Recurring Design Logic in Operon Regulation

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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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Homelessness, Intelligent Design, and the Unseen Realm

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Compared with previous approaches, the new Executive Order reflects a fundamentally different picture of reality. What should we call it? Source
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For Darwinism, Here Is the Problem with Butterfly Mimicry

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The usual explanation we hear is that the butterflies, spiders, plants, etc., “evolved this way in order to” survive predators. Source
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A Century After the Scopes Trial, Censoring Spirit on Evolution Still Thrives

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From evolutionists, a surge of persecutions has included tenure denials, job blacklisting, and speech codes. Source
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Walter Bradley: The Origin Story of an Intelligent Design Classic

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Today, we bring you the second half of Robert J. Marks’s 2020 interview with Dr. Bradley. Source
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McLatchie Explains Design Implications of DNA Replication

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Dr. McClatchie notes its “primitive” nature — meaning, not a lack of sophistication (quite the opposite!) but that life at the most basic level depends on it. Source
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Slime Mold: Thanks for the Memories

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In recent decades, researchers have been learning about memory in slime molds which have neither a brain nor neurons. Source
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New Article from James Tour Undermines a Pillar of Origin-of-Life Theories

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Proteins and RNA degrade at rates that render their spontaneous formation under natural, undirected conditions highly implausible. Source
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Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi

awareness, computers, decay, decisions, fungi, fungus colony, humans, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Japan, learning, machines, machine cognition, memory, metacognition, Michelle Starr, nature rights, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, panpsychism, Phanerochaete velutina, rescue dogs, Science Alert, slime molds, thinking, Tohoku University, transhumanism, Yu Fukasawa
We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them. Source
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