04Feb 2026 by Post

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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28Jan 2026 by Post

Could Genetic Mutations Be Non-Random? New Evidence for Mutational Bias

Africa, African sleeping sickness, APOL1, Daniel Melamed, diseases, Engineering, Evolution, genes, genetic mutations, genetics, genomes, germline genome, haploid, heterozygotes, HindIII, homozygotes, Intelligent Design, Israel, malaria, MEMDS, mutation DNA, Mutation Enrichment followed by Maximum Depth Sequencing, mutation frequency, mutations, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, randomness, restriction enzyme, sperm, sperm DNA, Trypanosoma brucei, University of Haifa, wild-type DNA
The researchers examined the emergence of a mutation in the human APOL1 gene that confers protection from African sleeping sickness. Source
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30Dec 2025 by Post

No. 3 Story for 2025: Immaterial Genome Is Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

biology, Christianity, David Klinghoffer, DNA, Evolution, Faith & Science, genes, genetic instructions, geneticists, genome, Georg Cantor, immaterial genome, infinite sets, Intelligent Design, Judaism, leather shoes, Life Itself, material genome, materialism, mathematics, non-coding DNA, pearls, Plato, proteins, recombination, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, set theory, sneakers, transposable elements, tsimtsum
Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Source
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10Dec 2025 by Post

The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

animals, Ascaris megalocephala, bar code, Cenorhabditis elegans, Chemistry, chimpanzees, chromosome number, chromosomes, Cruciferae, DNA, donkeys, Drosophila, Evolution, ferns, fruit flies, genes, genetics, homunculus, humans, idiogram, Junk DNA, Lego blocks, Ninth Symphony, nucleotides, Ophioglossum petiolatum, Parthenon, physics, plants, proteins, roundworm, Salvador Dalì, wheat, zebras
Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned. Source
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11Nov 2025 by Post

For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Africa, animals, atheists, cellular operations, Christie’s, codes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, digital code, DNA, double helix, Evolution, faith, Francis Crick, genes, genetic isolation, genetics, history, Human Zoos, humans beings, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, James D. Watson, John West, language, Maurice Wilkins, nihilism, Nobel Prize, Plato's Revenge, Race, Racism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, sequence hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, theism
Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Source
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20Sep 2025 by Post

Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

altruism, burning cars, Casey Luskin, Culture, Education, Evolution, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary utility, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, Marvel Universe, Podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, strangers, teamwork
Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Source
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15Sep 2025 by Post

Two Peer-Reviewed Papers Apply Behe’s “Darwin Devolves” Thesis to Cancer 

Ann Gauger, BRAF, cancer, cancer genomics, cell growth, cell types, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, Denis Noble, driver mutations, EGFR, Evolution, genes, IDH1/2, Intelligent Design, JAK2, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Kras, Medicine, metazoans, Michael Behe, Molecular Cancer Research, mutations, National Cancer Institute, Perry Marshall, PIK3CA, reproduction, survival, tumor, tumor promoter proteins, tumor suppressor proteins, Vanderbilt University
One day in the mid 2010s, Ann Gauger and I received a message that an ID-friendly scientist was in town and wanted to meet us. Source
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30Jul 2025 by Post

Recurring Design Logic in Attenuation Mechanisms

amino acids, Arginine, attenuation, biology, biosynthesis, blind processes, design logic, DNA, Engineering, enzymes, Evolution, genes, hairpin, histidine, homology, Intelligent Design, leader transcript, mRNA, operon regulation, operons, phenylalanines, prokaryotes, recurring design logic, regulation, Ribosome, RNA polymerase, transcription, translation, tryptophan, unguided processes
Despite the striking parallels between these systems in terms of the design logic, these attenuation systems are not evolutionarily related to one another. Source
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29Jul 2025 by Post

Recurring Design Logic in Operon Regulation

Arginine, bacteria, bacterial cell, bacterial systems, biology, biosynthesis, conformational change, DNA, enzymes, Evolution, evolutionary origins, genes, Intelligent Design, lactose, operons, recurring design logic, regulatory systems, repressor, RNA polymerase, sequence homology, stop codons, structural motif, superfamily, transcriptional hierarchies, tryptophan
As we see in these two examples, the design logic is the same. And yet, these two systems are not evolutionarily related to one another. Source
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