21Jul 2023 by Post

Cell Vesicles Wear Sophisticated Coats, Defying Unguided Evolutionary Explanations

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These coats, and the accessory proteins that build them, attach them to vesicles, and disassemble them, exhibit irreducible complexity. Source
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27Nov 2021 by Post

Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

anti-malaria drugs, constructive evolution, Current Biology, devolution, Eric Anderson, Evolution, evolutionary tree, functionality, genetic information, ID The Future, introns, malaria, Medicine, Michael Behe, mutations, niche advantage, Plasmodium falciparum, Podcast, selective advantage, technical papers, Tree of Life, yeast
Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Source
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24Sep 2021 by Post

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

adaptive mechanisms, aluminum soils, analyzers, biology, biophysicists, cave fish, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, dog breeds, Engineering, engineering model, environmental conditions, evolutionary theory, gene regulatory network, gulls, hair, Harold Garner, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, John Fondon, Laridae, Life Sciences, maize, Midas cichlids, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, Ralf Sommer, sodium, temperature, yeast
Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Source
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