Found: Oldest Evidence for an Organismal Magnetic Compass

animals, bacteria, biology, biomineralization, Cambridge University, crystals, fossils, Intelligent Design, iron oxide, Life Sciences, magnetic compass, magnetic induction, magnetite, magnetofossils, magnetoreception, Max Planck Institute, organisms, quantum effects, radical pair theory, salmon, trout
The evidence exists in so-called magnetofossils found in marine sediments that have been dated to 97 million years old. Source
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Remarkable Engineering and the “Two Brains” Myth

Ars Technica, biology, brain, designer, Engineering, Evolution, forebrain, hindbrain, John Timmer, midbrain, Nature (journal), nervous system, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, reptilian brain, signaling molecules, skin, Stanford University, tail, Tudor Tarita, two brains, vertebrates, ZME Science
Did two brains evolve into one? This is not a left brain/right brain thing. It is more like claims for a reptilian brain underlying our mammalian one. Source
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Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

A. E. Wilder-Smith, Apologetics, biological complexity, biology, Chinese Room, creationists, Faith & Science, function, genotype, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, John Searle, Marcel Schützenberger, Martin M. Kaplan, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, Paul S. Moorhead, phenotype, semantics, Stanislaw Ulam, The Creation of Life, University of Illinois at Chicago, William Dembski, Wistar Symposium, Young Earth Creationism
Biology was giving us computer programming and symbolic codes which, by mapping functional structures to functional structures, exhibited a tacit semantics.  Source
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Agency as the Emerging Naturalist Paradigm

A Matter of Time, agency, agent theory, Amahury J. Lopez-Diaz, biology, Carlos Gershenson, Denis Walsh, environments, Everything Flows, evolutionary biology, evolutionary theory, goal, Intelligent Design, intentionality, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, means, metaphysics, naturalism, Newtonian physics, objectcy, ontology, repertoire, requirement, science of purpose, scientism, synthetic realization, teleology, thermodynamics, University of Toronto
Jaques Monod, along with other champions of 20th-century scientism, was entirely mistaken. Source
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NYU Press Pulls Anti-ID Book with Fabricated Quote from Michael Behe

academic publishers, Baylor University, biochemists, biology, C. W. Howell, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity Today, Denis Noble, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), Discovery Institute, Duke University, Edward Larson, fake quotes, Francis Beckwith, Intelligent Design, Jennifer Hammer, John West, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, New York University Press, Oxford University, scholarship, Science and Culture Today, scientific reasoning, Seattle
“What happened is deeply ironic. This book was touted by the publisher as showing how ID's skepticism of Darwinism contributed to a ‘post-truth’ society." Source
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Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

Africa, beneficial mutations, biology, C-Harlem, cellular networks, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Dave Farina, de novo genes, degradation, Educating Dave Farina (series), Evolution, expression, generation time, genetics, information, insults, loss of function, Michael Behe, misrepresentations, name-calling, neofunctionalization, neutral mutations, non-coding DNA, population genetics, probabilistic resources, protein folding, pseudogenes, purifying selection, strawman, The Edge of Evolution, unguided processes, YouTubers
Farina’s response to my previous series is characterized by misrepresentations, selective engagement, and reliance on insults and name-calling. Source
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In Defense of The Edge of Evolution, a Response to Dave Farina

bacteria, biology, Cit+, complex molecular interactions, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), eukaryotes, Evolution, fitness landscapes, generation time, genetics, genomes, HIV, mammals, Michael Behe, mutation rates, mutations, patients, population sizes, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, viruses, Vpu, YouTubers
If evolution is capable of producing complex molecular interactions, the place where we would most expect to find them is in viruses like HIV. Source
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Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On: A Seminal Contribution to Biology

A Mousetrap for Darwin, Baylor University, biochemistry, biology, Brown University, bubonic plague, Charles Thaxton, Congress, Darwin's Black Box, Douglas Axe, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, faculty, injectisome, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, James Shapiro, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kenneth Miller, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, motorcycles, mousetrap, naturalists, non-theistic evolution, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, protein evolution, Roger Olsen, San Francisco, Seattle Pacific University, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Meyer, T3SS, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theistic evolution, Type 3 Secretory System, University of Chicago, Walter Bradley, Yersinia pestis, __featured1
It makes sense to think that the T3SS didn’t evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS.  Source
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What Academics Actually Think: Higher Priorities and Silent Support for Design

academia, academics, agnostics, atheists, biology, China, Discovery Institute, Engineering, Evolution, human nature, humanists, Intelligent Design, Lucy Hyde, origin of life, peer pressure, Responding to Lucy Hyde (series), Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess, Ultimate Engineering, University of Bristol, Whewell Centre
"One of the most encouraging things I’ve found in academia is how many people secretly support intelligent design." Source
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