Tag: waiting-time problem

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), chimps, common ancestry, DNA, evolution, gap differences, genetic difference, genetic similarity, genome, human exceptionalism, human origins, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), protein-coding regions, Smithsonian Institution, waiting-time problem}

What’s the Best Explanation for Human-Chimp Genetic Differences?

_{Casey Luskin
May 23, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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We have broken a major story about a recently published study showing that the human and chimp genomes are 14.0 percent to 14.9 percent different. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Australopithecus, biologic institute, computer simulation, coordinated mutations, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Discovery Institute, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Fossil Friday (series), generations, gradualism, Indohyus, John Sanford, limits of evolution, macroevolution, Michael Behe, Michael Shermer, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, objections, Ola Hössjer, paleontology, population genetics, radiometric dating, recombination, Richard Dawkins, saltationism, species pair challenge, species pairs, The Edge of Evolution, tiktaalik, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations

_{Günter Bechly
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Paleontology

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As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bibliography, cancer, Casey Luskin, Dan Stern Cardinale, design detection, Discovery Institute, Engineering Research Group, function, human genome, human origins, ID 3.0, intelligent design, junk DNA, Research, researchers, Rutgers University, waiting-time problem}

Two Measures of Intelligent Design’s Advance: Peer-Reviewed Publications and ID 3.0

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s a talking point for evolutionists that in the past two decades, intelligent design has stalled. Hardly! Read More ›

Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Eric Anderson, evolution, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, monogenesis, mutations, parents, podcast, population genetics, protein evolution, proteins, waiting-time problem}

Protein Evolution, the Waiting-Time Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 30, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

1}

After being asked to evaluate the scientific case against Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger dove into population genetics. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, ecological niches, flukes, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genes, genetic changes, genetic coding, just-so stories, Late Cretaceous, marine reptiles, mosasaurs, mutations, North America, population genetics, sharks, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
April 28, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Paleontology

2}

The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, amniotes, amphibians, BIO-Complexity, birds, bony fish, Charles Darwin, chondrichthyans, cleavage, common ancestry, development, developmental biology, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, gastrulation, homology, intelligent design, lancelets, mammals, peer-reviewed literature, phylotypic stage, primates, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, teleosts, tissues, vertebrate embryos, waiting-time problem}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

_{Casey Luskin
March 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Arctic Ocean, biodiversity, Cartorhynchus, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Germany, Holzmaden, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Lower Jurassic, marine reptiles, Norway, Permian-Triassic extinction, population genetics, Posidonia shale, Stenopterygius quadricissus, Sweden, theists, Uppsala University, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
March 17, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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With increasing knowledge of the fossil record, the mainstream narrative is rendered more and more untenable and inconsistent with the empirical evidence. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, birds, Brazil, Crato limestones, dino-fuzz, dinosaurs, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, mutations, natural selection, random mutations, theropod, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: A Waiting Time Problem for Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
March 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

2}

Wherever you look in the history of life you stumble upon overwhelming evidence for design. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
January 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Zoology
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Cambrian Explosion, causal circularity, Center for Science and Culture, clams, coral, credentialism, doctorate, Drosophila melanogaster, evo-devo, evolution, genes, human origins, Illustra Media, intelligent design, invertebrates, jellyfish, Logan Gage, Nobel Prize, Nota Bene, PowerPoint, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Roman Catholic, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, waiting-time problem, worms}

The Evolution of Dr. Ann Gauger

_{Stephen Dilley
January 5, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Zoology

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The year was 2004. Dr. Gauger’s scientific credentials had caught the eye of Stephen Meyer and he had invited her to come talk with him. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Arabidopsis thaliana, cabbage, Darwin-skeptics, DNA, evolution, genome, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, mustard, mutation rate, mutations, Nature (journal), non-random mutation, proteins, random mutations, Research, thale cress, waiting-time problem}

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2022: “Non-Random” Mutations

_{Casey Luskin
December 25, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The study was able to directly measure mutations after they occurred in the plant but before mutations could have been affected by natural selection. Read More ›