Tag: sperm

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, African sleeping sickness, APOL1, Daniel Melamed, diseases, engineering, genes, genetic mutations, genomes, germline genome, haploid, heterozygotes, HindIII, homozygotes, Israel, malaria, MEMDS, mutation DNA, Mutation Enrichment followed by Maximum Depth Sequencing, mutation frequency, mutations, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, randomness, restriction enzyme, sperm, sperm DNA, Trypanosoma brucei, University of Haifa, wild-type DNA}

Could Genetic Mutations Be Non-Random? New Evidence for Mutational Bias

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 28, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

4}

The researchers examined the emergence of a mutation in the human APOL1 gene that confers protection from African sleeping sickness. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 18, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Black Box, egg, engineering, evolution, evolutionary theory, fertilization, forethought, goal, human reproduction, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, natural selection, podcast, purpose, seminal fluid, sexual reproduction, sperm, sperm capacitation}

Sexual Reproduction: Engineered for Success

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 18, 2026

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

I continue a three-part discussion with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie on why sex is the queen of problems for evolutionary theory. Read More ›

Ancient footprint embedded in earth, showing detail of toes and sole

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 14, 2025

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, arithmetic, DNA, egg cells, footprints, Homo sapiens, modern humans, Neanderthals, New Scientist, PIEZO1, sperm, Switzerland, University of Seville, University of Zurich}

The Neanderthal Story Keeps Evolving (Even if Nothing Else Does)

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 14, 2025

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

5}

The University of Seville announces that Neanderthal footprints found along Portugal’s Algarve coast have led to unexpected insights about Neanderthal culture. Read More ›

Futuristic holographic baby in doctor's hand: exploring virtual reality and medical technology

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, bioethics, Brave New World, cells, children, China, CRISPR, eggs, embryos, gestational carriers, government, men, parents, regulation, reproduction, skin cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, sperm, women}

Human Reproduction Is Becoming Human Manufacture

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

Making eggs out of skin cells is just the latest example of an accelerating reproductive anarchy that is changing our very culture. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
May 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, complexity, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary (series), double helix, egg, embryo, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, intelligent design, Leonardo da Vinci, medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

_{Geoffrey Simmons
May 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University}

The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine, Reproductive Science

8}

A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 20, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, egg, evolutionary theory, foresight, forethought, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, podcast, sexual reproduction, sperm}

Sex: Engineered for Success

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 20, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, calcium ions, cervix, DNA, egg cell, fertilization, flagellum, foresight, Harvard University, human reproduction, infant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, middle piece, mitochondria, ovum, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cells, teleology, uterus, zygote}

No. 9 Story of 2023: Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 24, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

8}

Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
July 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, carpenter, cells, chemical reactions, cytoplasm, egg, enzymes, function, glucose, hammer, insulin, life, materialism, materialists, natural selection, nature, oxygen, purpose, randomness, science of purpose, scientists, sperm, structure, teleology, telos}

Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, chimpanzees, colonialism, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, Joseph Stalin, Olufemi Oluniyi, podcast, Social Darwinism, sperm}

When Darwinism Came to Africa, Horrors Ensued

_{Science and Culture
February 27, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

1}

Olufemi Oluniyi tells the story of Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, who, guided by Social Darwinism, “sought to produce a race of super-soldiers for Stalin’s army.” Read More ›