Tag: viruses

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, citrate, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, DNA, DNA replication, DNA replisome, Escherichia coli, evolution, generation turnover time, genome duplication, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, lizards, Michael Behe, multicellularity, mutation rates, mutations, natural selection, neutral mutations, Paramecium tetraurelia, placenta, population size, retrovirus, Richard Lenski, Rutgers University, Scott Minnich, tetherin, tetherin antagonism, type III secretion system, viruses, YouTube channels}

Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 6, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
December 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cars, classes, color, CRISPR, DNA, evolution, genome, intelligent design, Nature Microbiology, phylogenetic trees, phylogeny, proteins, shape, t-shirts, thread, viruses}

CRISPR’s Long Tail of Wonder: Too Many Solutions, Too Little Time

_{Emily Reeves
December 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The implication: such a significant amount of diversity raises a challenge for unguided evolutionary mechanisms. Read More ›

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Author
Giuseppe Sermonti

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Zoology
Tagged
, biology, birds, eggs, evolution, fish, fleas, Francesco Redi, Giuseppe Sermonti, life, meat, microbes, Nobel Prize, reptiles, spontaneous generation, viruses, worms}

Francesco Redi and the Founding of Modern Biology

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
November 17, 2025

Biology, Zoology

4}

Why was it so important that the flea should have come out of an egg and not simply from filth? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, accountability, bureaucrats, children, Congress, COVID-19, deaths, Declaration of Independence, Democrats, English, experts, Hoover Institution, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, leadership, liberty, lockdowns, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Republicans, Scott Atlas, Stanford University, vaccine, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wall Street Journal, Washington DC, Washington State, Wesley J. Smith}

Let’s Not Forget About That Covid Commission

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

5}

When speaking of the disaster that began to unfold in 2020, do you refer to it as the Covid “pandemic” or the Covid “lockdowns and vaccine mandates”? Read More ›

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Date
February 3, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, AIDS, americans, Anthony Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19, herd immunity, hospitalizations, immunology, infection, Joe Biden, Maryland, pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, truth, vaccine, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wesley J. Smith}

In Covid Response, Government Did Not Trust the People with Information

_{Science and Culture
February 3, 2025

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

7}

Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, archaea, ATP, bacteria, complexity, ecosystem, evolution, genes, genome, Immune System, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, metabolism, molecular biology, Nature Ecology & Evolution, prokaryotes, protein-coding genes, Science (journal), viruses, Washington Post}

“That Is a Lot of Evolution”: Study Finds LUCA Required 2,600 Genes

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Technology

5}

One scientist commented, “LUCA was a very complex cell, with a genome similar to modern bacteria." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 24, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, anthropomorphism, Carl Zimmer, cheating, consciousness, cooperation, Quanta, virologists, viruses, Washington University}

Sociovirologists Say Viruses Can Cheat, Cooperate

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 24, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine

5}

What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in? Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, civilization, culture, film, humans, intelligence, knowledge, movies, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, pandemic, tyranny, universe, viruses}

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

_{Peter Biles
May 11, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

5}

“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Darwin’s Bluff, evolution, Foresight (book), Howard Hughes Medical Institute, infection, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinesin, molecular machines, Mother Nature, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Robert Shedinger, viruses, Yale University}

Newly Discovered War Machines in the Immune System

_{David Coppedge
March 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

A newly discovered defense against pathogens involves armor and bullets that render an attacker immobile and self-destructing. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, antibiotics, COVID-19, Douglas Axe, genetic material, genomes, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mortality, mutations, pandemic, population, RNA, Stephen Meyer, viruses, Winston Ewert}

Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

_{Emily Reeves
October 3, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

7}

Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19. Read More ›