes, selection}

Collateral Damage: Mutations Decrease Fitness in More Ways than One

_{Science and Culture
May 20, 2020

Evolution

9}

If mutations are the raw material for evolution, they are like explosives with unpredictable effects. Read More ›