Tag: protein folds

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Date
July 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, BIO-Complexity, buried treasure, Conservation of Information, Douglas Axe, downhill, elevation, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fitness, flood, higher ground, hill climbing, information, local optimum, mathematics, natural selection, Nature Ecology and Evolution, optimum, protein folds, RNA sequences, Sam F. Greenbury, uphill, Winston Ewert}

New Paper: Appeals to Evolutionary Plateaus Do Not Save Evolution

_{Science & Culture
July 13, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In evolution, mutations that increase fitness can be thought of as moving uphill, whereas mutations that decrease fitness can be thought of as moving downhill. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 27, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, bacterial flagella, biochemists, bioinformatics, debates, demarcation criteria, DNA, Douglas Axe, falsifiability, glacial-interglacial cycles, God of the gaps, ID the Future, irreducibly complex systems, Keith Fox, Michael Behe, Peter S. Williams, philosophers, predictions, protein folds, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, Tim McGrew, type III secretion system, Unbelievable?}

Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 27, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, artificial inteligence, evolution, evolutionary process, fitness landscape, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, protein folds, proteins, researchers, sampling bias, simulation tool}

False Science: A Claim to Simulate Protein Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
August 6, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The researchers designed a simulation tool, and then falsely claimed that it represents the evolutionary process. Read More ›

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestral species, Avalon explosion, bacteria, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, genes, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, mammals, paleontologists, placental mammals, podcast, protein folds, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Triassic explosion}

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

3}

“There’s no reasonable way,” Bechly concludes, “to get from bacteria to mammals via evolutionary processes.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, beta-lactamase, calculations, cars, Design Inference, Douglas Axe, formalism, Jack Szostak, Kolmogorov information, Mount Rushmore, probability, protein folds, Shannon information, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus

_{William A. Dembski
March 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

The validity of these estimates and the degree to which they can be refined can be disputed. But the underlying formalism of specified complexity is rock solid. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, beta-lactamase, biologic institute, Brian Miller, Cambridge, Dennis Venema, designer, Douglas Axe, E. coli, Emily Reeves, enzyme, evolution, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, New Scientist, No Free Lunch theorems, preconditions, protein folds, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), Unbelievable, universe}

Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds

_{Brian Miller and Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

17}

The following examination and defense of Dr. Axe serves as a direct, empirical test of Rope Kojonen’s design hypothesis. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, biogeography, cells, discontinuity, Douglas Theobald, embryology, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, intelligent design, paleontology, phyla, protein folds, rafting, Theistic Evolution (book), transitional forms, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry, viruses}

Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

_{Casey Luskin
June 11, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Mathematics

9}

For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino-acid sequences, Ann Gauger, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Caltech, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darrel Falk, Darwin's Doubt, David Snoke, Douglas Axe, Eric Davidson, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary creation, gene regulatory networks, genes, intelligent design, Michael Behe, population genetics, protein folds, proteins, purifying selection, Return of the God Hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution}

Darrel Falk’s Volte-Face on the Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
June 1, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

I appreciate that Dr. Falk and his colleagues at BioLogos would like to engage in a productive “dialogue” with proponents of intelligent design. Read More ›

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post

Date
February 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, amino acids, Biola University, Cambridge University, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, design intuition, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, Journal of Molecular Biology, molecular biology, podcast, protein evolution, protein folds, proteins, random mutations, Unbelievable}

Listen: Molecular Biologist Douglas Axe Explains the Protein Evolution Problem

_{Science & Culture
February 4, 2020

Evolution

2}

If evolution can’t build something as basic as a new protein fold, how could it build whole new organs and body plans in the history of life? Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 4, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, __edited, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dan Tawfik, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Debating Darwin's Doubt, development, evolution, Gerd Müller, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor, mutations, neo-Darwinian theory, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, paleontology, Peter Robinson, protein folds, proteins, Quillette, Royal Society, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, The Deniable Darwin, Weizmann Institute}

Coyne, Bechly, Miller, Berlinski: Scientists Debate David Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

_{David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Mathematics

7}

If anyone is worrying, it is Coyne and his fellow Darwinists, alarmed at the defection of a stellar intellect like Gelernter. Read More ›