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20Aug 2023 by Post

A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning

academic politics, Chemistry, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, DNA, Evolution, genes, genetic code, information, Intelligent Design, Marcello Barbieri, materialism, Meaning, natural selection, paradigm, physics, private truth, public truth, teleology, University of Ferrara

The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide. Source

15Aug 2023 by Post

Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

16S rRNA, bacteria, Carl Woese, conservation of function, conservation of genes, Evolution, function, functional synonyms, genes, Genome Biology, genomes, Intelligent Design, last bacterial common ancestor, LCBA, lorry, Orthodoxy, orthologous group, quiz, Tree of Life, truck

Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Source

17May 2023 by Post

The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer: Intelligent Design

astronomers, astronomy, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dawkins Test, epicycles, Evolution, Evolution News, family tree, genes, geocentric model, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, phylogenomics, Physics, Earth & Space, Richard Dawkins, solar system, The Greatest Show on Earth, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry

Dr. Luskin details the various ways that the rapidly developing field of phylogenomics is uncovering data that powerfully fits the ID model of life’s history. Source

28Apr 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

Darwinism, ecological niches, Evolution, flukes, Fossil Friday, fossil record, genes, genetic changes, genetic coding, just-so stories, Late Cretaceous, legends, marine reptiles, mathematics, mosasaurs, mutations, North America, paleontology, Plesioplatecarpus planifroms, population genetics, sea serpents, sharks, waiting-time problem

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

26Apr 2023 by Post

Now, with Starships, Evolutionary Origins Become Still More Difficult

biology, David Coppedge, Evolution, Evolution News, gene transposon packages, genes, horizontal gene transport, hybridization, Intelligent Design, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, origins, physics, sex, species, Star Trek, Starships, Stephen Barr, symmetry, universal common descent

So it appears that self-contained gene transposon "packages" permit transfer of genes from one species to another Source

02Apr 2023 by Post

Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution

breaking things, citrate, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, flasks, genes, genetic information, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, mutations, niche advantages, novelty, oxygen, Podcast

Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State. Source

02Mar 2023 by Post

Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?

African Savannah, art, behavior, cathedrals, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian evolution, David Barash, environment of evolutionary adaptedness, evo psych, Evolution, evolutionary psychologists, evolutionary psychology, genes, Henry Schlinger, Human Origins, humans, Intelligent Design, Judith Eve Lipton, just-so stories, Marc Hauser, Moon, museums, music, Oskar Schindler, Philip Skell, Pleistocene, Richard Dawkins, Subrena Smith, survival machines, The Descent of Man, Victorian England

“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Source

08Feb 2023 by Post