08Jun 2025 by Post

Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World

adaptations, bacteria, biology, Carolyn Hovde, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dustin Van Hofwegen, E. coli, engineered complexity, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary leap, genetic mechanisms, ID The Future, innovation, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Witt, Journal of Bacteriology, microbes, Podcast, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho
On a classic episode of ID the Future, host Jonathan Witt speaks with molecular biologist and professor Dustin Van Hofwegen about his research into the engineered complexity in microbial life. The two sat down at the yearly Conference on Engineering in Living Systems to discuss the event, which brings together biologists and engineers to study how engineering principles can be applied to living things, as well as Hofwegen’s article in the Journal of Bacteriology, co-authored with Carolyn Hovde and Scott Minnich, based on research conducted at the University of Idaho.  Hofwegen shares his research on the famous decades-long E. coli evolution experiment conducted by Richard Lenski, which showed the sudden appearance of an ability to utilize citrate after many generations. However, Van Hofwegen’s own Read More › Source
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06Jun 2025 by Post

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

algorithms, Brian Miller, cognition, David Klinghoffer, decision-making, DNA, embryos, Evolution, genes, genetics, Harvard University, ID The Future, immaterial genome, information, Intelligent Design, life, Michael Levin, nucleotide alteration, physicalism, physicists, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Podcast, purpose, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, scientific revolution, software, splicing, teleonomy, Tufts University
Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Source
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23May 2025 by Post

Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

1 percent myth, American Museum of Natural History, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, chimps, common decent, de novo, Emily Reeves, Evolution, human exceptionalism, human genome, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, ID The Future, National Geographic, new york, order of magnitude, Podcast, Science (journal), Science Reporting, Scientific American
The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Source
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08May 2025 by Post

Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb

bamboo, clumsy, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, giant pandas, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mammals, mechanical systems, paleontologists, Panda's Thumb, Podcast, radial sesamoid, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Burgess, suboptimal, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone
Giant pandas have an elongated wrist bone, the radial sesamoid, that allows them to handle and eat bamboo with great dexterity. Source
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24Apr 2025 by Post

Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge

Artificial Intelligence, bias, COSM, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, editors, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, LarrySanger.org, Nathan Jacobson, natural selection, random mutation, scientific reasoning, settled science, truth-seeking, Wikipedia
Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design. Source
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12Apr 2025 by Post

Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

abolitionism, Adrian Desmond, anti-slavery, Charles Darwin, Darwinian racism, Darwinian theory, Darwin’s Bluff, Evolution, historical fiction, history of science, Human Origins and Anthropology, ID The Future, indigenous peoples, Intelligent Design, James Moore, Michael Keas, Podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, truth
A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Source
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