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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

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

25Jul 2023 by Post

Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma

amino acids, bacteria, bacterial cell division, bacterial cell wall, binary fission, biology, cell wall, cleavage, Evolution, foresight, glycosyltransferases, Gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Mycoplasma, natural selection, nisin, osmotic pressure, penicillin, penicillin-binding proteins, pentapeptide, peptides, peptidoglycan, peptidoglycan precursors, re-synthesis, self-replication, transpeptidases

Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate. Source

03Jun 2023 by Post

Engineering and Evolution in the Microbial World

animals, Azusa Pacific University, bacteria, biology, Carolyn Hovde, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dustin Van Hofwegen, E. coli, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Journal of Bacteriology, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Neo-Darwinism, plants, Podcast, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho

This year’s Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS) is going on right now, exploring design principles at work in living things. Source

29Mar 2023 by Post

Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

Africa, bacteria, Biomimetics, birds, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinists, drone, Evolution, evolutionary pressure, human exceptionalism, human history, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, lawyers, Mark Rober, Michael Behe, NASA, Olufemi Oluniyi, owls, personification, pupfish, Rwanda, science, shopping, Social Darwinism, vitalism, Zipline

An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw. Source

14Dec 2022 by Post

A Miraculous Existence

A Big Bang in a Little Room, Adolf Hitler, advanced life, aliens, astronomers, Atheism, atheists, bacteria, Bible, capillary action, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), cosmic microwave background radiation, Creation, deaths, divine action, faith, Faith & Science, galaxies, Goldilocks, history, human genome, hydrogen, Ivy League, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, miracles, New England Patriots, Physics, Earth & Space, Super Bowl, surface tension, theoretical physics, touchdown, universe, wackiness, Zeeya Merali

Zeeya Merali asks a good question: If God desired to send us a message, how would He do it? Source

13Dec 2022 by Post

Jerry Coyne — An Evolutionist and His Ideology

bacteria, Bernard Kettlewell, Biston betularia, Christmas Eve, courage, creationists, Evolution, Icons of Evolution, industrial melanism, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Judith Hooper, melanism, Melanism: Evolution in Action, Michael Majerus, natural selection, Nature (journal), Of Moths and Men, peppered moth, Santa Claus, scientific evidence, textbooks, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Why Evolution Is True

At least some others have the courage to stand for what they believe even in the face of potential criticism. Source

16Nov 2022 by Post

Michael Behe, Ever Patient, Meets Atheist YouTuber TJump

atheists, bacteria, Evolution, Hotel California, Intelligent Design, Jews, La-Z-Boy, Long Term Evolution Experiment, marijuana, Michael Behe, polar bears, Professor Dave, Richard Lenski, TJump, YouTube videos, YouTubers

As Behe and TJump discuss Lenski’s experiment, polar bears, and other matters, the commenters are floating in their own strange parallel reality. Source

24Oct 2022 by Post

Reeves: A Rising Star Describes a Biological Revolution

bacteria, biochemistry, biology, computer scientist, emergent properties, Emily Reeves, engineers, Evolution, foresight, hierarchical integration, integration, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jim Esch, materialism, purpose, Reductionism, science, signaling networks, silicon, Systems Biology, Technology

“Engineers more easily recognize impressive design because they have actually tied to build stuff.” Source

20Sep 2022 by Post

Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

bacteria, bioRxiv, Ceratopteris, co-evolution, convergence, Current Biology, DNA, Doug Soltis, Duke University, Evolution, ferns, Florida Museum of Natural History, Foresight (book), gene flow, heredity, horizontal gene transfer, human evolution, Intelligent Design, introgression, kleptomania, Lingchong You, Neanderthals, North Carolina State University, plants, University of Tübingen

Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. Source

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