Tag: transposable elements

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, Christianity, David Klinghoffer, DNA, evolution, genes, genetic instructions, geneticists, genome, Georg Cantor, immaterial genome, infinite sets, intelligent design, Judaism, leather shoes, Life Itself, material genome, materialism, non-coding DNA, pearls, Plato, proteins, recombination, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, set theory, sneakers, transposable elements, tsimtsum}

The Immaterial Genome: Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

_{Ann Gauger
May 12, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Daniel Stern Cardinale, debates, DNA, dog, Dr. Dan, embryogenesis, embryonic stem cells, enzymes, euchromatin, evolution, function, genome, Genome Biology, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, LINE-1 elements, macaque, methylation, miRNAs, mouse, Nature (journal), non-coding RNAs, peer-reviewed literature, repetitive elements, Rutgers University, Science (journal), transposable elements}

From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

_{Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Sternberg, and Casey Luskin
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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On May 2, Casey Luskin had an online debate with Professor Daniel Stern Cardinale, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 29, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Scientist, biologists, Creation Myths, Dan Graur, Dan Stern Cardinale, DNA, ENCODE, evolution, Ewan Birney, functionality, genome, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, junk RNA, Laurence Moran, Long Story Short, Nature (journal), repetitive DNA, Richard Dawkins, Rutgers University, species, transposable elements, YouTubers}

“Creation Myths” Misquotes and Misrepresents Junk DNA Video

_{Casey Luskin
March 29, 2024

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Our video backs up what it says with clear quotes and references. We’ve provided more documentation here. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, addiction, alleles, anomalies, Barbara McClintock, BioEssays, circadian rhythms, cognition, DNA, enhancers, epigenetic code, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, evolution, genes, genomes, human genome, intelligence, intelligent design, introns, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, methylation, molecular biology, mRNAs, neutral evolution, paradigm shift, personality, retroviruses, Ribosome, Scientific American, Short Tandem Repeats, Thomas Kuhn, transposable elements, transposons}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, Australia, bioRxiv, Borgs, fungi, genes, genomes, horizontal gene transfer, information, jumping genes, microbes, Neo-Darwinism, PNAS, prokaryotes, selfish genes, SETI, Star Trek, Starships, Sweden, transposable elements, transposons, Uppsala University}

Starship Enterprise: Fungal Transposons Boldly Go

_{David Coppedge
April 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Newly recognized large transposable elements in fungi dubbed Starships may not be selfish after all. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aging, cancer, Casey Luskin, Current Biology, Endogenous retroviruses, function, gene expression, genomics, Gil McVean, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, lymphocytes, PLOS Biology, PNAS, transposable elements, UC Santa Cruz, zebrafish}

In “Junk DNA,” Here Are Benefits of Seeking Function

_{David Coppedge
February 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

You wouldn’t toss out all the punctuation in a book as “junk ABC” now, would you? Punctuation has a function. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 31, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, centromeres, DNA, evolution, evolutionary processes, gene expression, Genome Research, human genome, intelligent design, Joe Felsenstein, John Avise, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nicholas Matzke, nucleic acids, repetitive elements, researchers, RNA, telomeres, transposable elements}

Researchers: What’s Evolutionary Debris to You Is Unexplored Territory to Us

_{Science and Culture
March 31, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

From a new, open-access article, “Implications of the first complete human genome assembly.” Read More ›

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post

Date
February 17, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Christie Wilcox, Cinderella, disease, Drosophila, ENCODE, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, junk DNA, Michael Denton, myelin, natural selection, parasites, Paul Nelson, retrotransposons, retroviruses, symbionts, The Scientist, transposable elements, transposons}

Cinderella Story? Transposons Gain New Respect

_{Science and Culture
February 17, 2022

Biochemistry, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

8}

Junk DNA has been getting redress for decades of ignominy. Now, retrotransposons and transposable elements may be next in line for a better reputation. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 4, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body size, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Drosophila, eggs, embryo, fruit flies, gravity well, insect wings, intelligent design, macromutations, metabolism, natural genetic engineering, overpopulation, phenotype, phenotypic plasticity, stochasticity, transposable elements}

Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
October 4, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __k-review, axioms, Carmen Sapienza, chromosomes, DNA, Drosophila melanogaster, euchromatin, Francis Crick, fruit flies, heterochromatin, junk DNA, Leslie Orgel, nucleus, organism, phenotype, repetitive sequences, Richard Dawkins, RNA, The Selfish Gene, transposable elements, W. Ford Doolittle, Y chromosome}

The “Why” of the Fly “Y”: Reflections on “Junk” DNA

_{Richard Sternberg
April 3, 2020

Evolution, Genetics

7}

Let us give some thought to the Y chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, that engaging fly which is the bond-servant of genetics. Read More ›