Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

anatomy, art, Claude Debussy, cooking, dexterity, Engineering, evolutionary process, evolutionary theory, exoskeleton, fingers, fitness, Formula 1 race car, go-kart, hand muscles, human brain, Intelligent Design, Menahem Pressler, motor cortex, motor units, muscle units, muscles, music, nerve pathways, prosthetic device, skillful moving, surgery, survival, Technology, tool-making, touch, typing, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Source
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On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence

adenine, biochemists, biology, E. coli, Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness, fossil record, gene, gene transcription, genes, genetics, genotype, homology, information, James Tour, lactose, Michael Behe, natural selection, promoter, random mutations, regulatory control, researchers, Rice University, S. cerevisiae, tryptophan, W303, When Can I Trust What Scientists Say? (series), yeast, YouTube videos
In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Source
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The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

Conservation of Information, David Thomas, Design Inference, displacement fallacy, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, evolutionary computing, fitness, Intelligent Design, mathematics, mount improbable, Nature (journal), Peter Robinson, pigeonhole principle, Richard Dawkins, shell game, simulation, Tesla, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Ray, Thomas Schneider, William Shakespeare
In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. Source
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Darwin’s Zombies Are Still Shambling Along

Aleksandr Oparin, Antonia Monteiro, Antonion Lazcano, bacteria, butterflies, Evolution, fitness, genetic mutations, Heliconius, Icons of Evolution, inheritance, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Lepidopterans, mainstream media, materialism, MicroRNAs, moths, peppered moths, RNAs, Science (journal), selection, Stanley L. Miller, University of Singapore, Zombie Science
When will scientists and reporters learn not to trot out these falsified stories? Source
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Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

abiogenesis, early Earth, enzymes, Eric Anderson, Evolution, fitness, Gerald Joyce, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, intelligent intervention, intervention, James Tour, medical engineers, origin of life, PNAS, Research, researchers, RNA world, Robert Stadler, Salk Institute, self-replicating RNA, Stephen Meyer, Washington Post
Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis. Source
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