11Jul 2025 by Post

Recurring Design Logic in Living Systems

attractants, Bacillus subtilis, bacteria, biological systems, biology, bioluminescence, chemotaxis, Complexity, Darwin's Black Box, E. coli, Evolution, genes, Intelligent Design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, musicians, outer membrane, painters, poisons, proteins, Salmonella, signal transduction, sporulation, toxins
Architects, painters, musicians, and other creators apply recognizable patterns of thinking to their craft. Source
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14Apr 2025 by Post

Sporulation: Another Example of a Transcriptional Hierarchy

apoptosis, axial filament, Bacillus subtilis, biological systems, chromosome, cortex, dehydration, desiccation, dormancy, Evolution, flagellar genes, forespore, gene-coding, heat, Intelligent Design, master-architect, mother cell, peptidoglycan, regulator, Salmonella, signaling protein, Spo0A, SpoIIR, spore, spore coats, sporulation, transcriptional hierarchy, UV radiation
Examples like this suggest the existence of a master-architect behind biological systems. Source
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01Apr 2025 by Post

Emily Reeves: How to Study Biology with Systems Engineering Principles

ATP synthase, bacterial flagellar motor, biological systems, biologists, biology, cancer, Emily Reeves, engineered systems, engineers, glycolysis, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, living systems, methodology, nanotechnology, Photosystem I, Podcast, Research, scientific literature, systems engineering, Warburg effect
Traditional methods in biology have proven insufficient for understanding and accurately predicting complex biological systems. Why? Source
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07Mar 2022 by Post

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

Bacillus, Bacillus subtilis, beauty, biological redundancy, biological systems, biology, catalytic converters, cellular cost, design triangulation, duplicate genes, E. coli, elegance, Elizabeth Mueller, environment variability, enzymes, Evolution, fine-tuning, fitness, function, gene expression, genetic information, Intelligent Design, keyless entry systems, laboratory conditions, maintenance, Neo-Darwinism, optimality, periplasmic enzymes, precision, proteins, responsive backup circuits, robustness, speakers, sporulation, Stanford University, storage, transmission
In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Source
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28Feb 2022 by Post

Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance

A Mousetrap for Darwin, biological systems, Casey Luskin, CCC, chloroquine complexity cluster, chloroquine resistance, coordinated mutations, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Laurence Moran, Michael Behe, mutation rate, mutations, PfCRT, Plasmodium falciparum, PNAS, proteins, Robert L. Summers, Sandwalk, The Edge of Evolution
The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process. Source
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23Jan 2021 by Post

Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Measuring Mount Rushmore

algorithmic specified complexity, aliens, American history, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute Dallas, humanoids, humans, images, information, Intelligent Design, Mount Rushmore, pre-existing patterns, Robert J. Marks, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
A non-humanoid gelatinous alien might assign no meaning to the faces on Mount Rushmore if the alien had never seen a humanoid. Source
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01Dec 2020 by Post

“Resolution Revolution”: Intelligent Design, Now at the Atomic Level

adaptive optics, angstroms, atoms, ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, Boston University, Chemistry, Cryo-EM microscopy, Daniel Hammer, diffraction limit, electron microscope, Food and Drug Administration, Intelligent Design, Jed Macosco, Jiulia He, John E. Walker, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Leonhard Möckl, Methods in Molecular Biology, Michael Behe, microglia, microscopy, mitochondria, molecular machines, Nature News and Views, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, neuroscience, Nobel Prize, ophthalmology, optical coherence tomography, optical engineers, PNAS, Protein Science (journal), ribose operon, rotors, Sheng Xiao, Stanford University, W. E. Moerner
Breakthroughs in imaging are allowing scientists to see iconic molecular machines in unprecedented detail. This will be a great boon for design science. Source
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