18Jul 2025 by Post

McLatchie Explains Design Implications of DNA Replication

Allan CP, biology, DNA, DNA replication, Evolution, history of life, hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, life, natural selection, primitive, sophistication, students, The Science Dilemma, unguided evolution, __featured2
Dr. McClatchie notes its “primitive” nature — meaning, not a lack of sophistication (quite the opposite!) but that life at the most basic level depends on it. Source
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21Jan 2025 by Post

Intelligent Design in the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

cell cycle, cell's, Charles Darwin, eukaryotes, eukaryotic cell cycle, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, kinetochores, Latin, microtubules, mitosis, modifications, On the Origin of Species, prokaryotes, unguided evolution
An inspection of the components and processes in eukaryotic cell division demonstrates just one of many such systems that Invalidate Mr. Darwin’s theory. Source
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29Nov 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

academia, adults, amber, antennae, astrology, Basilosaurus, beetles, Carabidae, catching cage, Collembola, Dorudon, Evolution, Fossil Friday (series), Indohyus, K/Pg impact event, larvae, living fossils, Loricera, maxillae, Myanmar, Neo-Darwinism, Pakicetus, paleontology, psychoanalysis, unguided evolution, Wired
Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Source
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20Sep 2024 by Post

Challenges to the Evolutionary Origins of the Glycolytic Pathway

adenosine triphosphate, amino acids, ATP, biochemical pathway, causal circularity, cellular respiration, citric acid cycle, Complexity, condensation reaction, electron transport chain, Engineering, enzymes, Evolution, fructose, glycolysis, glycolytic pathway, hexokinase, hinge, Intelligent Design, Keith Webster, mind, oxidative phosphorylation, oxygen, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate, unguided evolution, universal common ancestor, water
The complexity and engineering sophistication comport much better with the hypothesis of design. Source
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28Jun 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

Big Bang, body plan, coordinated mutations, cosmology, Evolution, evolutionary clock, Fossil Friday, Intelligent Design, lizards, Najash rionegrina, paleontology, Patagoniav, population genetics, Singularity, snakes, Stony Brook University, unguided evolution, University of Michigan
The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.” Source
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01May 2024 by Post

Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

biology, Casey Luskin, cooperative effects, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, Evolution, Extended Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Lamarckian evolution, New Synthesis, origin of life, panspermia, Peter Corning, physics, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, retroactive admission of ignorance, selective pressures, symbiosis, synergism hypothesis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia
I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Source
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02Sep 2023 by Post

An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

bacteria, biology, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, Darwin’s God, Dennis Venema, E. coli, Evolution, evolutionary theory, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, Podcast, protein-protein binding, Ray Bohlin, scientists, The Edge of Evolution, unguided evolution, vertebrate immune system
“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Source
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21Jul 2022 by Post

How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA”

biology, birds, brain, California octopus, clams, common octopus, genome, intelligence, Intelligent Design, invertebrates, jumping genes, Junk DNA, Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements, mammals, marine invertebrates, Neuroscience & Mind, octopuses, oysters, transposons, unguided evolution
Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes. Source
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26Jul 2021 by Post

Did Religion Evolve, or Was It Designed, to Foster Cooperation?

Aboriginal Australians, Agricultural Revolution, Catholics, Crusades, dead ends, designer, Faith & Science, Fiction, group cohesion, hospital, Human Origins, Jesus, myths, religion, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, selfish genes, shared beliefs, strangers, unguided evolution, Yuval Noah Harari
Harari’s assurance about building group cohesion is simplistic and woefully insufficient to account for common characteristics of religion. Source
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