Tag: proteins

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, architecture, biological systems, biology, cell boundary, cells, chance events, charge gradients, chemical mixture, chemical reactions, chemical transformations, chemistry, complexity, control, control systems, coordinated manufacturing, coordination, emerging system, Energy, energy management, engineering, environmental sources, equilibrium, experiments, feedback regulation, hydrothermal vents, information, information processing, intentions, life, natural engines, natural processes, organization, origin of life, physical forces, proteins, thermodynamics, undirected natural processes}

Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

_{Brian Miller
September 14, 2026

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, amino acids, cells, cellular metabolism, chemical reactions, chemists, DNA, early Earth, Energy, energy production, failed models, information processing, investigators, mind, nanozymes, nucleotide chains, origin of life, overinterpretation, particles, peptides, photosynthesis, polymerization, Protein World, proteins, Research (journal), RNA, RNA world, self-replicating RNA, thermodynamics, Yongdong Jin}

Nonsense with “Nanozymes”: New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress

_{Brian Miller
September 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

Yongdong Jin proposes that microscopic particles, which he terms nanozymes, orchestrated many of the major steps in the synthesis of the first cell. Read More ›

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post

Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 24, 2026

Categories
Biology
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, avida, biological systems, biology, chaperone, Christoph Adami, crystallin, Darwinian evolution, experiments, eye evolution, function, letters, mutation rate, proteins, The Evolution of Biological Information, vertebrate eye}

Avida and Making Eye Evolution Seem Plausible

_{Winston Ewert
August 24, 2026

Biology, Computational Sciences, Evolution

4}

Adami says, “it is hard not to see the parallels to other evolutionary innovations, for example the co-option of the existing crystallin protein in the eye.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 21, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, bacteria, Cit+, complex molecular interactions, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), eukaryotes, evolution, fitness landscapes, generation time, genomes, HIV, mammals, Michael Behe, mutation rates, mutations, patients, population sizes, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, viruses, Vpu, YouTubers}

In Defense of The Edge of Evolution, a Response to Dave Farina

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 21, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Genetics

5}

If evolution is capable of producing complex molecular interactions, the place where we would most expect to find them is in viruses like HIV. Read More ›

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post

Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, AlphaFold3, apoptosis, bioinformatic data, cancer, cancer cells, carboxy-terminal domain, cell death, cells, chemotherapy, chromatin, Darwin’s Black Box, DNA, DNA replication, double helix, enzymes, Freed-Hardeman University, intrinsically disordered regions, Irreducible Complexity, isoforms, Joe Deweese, mutants, proteins, replication, TOP2A, TOP2B, topoisomerases, toxic side effects}

How Irreducible Complexity Can Help with Cancer Drug Research

_{Emily Reeves
August 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Medicine

8}

Topoisomerases are molecular machines that play a critical role in resolving DNA tangles and supercoiling generated during DNA replication. Read More ›

The Dynamic Dance of Salmonella enterica Flagella A Swirling Symphony of Bacterial Locomotion

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 20, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, binding interface, biological systems, bushing, cells, clutch, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, E. coli, Educating Dave Farina (series), irreducibly complex systems, LP ring, machine language, machines, motor, multicellular organisms, nanomachines, proteins, qualification, quotation marks, quote marks, RNA polymerase, scientific literature, The Edge of Evolution, transcription, transcription factors, YouTubers}

Has Dave Farina Refuted Behe and Me on the Bacterial Flagellum?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 20, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The use of machine language to describe biological systems is standard in the scientific literature. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 19, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alpha helix, animals, apes, bacteria, bacterial flagella, biochemists, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), evolution, HIV-1, Michael Behe, multicellular organisms, mutations, population genetics, population sizes, proteins, residues, tetherin, tetherin antagonism, The Edge of Evolution, transmembrane domain, viruses, Vpu, YouTubers}

Answering Dave Farina on the Vpu Protein in HIV-1

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 19, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Farina’s dismissal of this important point suggests that he does not understand the subject of population genetics very well. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, artificial cell, bioengineers, biomolecules, Casey Luskin, CNN, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, genetic material, intelligent design, living cells, machinery, Mary Shelley, media, metabolism, molecular machines, natural environment, New York Post, nutrients, pasta, proteins, replications, ribosomes, science reporters, scientists, self-replication, SpudCells}

Luskin on SpudCell in NY Post: It’s NOT Alive!

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2026

Biology, Evolution

2}

Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's horror novel came closer to creating life, based on misunderstandings of her own about “experiments of Dr. [Erasmus] Darwin.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 16, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal behaviors, bioinformaticians, biology, biomedicine, biopolymers, Budapest, Carlo Alberto Cossano, cells, chemical engineer, chemical engineers, cultural anthropologists, Danube River, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, engineering, ERTEM, Germany, human origins, Hungarian, Hungarian Parliament Building, Hungary, information, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, Italy, languages, molecular machines, Norway, origin of life, orphan genes, Poland, proteins, Research, Unexpected Genome, United Kingdom}

Postcard from Budapest: Intelligent Design Is Growing in Europe

_{Casey Luskin
August 16, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

3}

I started with a brief explanation of what ID theory is and how it works and then went through about a dozen examples of ID research. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 3, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Murray, antibodies, ATP synthase, bacteria, bacterial flagellar motor, bacterial flagellum, biochemistry, Biophysical Journal, blood clotting cascade, cells, chemotaxis, cilium, Current Biology, Dan Tawfik, Darwin’s Black Box, David Snoke, Douglas Axe, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, eukaryotic cell division, evolutionary pathways, Harvard University, homology, injectisome, irreducibly complex systems, Journal of Theoretical Biology, macrobiological features, Michael Behe, molecular machinery, molecular machines, motility, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Heredity, Nicholas Matzke, Oxford University Press, PNAS, polar bears, protein science, proteins, Quarterly Review of Biology, Ribosome, Science (journal), T3SS, The Edge of Evolution, type three secretory system, universal common ancestor, vision, William Dembski}

Darwin’s Black Box at 30: The Evidence Wins!

_{Casey Luskin
August 3, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Macrobiological features have been cited as irreducibly complex, including animal joints and the trap mechanisms of carnivorous plants, even the cell itself. Read More ›