Tag: Scientific Reports

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, biochemistry, biochemists, Biola University, biomolecules, biosphere, cancer, curcumin, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, diseases, drugs, flavonoids, humans, intelligent design, Karl Krueger, leaf extract, lutein, lycopene, Magnolia alba, medicine, Michael Behe, nanoparticles, photocatalytic, polyphenols, red grapefruit, Research, Richard Gunasekera, Scientific Reports, side effects, tomato, Tree of Life}

Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

_{Casey Luskin
October 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 14, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Geology
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, aliens, Archean Eon, atmosphere, continents, Drake equation, Enceladus, extraterrestrial intelligence, Fermi paradox, habitability, intelligent design, magnetic field, Mars, Nautilus, Neoproterozoic, oceans, plate tectonics, Scientific Reports, solar system, The Privileged Planet, Titan}

Study: Geological Habitability Parameters Imply Earth is Special and Advanced Life Extremely Rare

_{Casey Luskin
August 14, 2024

Fine-tuning, Geology, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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One thing that is likely to get some pushback is the study’s claim that modern-style plate tectonics on Earth did not commence until the Neoproterozoic. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Casey Luskin, DNA, early Earth, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Gerald Joyce, information sequence problem, intelligent design, nucleotides, prebiotic conditions, proteins, RNA, RNA world, Robert Shapiro, Scientific Reports, Stanley Miller, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley}

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 28, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, abstraction, crying, Dogs, emotions, joy, pain, pets, Research, Scientific Reports, Smithsonian Magazine, tears, The Scientist}

Study: Dogs Cry for Joy as Well as Pain

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 28, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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That shouldn’t really be too surprising because the fact that humans and dogs can share emotions is part of what forms bonds between us. Read More ›

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Date
August 6, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, biomineralization, Charles Darwin, evolution, Germany, intelligent design, Japan, mother-of-pearl, nacre, Natural History Museum, oysters, pearls, PNAS, Scientific Reports, sea urchins, spicules}

By Design — How Pearls Get Their Luster

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August 6, 2021

Intelligent Design

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The highly valued optical properties of pearls come from sophisticated processes of biomineralization involving proteins and crystals. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 18, 2021

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", amino acids, bioengineering, carbon, copper, elements, Emily Reeves, enzymes, Erika DeBenedictis, heavy metals, hydrogen, intelligent design, iron, junk DNA, materialism, metalloenzymes, metals, nickel, nitrogen, oxygen, proteins, ribozymes, RNA, Scientific Reports, sulfur, zinc}

Do Proteins Lack Metals, Reflecting Poor Design?

_{Casey Luskin
June 18, 2021

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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According to Erika DeBenedictis, “one of the big limitations of biology are the basic building blocks themselves.” Read More ›

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Date
October 18, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, behavior, brain, Darwinism, decisions, dualism, information, intelligent design, intuition, just-so stories, memory, mind, planning, Scientific Reports, self, Star Trek, stimuli, thoughts}

Remember This: Memory Requires Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
October 18, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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The brain assists the organization and recall of thoughts by segmenting them and associating them with stimuli. But who is doing the thinking? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, camera eye, Commentary, computer model, Dan-Eric Nilsson, David Berlinski, England, epithelial tissue, evolution, eyes, natural selection, nature, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Scientific Reports, Suzanne Pelger, Sweden, Zombie Science (book)}

Eyes in a Twinkling?

_{Jonathan Wells
May 1, 2018

Evolution

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In 1991, Richard Dawkins gave a lecture arguing that natural selection can produce complex and seemingly improbable features by an accumulation of small, incremental steps. Read More ›

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Date
March 26, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, basketball, bone, brain, Canada, collagen, design constraint, eyes, Howard Glicksman, Irreducible Complexity, macroscale, molecular machines, Nanoscale, piano, running, Scientific Reports, tendons, tissue, walking}

Tendons Are Irreducibly Complex

_{Science and Culture
March 26, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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A simple tissue we take for granted turns out to represent another example of irreducible complexity in the human body. Read More ›