Navigation Ability Crosses Phylum Lines — And That’s a Problem for Evolution

algorithms, Angular Head Velocity, Animal Algorithms, ants, backtracking, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, calculus, Cambrian phyla, casting, Darwinian theory, Eric Cassell, goldfish, hardware, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Life Sciences, mammals, Nature (journal), Nature Communications Biology, navigation, Neuron (journal), neurons, olfaction, phyla, PNAS, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, sea turtles, software, University of Toronto
Yes, that is kind of adorable. It took only a few days for the fish to learn to drive. Source
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Non-Darwinian Adaptive Radiation Proposed

Adaptive Radiation, Amy McDermott, biology, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, cichlids, Daniel Rabosky, Darwinian evolution, Evolution, founder effect, Hawaii, Intelligent Design, Jae Young Choi, Junk DNA, Metrosideros, MIT, Neo-Darwinism, New Zealand, oceanic islands, Ole Seehausen, PNAS, Research, University of Michigan, Whitehead Institute, Yuan Yuan
Is it possible that adaptive radiation is falling out of the Darwin trophy cabinet? A new proposal sounds amenable to intelligent design. Source
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Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

abdomen, Anomalocaris, aphids, arthropods, beetles, Berlin, bioengineers, biology, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, chelicerates, crickets, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, Evolution, flies, gnats, honeybees, Intelligent Design, Marrella, MIT, pill bugs, PNAS, praying mantises, spider-silk, spiders, Stephen Meyer, thorax, trilobites
They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Source
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Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design

Brent Spiner, Darwinism, forensic science, Holly Else, Intelligent Design, Matthew Hutson, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Mind Matters, Nature (journal), Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Caputo, peer-review, PNAS, Robert J. Marks, Silicon Valley, Sleeping Beauty, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starship Troopers, William Dembski
Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should. Source
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Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers

blood pressure, cats, cochlear hair cells, Darwinism, Dogs, Evolution, evolutionary theory, information, Intelligent Design, lobsters, Mitra Hartmann, neuron firings, Nicholas Bush, Northwestern University, PNAS, rabbits, rats, rodents, Sara Solla, sea lions, touch-screen phone, Vg neurons, whiskers, whisking
Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.” Source
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Life Fights Entropy with Intelligent Design

A. E. Wilder-Smith, Albert Weixlbaumer, bacterial flagella motor, Brownian motion, Dominic J. Skinner, entropy, flagellum, footrace, human embryonic kidney cells, Intelligent Design, Jannik Ehrich, John Bechhoefer, Jörn Dunkel, Kevin Thurley, Michael W. Webster, microtubules, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, PNAS, Science (journal), Simon Fraser University, Surajit Chatterjee
Consider: the best minds in science and engineering are trying to approach the capabilities of bacteria. Source
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Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics

"survival of the fittest", alanine, amino acids, Charles Thaxton, code, codons, Darwinian evolution, DNA, double helix, Energy Code, Escherichia coli, Evolution, genetic code, Horst H. Klump, information, Intelligent Design, Jens Völker, Kenneth J. Breslauer, Masayori Inouye, materialists, mind, Molecular Darwinism, natural selection, PNAS, probability, proteins, Quarterly Review of Biophysics, Roger Olsen, Rutgers University, Second Law of Thermodynamics, serine, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, Walter Bradley
Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Source
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“Resolution Revolution”: Intelligent Design, Now at the Atomic Level

adaptive optics, angstroms, atoms, ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, Boston University, Chemistry, Cryo-EM microscopy, Daniel Hammer, diffraction limit, electron microscope, Food and Drug Administration, Intelligent Design, Jed Macosco, Jiulia He, John E. Walker, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Leonhard Möckl, Methods in Molecular Biology, Michael Behe, microglia, microscopy, mitochondria, molecular machines, Nature News and Views, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, neuroscience, Nobel Prize, ophthalmology, optical coherence tomography, optical engineers, PNAS, Protein Science (journal), ribose operon, rotors, Sheng Xiao, Stanford University, W. E. Moerner
Breakthroughs in imaging are allowing scientists to see iconic molecular machines in unprecedented detail. This will be a great boon for design science. Source
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New Research Finds Molecular Machines Are Even More Amazing than Behe Realized

ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, bucket brigade, catalysis, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwinian evolution, dimers, drive shaft, enzymes, FliD proteins, Grotthus mechanism, hook, imaging techniques, Institute of Science and Technology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, John E. Walker, Leonid Sazanov, lipid bilayer, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nature Communications, Nobel Prize, PNAS, Scott Minnich, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, vibrations, water molecules
With better imaging and analysis techniques, details about icons of design are coming into clearer focus. The icons are looking better than ever. Source
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Design on Time — Paley’s Watch Was Inside Him

biological clock, blood pressure, chronotype variation, circadian clock, clocks, Cyanobacteria, Harvard Medical School, imaging tools, Intelligent Design, Japan, jet lag, KaiC, mammalian locomotor activity, Nagoya University, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, neurons, PLOS ONE, PNAS, rats, sleep, suprachiasmatic nucleus, Synechococcus elongatus, University of Illinois, University of Rochester, William Paley
Watches are everywhere on the heath. Look up, look down, look inside; biology runs on time. Source
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