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07Jun 2024 by Post

The Junk Shop of Andreas Wagner

Andreas Wagner, arrival of the fittest, automobile, contraptions, Darwinian evolution, de novo genes, Evolution, Francois Jacob, gadgets, genes, Intelligent Design, junk shop, junkyard, molecular machines, predictions, Sleeping Beauties, tinkerer, William Dembski, Zeitgeist

The fundamental dilemma is this: whenever you co-opt any part from an old system and put it in a new system, there are two possibilities. Source

16May 2024 by Post

A Question on New Genes and Animal Origins

animal origins, animals, biologist, biology, Casey Luskin, Evolution, eyes, genes, information, Intelligent Design, metazoans, Nature Communications, proteins, protists, single-celled organisms, taxa

A correspondent wrote to us with an interesting question about evolution that arose in a discussion he had with a biologist. Source

15May 2024 by Post

Consciousness BEFORE Life? These Scientists Say Yes

Alexander Oparin, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, asteroids, Bennu, brains, consciousness, Dante Lauretta, Darwinian materialists, Evolution, genes, Institute for Arts and Ideas, mind, Murchison meteorite, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophers, quantum collapse, quantum superpositions, Roger Penrose, scientists, solar system, Stuart Hameroff, wave function

One key way life differs from non-life is that life forms have goals. For example, the amoeba seeks to protect itself. Source

16Feb 2024 by Post

Denis Noble in Nature: “Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life”

agency, BioEssays, biology, blueprint, Brian Miller, Bruce Alberts, Cell (journal), computers, Denis Noble, Dennis Venema, diseases, DNA, Douglas Axe, Evolution, factory, genes, genomes, How Life Works, Intelligent Design, intrinsically disordered proteins, Junk DNA, machines, Nature (journal), organisms, paradigm shift, Philip Ball, proteins, purpose, RNA genes, traits, transformers

In his review, Noble comes right out and says that “Classic views of evolution should also be questioned.” Source

28Nov 2023 by Post

The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

anomalies, BioEssays, biology, brain function, dogma, epigenetic information, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary theory, function, gene regulation, genes, genetic programming, geochemical anomalies, inheritance, Intelligent Design, John Mattick, Junk DNA, molecular biology, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, RNA genes, Thomas Kuhn, transgenerational memory

RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Source

30Oct 2023 by Post

Intelligent Design at High Altitudes

adaptive evolution, altitude, Andes, biology, bioRxiv, California, convergent evolution, Current Biology, epigenetics, Evolution, genes, Himalayas, Homo sapiens, hypobaric hypoxia, Intelligent Design, Jay Storz, Mars, mice, Mount Everest Summiters Club, Mount Whitney, mummies, Nepal, Phyllotis vaccarum, radiocarbon dating, Sherpas, University of Nebraska

Surprised at the ability of mammals to thrive at high altitudes, some evolutionists are looking to Darwinian theory for answers. Source

20Aug 2023 by Post

A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning

academic politics, Chemistry, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, DNA, Evolution, genes, genetic code, information, Intelligent Design, Marcello Barbieri, materialism, Meaning, natural selection, paradigm, physics, private truth, public truth, teleology, University of Ferrara

The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide. Source

15Aug 2023 by Post

Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

16S rRNA, bacteria, Carl Woese, conservation of function, conservation of genes, Evolution, function, functional synonyms, genes, Genome Biology, genomes, Intelligent Design, last bacterial common ancestor, LCBA, lorry, Orthodoxy, orthologous group, quiz, Tree of Life, truck

Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Source

17May 2023 by Post

The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer: Intelligent Design

astronomers, astronomy, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dawkins Test, epicycles, Evolution, Evolution News, family tree, genes, geocentric model, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, phylogenomics, Physics, Earth & Space, Richard Dawkins, solar system, The Greatest Show on Earth, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry

Dr. Luskin details the various ways that the rapidly developing field of phylogenomics is uncovering data that powerfully fits the ID model of life’s history. Source

28Apr 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

Darwinism, ecological niches, Evolution, flukes, Fossil Friday, fossil record, genes, genetic changes, genetic coding, just-so stories, Late Cretaceous, legends, marine reptiles, mathematics, mosasaurs, mutations, North America, paleontology, Plesioplatecarpus planifroms, population genetics, sea serpents, sharks, waiting-time problem

The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Source

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