To Crowdsource DNA, or Not to Crowdsource DNA: A Microbe’s Decision Pathway

AbrB, antibiotics, autoregulation, Bacillus subtilis, bacteria, biology, cassettes, cell fate, chemotaxis, CodY, ComK, competence, crowdsourcing, DegU, dense overlapping regulons, DNA, Energy, environmental conditions, exponential growth, feed-forward loops, gene expression, gene regulatory network, graduate school, housekeeping, Intelligent Design, isoleucine, leucine, metabolic pathways, metabolism, microorganisms, principal investigator, Rok, Sigma-H, single input modules, sporulation, stress, superintellect, transcription, valine, virulence
These are the same type of understandable and logical computation circuits that humans design. What can we learn from observing this similarity? Source
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On Minds and Machines, Richard Dawkins’s Curious Inconsistency

artificial inteligence, atheists, biology, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, Computational Sciences, computing, consciousness, intelligence, Intelligent Design, large language models, living systems, personal identity, philosophy, plagiarists, Richard Dawkins, Technology, UnHerd
If we encounter far more advanced informational technology in living organisms, isn’t the same intuition at least worth considering? Source
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Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

adaptations, biology, conscious purposiveness, determinism, Edmund Ware Sinnott, environment, epigenetics, Eva Jablonka, Evolution, Evolution: The History of an Idea, freedom, George Levine, Georges Cuvier, history, history of science, homeostasis, inheritance, instinctive regulation, J. Scott Turner, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Laurent Larson, Marion Lamb, Motivation, neo-Darwinian synthesis, personality, Peter J. Bowler, Purpose and Desire, regeneration, Skeptic Magazine, teleology, The Power of Life, Yale University
The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Source
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Biological Codes, and More: Evolutionists Scramble for an Adequate Cause

acetylation, atheists, biological codes, biology, Cambridge University, DNA, DNA tag maps, evolutionists, genetics, George Church, Harvard University, histone tag maps, histones, human cell, Human Genome Project, intelligence, Intelligent Design, iPhone, Life Sciences, materialism, methylation, Michael Behe, Mind and Cosmos, Nanoarchaeum equitans, Oxford University Press, Peter Lipton, phosphorylation, Robert Prinz, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, supercomputer, Thomas Nagel, uniformitarianism, William Dembski
Much of the information essential to cellular function isn’t editable via random genetic mutations in DNA and is thus inaccessible to the Darwinian mechanism. Source
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Aboard a Submarine to Explore a Living Cell

biology, cellular activity, cellular architecture, Darwinian evolution, DNA, epigenetic controls, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, Fantastic Voyage, genetics, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, ID The Future, information, Innerspace, Intelligent Design, James Gills, living cell, molecular machines, sci-fi movies, shrinking, submarine, Tom Woodward
What if you could climb aboard an incredible shrinking submarine and travel into the heart of a living cell? This would be a tour like no other, to be sure! Source
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Epigenome Is Biology’s Second Revolution

biology, blueprint of life, cell's, computer keys, computer screen, DNA, epigenetic information, epigenetics, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, fertilized egg, genes, genetics, hardware, ID The Future, information, integrated complexity, Intelligent Design, James Gills, protein robots, supercomputer, Thomas Woodward
Thomas Woodward compares the epigenetic system to a supercomputer where information is written everywhere — on the hardware, the screen, and even the keys. Source
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Real Star of the World Cup: The Human Foot

American flag, Ari Hoffman, Australia, Belgium, biologists, biology, bones, cadaver, Christian Pulisic, connective tissue, crowds, Diego Maradona, Egypt, FIFA, goalkeeper, human foot, inconvenience, Intelligent Design, ligaments, movement, multifunctionality, pedestrian area, Seattle, shock, soccer, Sports, tendons, terrorism, Townhall, trains, unguided evolution, United States, World Cup
In few sports, perhaps, does the foot stand out more. Emily Reeves offers an appreciation. Source
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Paper in Cell Reports “Paradigm Shift” Against TEs as “Genomic Parasites or Junk DNA”

autoimmune disease, biology, biomarkers, cancer, Cell (journal), disease, dysregulation, Evolution, exons, gene enhancers, gene expression, gene regulatory networks, gene silencers, genetics, genome architecture, genome organization, human genome, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, lncRNAs, mammalian DNA, methylation, Nature (journal), neurodegeneration, non-coding RNAs, promoters, repetitive DNA, RNA, Science (journal), splicing regulators, transposable elements
This language is remarkable coming from a journal often considered the third most important in the world for biology. Source
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Michael Denton’s Work Shows ETs in UFOs Would Not Exist in a Purposeless Universe

atmosphere, biology, carbon, combustion, computer chips, cosmos, disclosure, Disclosure Day, Discovery Institute Press, earth sciences, Earth’s crust, environmental fitness, extraterrestrials, fire, Goldilocks Zone, government, hominins, Homo erectus, hydrological cycle, Intelligent Design, knuckle-walking, lasers, magnets, metallurgy, metals, Michael Denton, oxygen molecules, photosynthesis, Planetology, plant matter, PLOS ONE, primal blueprint, purpose, respiration, semiconductors, South Africa, space, spacecraft, Steven Spielberg, sugars, Technology, The Miracle of Man, tools, trees, UFOs, universe, Wonderwerk Cave, wood
Fire is a central part of human existence, and it’s a necessary requirement for building technology, whether primitive or complex. Source
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More Functions Reported for Repeat “Junk” DNA

biology, CCCTC-binding factor, DNA, DNA structure, function, G-quadruplex, G4s, gene expression, genetics, genome, genome topology, guanine, humans, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, minisatellite, non-B DNA, pericentromeric repeats, PNAS, repetitive DNA, telomeres, telomeric repeats, topologically associating domains
Papers note that repetitive DNA — the type of DNA that our junk-DNA-defending friends assure us must be functionless — is vital for forming G4 structures. Source
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