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RNA sequences

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post

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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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, DNA, DNA transcription, ENCODE project, evolution, functionality, genetics, genome, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, junk RNA, Long Story Short, mammalian genome, mouse, native genome, Nature (journal), Nobel Prize, noise, noncoding RNAs, proteins, Puffin-D, RNA, RNA sequences, sequence conservation, sequences, Thomas Cech, yeast}

Garbage Goodbye: In Blow to Junk RNA, “Majority” of Transcription Not “Background Noise”

_{Casey Luskin
May 28, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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A 2026 paper reports on an AI trained on genomic data, including data from a 2024 paper, enabling it to predict when transcription would be initiated. Read More ›