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03Jul 2021 by Post

Biological Information Beyond DNA: The Sugar Code

biological information, biology, Casey Luskin, DNA, Evolution, ID The Future, Jonathan Wells, membrane surfaces, peer-reviewed literature, Podcast, sugar code, sugar molecules

Biologist Jonathan Wells discusses the “sugar code,” a non-DNA form of information that is determined by patterns of sugar molecules on membrane surfaces. Source

19Jun 2021 by Post

Watch: Bechly and Swamidass Debate Intelligent Design

biology, Cambrian Explosion, computational biology, Darwinism, debates, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Joshua Swamidass, Justin Brierley, neo-Darwinian theory, neutral evolution, paleontology, Washington University

One highlight is Dr. Bechly’s summation of his scientific reasons for affirming intelligent design. This produces the response from host Justin Brierley: “Wow.” Source

18Jun 2021 by Post

The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published

biology, Bob Richards, creationists, Evolution, Frank Lewis Marsh, Genetics and the Origin of Species, history of science, Macroevolution, Mark B. Adams, Microevolution, neo-Darwinian theory, Richard Delisle, Russia, Theodosius Dobzhansky, United States, University of Chicago, University of Lethbridge, University of Nebraska, University of Pennsylvania, William C. Wimsatt, Yuri Filipchenko

The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.” Source

11Jun 2021 by Post

Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

archaea, bacteria, biogeography, biology, Biology Direct, cell's, discontinuity, Douglas Theobald, embryology, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, Evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, Intelligent Design, mathematics, mechanisms of evolution, paleontology, phyla, protein folds, rafting, Theistic Evolution (book), transitional forms, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry, viruses

For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Source

05Jun 2021 by Post

“Fin-To-Limb” Paper Shows Destructive Nature of “Evo-Devo” Mutations

BioLogos, biology, Brian Miller, Cell (journal), Darrel Falk, dorsal fin, dysmorphic, evo-devo, Evolution, Evolution News, heterozygotic form, homology, homozygotic form, Intelligent Design, mutations, pectoral fins, radius, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, tetrapod limbs, ulna

Because of the “dysmorphic” phenotype from a homozygous genotype, these mutant genes would be highly unlikely to become fixed in a population. Source

31May 2021 by Post

Cell Cannibalism Shows Intelligent Design

Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid proteins, biochemists, biology, blood cells, brain, caspases, cell's, enzyme, Foresight (book), Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonas Salk, Jun Suzuki, Kyoto University, lipid, lipid flag, Marcos Eberlin, Masahiro Maruoka, microglia, Molecular Cell, phagocytes, phospholipid, Salk Institute, scramblases, Xkr4, XRCC4, “Eat Me!” signal

“Eat me!” cries a cell to other cells. But biochemists know it is for the greater good. Source

26May 2021 by Post

Our Debt to the Scientific Atheists

atheists, biology, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Lawrence Krauss, Personal God, Philosophy of Science, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, scientific atheism, Stephen Meyer

Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins are right that question about God's existence is also a question about science, and can be adjudicated as such. Source

21May 2021 by Post

Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Don’t Have a Good Track Record

"poor design", An Introduction to Systems Biology, ARF, bioengineering, biological information, biology, Darwinian processes, diarrhea, Erez Ribak, Erika DeBenedictis, gut bacteria, INK4a, Intelligent Design, MIT, Müller cells, natural selection, neurons, optic nerve, photoreceptors, physiology, random mutation, Technion, TEDx talk, Uri Alon, vertebrate eye, vestigial organs

For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology. Source

20May 2021 by Post

Stephen Meyer: The Evidence “Cries Out” for God, Not the Other Way Around

Apologetics, Atheism, biology, BreakPoint, cosmology, Down syndrome, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, James Tour, John Stonestreet, materialism, mistakes, New Atheists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer, theism, unborn children, utilitarianism, William Dembski

I have heard ID dismissed as “apologetics,” with the implication of proponents in search of evidence to support a conclusion to which they're pre-committed. Source

19May 2021 by Post

Optimality Recognized in Core Biological Infrastructure

"poor design", amino acids, Athel Cornish-Bowden, biology, biology textbooks, carbon, constraints, development, Drosophila, elements, embryology, Erika DeBenedictis, glycolysis, human engineers, human genome, Intelligent Design, María Luz Cárdenas-Cerda, metabolism, Michael Denton, natural amino acids, optimality, Pareto optimality, Princeton University, TEDx talk, William Bialek

I will begin with an example from embryology, then turn to metabolism, and finish with the breadth of chemical space covered by the natural amino acids. Source

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