28Feb 2026 by Post

Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

"God of the gaps", abiogenesis, bacterial flagella, biochemists, bioinformatics, debates, demarcation criteria, DNA, Douglas Axe, Evolution, falsifiability, glacial-interglacial cycles, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, Keith Fox, Michael Behe, Peter S. Williams, philosophers, predictions, protein folds, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, Tim McGrew, type III secretion system, Unbelievable?
With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Source
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13Nov 2024 by Post

ORFanID: An Online Search Engine for Identifying Orfan Genes

bacteria, bioinformatics, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, Discovery Institute, DNA, E. coli, Evolution, evolutionary paradigm, fungi, gene classification, genes, genomes, genomics, genomics analysis, H. sapiens, Intelligent Design, nucleotide sequences, O. sativa, ORfan genes, plants, PLOS ONE, S. cerevisiae, search engine, taxonomic groups, Z. mays
The existence of such genes is surprising given the hypothesis of universal common descent. Source
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27Aug 2021 by Post

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

"poor design", bioinformatics, biological structures, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, Eva Balsa-Canto, Evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, Intelligent Design, Julio R. Banga, Junk DNA, knee, Living with Darwin, Nathan Lents, Nikolaos Tsiantis, optimality, pelvis, Philip Kitcher, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia
Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Source
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