Tag: purifying selection

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
October 9, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, ATP, barnacles, Caenorhabditis elegans, Darwin's Black Box, ejaculatory reflex, evolution, fertilization, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jackson Wheat, Michael Behe, microtubules, middle piece, mitochondria, molecular machines, Nick Matzke, purifying selection, roundworm, sperm cells, sperm flagellum}

How NOT to Argue Against Irreducible Complexity

_{Jonathan McLatchie
October 9, 2023

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

9}

This roundworm produces non-flagellated sperm, though these sperm cells are amoeboid, meaning that they move by extending and retracting protrusions. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bleeding, blood-clotting cascade, coagulation, Darwin's Black Box, death, factor X, fibrin, fibrinogen, fish, irreducibly complex systems, mammals, Michael Behe, neo-Darwinian theory, pregnancy, prothrombin, purifying selection, Russell Doolittle, thrombin, thrombosis, vertebrates}

Why the Blood Clotting Cascade Challenges Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

The coagulation cascade cannot evolve unless there is simultaneously a mechanism in hand for controlling it. Both would have to arise at the same time. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, creationists, Darwinists, Developmental Cell, Dover trial, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, HBBP1, intelligent design, Kenneth Miller, Leakey Foundation, mutations, pseudogenes, purifying selection}

Blast from the Past: Eugenie Scott’s Failed Prediction on Pseudogenes

_{Casey Luskin
January 20, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Scott confidently asserts that because of mutations the beta-globin pseudogene “isn’t going to do diddly. It’s just going to sit there.” 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, GRNs, 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
April 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, BIO-Complexity, cancer, Casey Luskin, Darwin lobby, Darwinists, Dieter Braun, Douglas Axe, echolocation, functional information, gene duplication, genes, information, innovation, intelligent design, PLoS Genetics, purifying selection, RNA world, Science (journal), transposons, unguided processes}

Information from Nothing? Darwinists Must Believe It

_{Science and Culture
April 29, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

10}

Some evolutionists are becoming bolder in their assertions that information can arise from stochastic processes without intelligence. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 27, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, biological information, cell division, ciliates, conjugation, DNA, evolutionary biology, gene expression, genome, histone code, intelligent design, James Shapiro, meiosis, mitosis, Princeton University, purifying selection, RNA, sexual reproduction, University of Chicago}

The Wonders of Genomic Acrobatics: Ciliated Protozoa as a Case Study

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 27, 2019

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

Explaining this sort of phenomenon by slight, successive modification, as Darwin envisaged, seems problematic. Read More ›

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post

Date
October 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Arthur C. Clarke, awe, bats, Captain Dave Anderson, convergent evolution, Darwinian theory, dolphins, echolocation, genes, Germany, golf ball, Illustra Media, Living Waters, mammals, Michael Ruse, molecular evolution, mutations, natural selection, neutral evolution, ping-pong ball, purifying selection, Science Advances, Thomas Kuhn, toothed whales, whales, wonder}

Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again

_{Science and Culture
October 9, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life. Read More ›