Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Computational Sciences, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, Evolution, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, Intelligent Design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Source
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Remarkable Engineering and the “Two Brains” Myth

Ars Technica, biology, brain, designer, Engineering, Evolution, forebrain, hindbrain, John Timmer, midbrain, Nature (journal), nervous system, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, reptilian brain, signaling molecules, skin, Stanford University, tail, Tudor Tarita, two brains, vertebrates, ZME Science
Did two brains evolve into one? This is not a left brain/right brain thing. It is more like claims for a reptilian brain underlying our mammalian one. Source
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Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

Bantu, bonobos, Chiara De Gregorio, chimpanzees, Communications Biology, DuckDuckGo, English, French Academy, Genesis, gorillas, great apes, human speech, humans, Intelligent Design, isochrony, Japanese, laughter, linguistics, metronome, Nature (journal), Neuroscience & Mind, orangutans, origin of language, primates, Shigeru Miyagawa, University of Warwick, Why Agree? Why Move?, ZME Science
A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Source
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Paper in Cell Reports “Paradigm Shift” Against TEs as “Genomic Parasites or Junk DNA”

autoimmune disease, biology, biomarkers, cancer, Cell (journal), disease, dysregulation, Evolution, exons, gene enhancers, gene expression, gene regulatory networks, gene silencers, genetics, genome architecture, genome organization, human genome, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, lncRNAs, mammalian DNA, methylation, Nature (journal), neurodegeneration, non-coding RNAs, promoters, repetitive DNA, RNA, Science (journal), splicing regulators, transposable elements
This language is remarkable coming from a journal often considered the third most important in the world for biology. Source
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Physicist Overstates the “Gradual” Nature of Human Origins in the Fossil Record

Ann Gauger, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, brain size, cranial buttressing, dental function, Evolution, First Things, God's Grandeur, Homo erectus, Homo rudolfensis, Homo sapiens, Human Origins, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, Nature (journal), paleoanthropologists, paleontology, Stephen Barr, theology, University of Delaware
We’ve gone back and forth with Dr. Barr many times in the past. Mainstream paleoanthropologists acknowledge that the origin of humans is sudden and abrupt. Source
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“Peptideins”? Give Those Shorties Another Look

amino acids, annotation, automated sequence annotation programs, bachelors, biologists, biology, common descent, conservation, Evolution, evolutionary conservation, functional status, gymnasium, Intelligent Design, John Mattick, Nature (journal), neologisms, open reading frame, peptide, phone number, protein, shared inter-taxon similarity
Picture short, lonely bachelors in rented formal wear, leaning on the wall, nervously checking their watches at the annotation dance. Source
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Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

1 percent myth, apes, Arne Schirmacher, ATP, Australopithecus, Bible, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, designer, Energy, geneticists, genetics, German, grass, Günter Bechly, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, Institute of Genetics, Köln, living fossils, Max Planck Institute, metabolic processes, mice, naturalism, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, nucleotide differences, origin of life, Peter Pan, protein sequences, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, subway, University of Bonn, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, yeast
"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Source
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Do the Asgard Archaea Hold the Keys to Eukaryotic Origins?

aerobic lifestyle, Alphaproteobacteria, Arctic Ocean, Asgard, Asgard archaea, biology, cell division, cell's, cytokinesis, electron transport chain complex, ESCRT-III division, eukaryotes, eukaryotic signature proteins, Evolution, FtsZ proteins, hydrogenases, hydrothermal vent, Intelligent Design, Lokiarchaeota, Loki’s Castle, mitochondria, mitosis, Nature (journal), Norse deities, Odinarcheota, polymerization, synthesis, Thorarchaeota
In 2015, a new superphylum of archaea was reported, having been discovered through metagenomic sequences of sediments. Source
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Happy New Year! No. 1 Story for 2025: Bombshell Overturns Myth of 1 Percent Difference

1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), burying the lede, chimpanzees, common ancestry, David Klinghoffer, DNA, Evolution, gap difference, genomes, human exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Kevin Williamson, Museum of Natural History, National Review, Nature (journal), science journalism, Smithsonian Institution, statistics, Supplementary Data, zombies
This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Source
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No. 9 Story for 2025: Biological Foresight Wins Nobel Prize

autoimmune diseases, blood clotting cascade, Daniel Davis, Daniel Lawler, Foxp3, Fred Ramsdell, Helen Thomson, Immune System, immunologists, Imperial College London, Institute for Systems Biology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Japan, Julien Dury, Mary Brunkow, Medicine, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, regulatory T cells, San Francisco, Seattle, Shimon Sakaguchi, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Tregs, University of Osaka, Your Amazing Body
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 2025 was awarded to three immunologists who discovered regulatory T cells. Source
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