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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autism, cancer, DNA, eukaryotes, evolution, gene expression, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, motors, mutations, nucleotides, phenotypes, proteins, repetitive elements, schizophrenia, Science (journal), Short Tandem Repeats}

Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”

_{Casey Luskin
September 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Rheostats are “often used as power control devices, for example to control light intensity (dimmer), speed of motors, heaters, and ovens.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, base pairs, Bayesian reasoning, BioCosmos, causal circularity, DNA, first life, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, likelihood ratio, mutations, proteins, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, Sy Garte, teleology}

First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 14, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, beetles, bugs, butterflies, caterpillars, cockroaches, Current Biology, ecosystems, flies, Metamorphosis, mollusks, Monash University, moths, Nature Communications, pollinators, proteins, snails, Space Force, spiders, wasps}

Intelligent Design in Unlovable Creatures

_{David Coppedge
September 13, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Between cells and humans, there are millions of "ugly duckling" species that are beautiful in their own way. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Barbara McClintock, cells, Chance and Necessity, circuitry, cognition, Daniel Nicholson, DNA, function, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, machine metaphor, membranes, molecular biology, nucleic acids, proteins, self-assembly}

Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 31, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, 23andMe, central dogma, complexity, genome, genomics, Harvard University, information, intelligent design, interactome, metabolites, molecular biology, mouse, neurons, proteins, Science (journal), transcriptome}

Introducing the Unknome, Biology’s Black Box

_{David Coppedge
August 31, 2023

Biochemistry, Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Biology is becoming overwhelmed by new vistas of dynamic complexity. Attempts to get a handle on this complexity has ushered in the era of Omics. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, BIO-Complexity, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, coordinated mutations, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, fossils, humans, inner ear, intelligent design, milk, mutations, peer-reviewed literature, proteins, species, whales, Winston Ewert}

From Winston Ewert, New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model

_{Brian Miller
August 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Ewert's model represents a valuable tool in the developing theory of biological design, which should eventually supplant phylogenetic analyses. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, artifacts, books, chemical evolution, chemical reactions, complex specified information, Ernst Mayr, genes, Hubert Yockey, humans, information, information theory, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, letters, Marcello Barbieri, molecular machines, music, numbers, photos, pixels, proteins}

Barbieri’s Dilemma: Biological Information without Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 15, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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The problem is obvious: Information is by its nature immaterial. It is measured in bits, not kilograms or joules. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, animals, artificial intelligence, behaviors, calculus, David Berlinski, foraging, humans, intelligent design, navigation, Neural Networks, nucleic acids, optimization, pheromones, proteins, Science After Babel}

Can Algorithms Designed by Humans Catch Up with the Genius of Biological Systems?

_{Eric Cassell
August 1, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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While humans invented algorithms only within the last century, enabling the development of AI, animals exhibit behavioral algorithms that long predate humans. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, endoplasmic reticulum, evolution, Golgi apparatus, hexagons, humans, intelligent design, Latin, proteins, Science (journal), self-driving cars, vesicles, yeast}

Cell Vesicles Wear Sophisticated Coats, Defying Unguided Evolutionary Explanations

_{David Coppedge
July 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These coats, and the accessory proteins that build them, attach them to vesicles, and disassemble them, exhibit irreducible complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, acoustic waves, amino acids, biochemical systems, cells, Dave Farina, DNA, early Earth, energy production, equilibrium, error correction, hurricane, information processing, intelligent design, James Tour, Jeremy England, John Sutherland, life, materialism, molecular machines, proteins, RNA}