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15Oct 2021 by Post

Studies on Stickleback Fish Further Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

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Cichlid and stickleback fish are two of the most iconic examples of adaption that biologists present as evidence for the plausibility of evolutionary processes. Source

14Oct 2021 by Post

Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

adaptation, biology, cichlid fish, engineered systems, Evolution, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic diversity, information, Intelligent Design, Kara Feilich, Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyka, Lake Victoria, mutation rate, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, phenotypic plasticity, principal component analysis, tracking model of adaptation

Cichlid variation do not primarily originate from random mutations but from engineered systems. Source

13Oct 2021 by Post

Studies on Labrid Fish Confirm Operational Gravity Well Model for Adaptation

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The extent to which the authors recognize the implications of their conclusions is difficult to say. Source

09Oct 2021 by Post

Francis Collins’s Pseudogenes: An Icon of Evolution Now in Crisis

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Casey Luskin discusses how theistic Darwinists Francis Collins and Karl Giberson rely on the argument that pseudogenes are junk. Source

08Oct 2021 by Post

Can New Proteins Evolve?

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What enables a long chain of linked amino acids to perform highly specific molecular functions with machine-like precision? Source

06Oct 2021 by Post

Biologist Jonathan Wells Gives “Top Scientific Problems with Evolution”

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Darwin anticipated “innumerable transitions” in the fossil record, but such a rainbow of transitional forms has never been found. Source

25Sep 2021 by Post

The Design Connection in Biological Tracking Systems

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If organisms resulted from haphazard undirected processes, their design constraints would be few and highly flexible. Source

24Sep 2021 by Post

Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

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Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Source

24Sep 2021 by Post

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

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Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Source

22Sep 2021 by Post

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

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They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Source

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