Tag: Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
April 28, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, brewer’s yeast, Complex III, complexity, electrochemistry, electrons, elegance, Energy, engineers, flavin adenine dinucleotide, intelligent agent, mitochondrial membrane, mitochondrial respiratory chain, molecular machines, natural selection, organic chemistry, oxygen, protons, quantum tunneling, reverse-engineering, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, semiquinone, ubiquinol}

The Nanoscale Engineering of Complex III

_{Emily Reeves
April 28, 2026

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If I put on my reverse-engineering hat, this enzyme looks like the work of a designer who deeply understood electrochemistry and quantum tunneling. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, biologists, Darwin Devolves, devolution, DNA, E. coli, evolution, hydrogen peroxide, mutations, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Richard Lenski, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, University of Michigan}

Helpful Devolutionary Mutations Are Rapid and Unavoidable: Paper Reinforces Darwin Devolves

_{Michael Behe
March 5, 2020

Evolution, Life Sciences

7}

There is simply no way for any unguided, unintelligent account of the unfolding of life to avoid the bane of helpful degradative mutations. Read More ›

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Date
April 26, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Artificial Selection, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's House of Cards, Darwinism, Escherichia coli, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, mind, mutations, natural selection, nature, On the Origin of Species, organisms, PLOS Biology, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Tom Bethell, yeast}

Fake Darwinism in an International Test of Experimental Evolution

_{Science & Culture
April 26, 2019

Evolution

8}

It’s fine to search through random results for an outcome you’re aiming for. Just don’t call it Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 24, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, cells, Creative Evolution, cytoplasm, function, intelligent design, introns, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, mRNA, Nature (journal), Oxford University Press, predictions, proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, splicing, The Myth of Junk DNA, W. Ford Doolittle}

As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional

_{Casey Luskin
January 24, 2019

Intelligent Design

6}

ID proponents have long predicted that functions would be uncovered for such non-coding DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 21, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", evolution, genome, John Mattick, junk DNA, MIT, molecular biology, mRNAs, Nature (journal), RNA, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Scientific American, splicing}

“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 21, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm. Read More ›