Tag: transcription

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
July 14, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bacillus subtilis, biology, chromosome, ComK, competence, ComS, ComX, crowdsourcing, CSF, developmental state, DNA, DNA expression, environment, exogenous DNA, genes, genetic material, genome, information, intelligent design, mRNA, nutrient status, pheromone, population signals, promoters, regulation, regulatory feedback, Sigma-H, sporulation, Theodosius Dobzhansky, transcription, xenogenic DNA}

Crowdsourcing DNA: Sophisticated Biological Information Processing

_{Emily Reeves
July 14, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

8}

To adapt the words of Theodosius Dobzhansky, I’m persuaded that nothing in biology makes sense except in light of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
July 13, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AbrB, antibiotics, autoregulation, Bacillus subtilis, bacteria, biology, cassettes, cell fate, chemotaxis, CodY, ComK, competence, crowdsourcing, DegU, dense overlapping regulons, DNA, Energy, environmental conditions, exponential growth, feed-forward loops, gene expression, gene regulatory network, graduate school, housekeeping, intelligent design, isoleucine, leucine, metabolic pathways, metabolism, microorganisms, principal investigator, Rok, Sigma-H, single input modules, sporulation, stress, superintellect, transcription, valine, virulence}

To Crowdsource DNA, or Not to Crowdsource DNA: A Microbe’s Decision Pathway

_{Emily Reeves
July 13, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

10}

These are the same type of understandable and logical computation circuits that humans design. What can we learn from observing this similarity? Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
April 13, 2026

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, aliens, amnesia, Andy Weir, astrophage, ATP, computer programmers, Daniel Pemberton, Drew Goddard, Eridians, Eva Stratt, eyes, Goldilocks Zone, hearing, Hollywood, intelligence, James Ortiz, life-forms, microphone, mitochondria, mutations, organelles, origin of life, panspermia, parasites, Powers of Ten, Project Hail Mary, puppeteering, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Rocky, Ryan Gosling, Ryland Grace, science fiction, sonar, space pods, stars, survival of the fittest, The Martian, The Story of Everything, transcription, water}

Project Hail Mary Can’t Outrun the God Hypothesis

_{Bethel McGrew
April 13, 2026

Biology, Origin of Life

6}

How could something with a structure this complicated have evolved twice? Ryland Grace thinks it couldn’t have. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Australopithecus, bonobos, Cell Genomics, cells, chimps, Chromosomal Fusion, chromosomes, functional advantage, fusion site, genes, genome, gorillas, human chromosomal fusion, human chromosome 2, human tissues, humans, incomplete lineage sorting, neural development, phylogenetic conflicts, phylogenetic incongruity, phylogenetic tree, phylogeny, speciation, transcription}

Supposed Fusion Site Contains Expressed Genes, Likely Influences Neural Development

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

8}

Human chromosomal fusion has often been cited as strong evidence supporting human-ape common ancestry. It’s not. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 30, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Arginine, biosynthesis, blind processes, design logic, DNA, engineering, enzymes, evolution, genes, histidine, homology, intelligent design, mRNA, operons, prokaryotes, recurring design logic, regulation, Ribosome, RNA polymerase, transcription, translation, tryptophan, unguided processes}

Recurring Design Logic in Attenuation Mechanisms

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 30, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Despite the striking parallels between these systems in terms of the design logic, these attenuation systems are not evolutionarily related to one another. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alexander T. Englert, Apostle Paul, biology, creator, David Klinghoffer, DNA, evolution, Genesis, genome, Günter Bechly, incompleteness theorem, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Kurt Gödel, naturalism, paleontologists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Roger Penrose, software, topology, transcription, unguided processes, University of Chicago}

Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

_{Eric Hedin
May 27, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

6}

Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, ATP, Brian Miller, Eric Anderson, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, metabolic pathways, origin of life, PNAS, podcast, proteins, Stephen Meyer, transcription, translation}

Brian Miller: Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Theories

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

3}

Is origin of life research going round in circles, like the proverbial snake in pursuit of its own tail? Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Ann Gauger, bias, causal circularity, cells, circular reasoning, codons, common ancestor, cysteine, DNA, genetic code, helicase, histidine, mind, natural processes, nucleotides, Phys.org, PNAS, proteins, replication, RNA world, topoisomerase, transcription, translation}

Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code

_{Brian Miller
January 27, 2025

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 28, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, angiosperms, biosphere, cell membrane, combustion, dispositionalism, intentionality, migration, ozone, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Thomas Aquinas, transcription, Unmoved Mover}

Intentionality in Living Systems: What Does It Mean?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 28, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Philosophy

6}

One historically dominant position on intentionality has been the Brentano thesis, proffered by 19th-century German philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioEssays, body plans, cancer, chimpanzees, diseases, DNA, evolution, evolutionary biologists, function, functionality, gene expression, genes, humans, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk RNA, lncRNAs, molecular biologists, mRNAs, mutations, natural selection, protein translation, proteins, proteome, repetitive DNA, ribozymes, species, transcription}

Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique. Read More ›