Tag: transposons

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", biology, cells, Chance & Necessity, CRISPRs, Daniel Witt, Evolution on Purpose, final cause, foxes, hares, integrons, intelligent design, internal regulatory control networks, James Shapiro, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, materialist paradigm, miracles, Modern Synthesis, molecules, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, organisms, organs, Peter Corning, purpose, retroposons, science of purpose, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, transposons}

From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Daniel Stern Cardinale, debate, debris, DNA, Endogenous retroviruses, evolution, evolutionary history, function, genome, human genome, intelligent design, introns, junk DNA, non sequitur, non-coding DNA, peer-reviewed, persistent scientific errors, pseudogenes, repetitive DNA, RNA, Rutgers University, satellite DNA, The NonSequitur Show, transposons}

Here’s a Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting) List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA

_{Richard Sternberg, Jonathan McLatchie, and Casey Luskin
May 1, 2024

Evolution, Genetics

143}

The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function. 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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post

Date
July 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birds, brain, clams, genome, intelligence, intelligent design, invertebrates, jumping genes, junk DNA, Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements, mammals, marine invertebrates, octopuses, oysters, transposons, unguided evolution}

How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA”

_{Science and Culture
July 21, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes. 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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post

Date
June 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, Big Data, Carl Woese, Cédric Blais, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Current Biology, Darwinian theory, eukarya, genomics, hybridization, intelligent design, introgression, John M. Archibald, jumping genes, lateral gene transfer, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, taxonomy, Texas, transposons, Tree of Life}

Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
June 1, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration. Read More ›

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post

Date
April 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, BIO-Complexity, cancer, Casey Luskin, Darwin lobby, Darwinists, Dieter Braun, Douglas Axe, echolocation, functional information, gene duplication, genes, information, innovation, intelligent design, PLoS Genetics, purifying selection, RNA world, Science (journal), transposons, unguided processes}

Information from Nothing? Darwinists Must Believe It

_{Science and Culture
April 29, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

10}

Some evolutionists are becoming bolder in their assertions that information can arise from stochastic processes without intelligence. Read More ›

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post

Date
July 10, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Arabidopsis, Barbara McClintock, Cell (journal), coding, David Klinghoffer, Developmental Cell, ENCODE, epigenetics, genes, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Kevin Laland, proteins, pseudogenes, RNA, Science (journal), The Myth of Junk DNA, transposons, UC San Francisco}

As Research Advances, Debunking “Junk DNA” Is Almost Trendy

_{Science and Culture
July 10, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Why not treat the whole genome as functional? This is a radical concept, but perhaps the focus on genes distorts our understanding. Read More ›

Bladderwort underwater with soft sunlight illuminating delicate leaves

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 24, 2015

Categories
Botany
Genetics
Tagged
, __nedited, ENCODE, eukaryotes, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, microbiology, peer review, peer-reviewed, research idea, transposons, Utricularia, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Peer-Reviewed Article on Transposable Elements Cites “Irreducible Complexity” and Other “Teleologic” Factors

_{Casey Luskin
December 24, 2015

Botany, Genetics

4}

Plant geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard L�nnig argues that irreducibly complex structures may defy explanation by TEs or other Darwinian factors. Read More ›