Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

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, __featured1
I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Source
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In Covid Response, Government Did Not Trust the People with Information

AIDS, americans, Anthony Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coronaviruses, COVID-19, free speech, herd immunity, hospitalizations, immunology, infection, Joe Biden, Larry Hogan, Maryland, Medicine, pandemic, paternalism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, truth, vaccine, Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wesley J. Smith, White House Coronavirus Task Force
Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith. Source
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Newly Discovered War Machines in the Immune System

ATP synthase motor, bacteria, bacterial cell wall, biology, body bag, caspase-4, Darwin’s Bluff, dimers, Evolution, Foresight (book), GBP1 proteins, guanylate binding proteins, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, immune proteins, infection, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, John MacMicking, kinesin, mere abstract, molecular machines, Mother Nature, natural selection, Origin of Species, pathogen, Robert Shedinger, terrorist, viruses, Yale University
A newly discovered defense against pathogens involves armor and bullets that render an attacker immobile and self-destructing. Source
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What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism

artificial wombs, biological information, Charles Darwin, Colossal Biosciences, dodo, elephant, embryos, Evolution, Financial Times, gene editing, George Church, ghost lineages, horizontal gene transfer, inheritance trees, Intelligent Design, pig organs, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, Siberia, Tasmanian tiger, Texas, viruses, woolly mammoth
Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life's history. Source
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Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria

alpha-proteobacterium, bacteriophage, BioEssays, Biological Reviews, biology, cellular life, censorship, cytoplasm, Dave Speijer, domain, endosymbiotic hypothesis, eukarya, eukaryogenesis, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, free speech, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Linnaean taxonomy, mitochondria, nucleic acid, protein, replicon, viruses
The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal. Source
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Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

animal rights, animals, bacteria, Climate News, Congress, courts, Culture & Ethics, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, germs, habeas corpus, human exceptionalism, individual animals, insects, Laws, Life Sciences, nature right, New York State, plants, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water
Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Source
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Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

archaea, bacteria, biogeography, biology, Biology Direct, cell's, discontinuity, Douglas Theobald, embryology, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, Evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, Intelligent Design, mathematics, mechanisms of evolution, paleontology, phyla, protein folds, rafting, Theistic Evolution (book), transitional forms, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry, viruses
For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Source
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