Bacterial Flagellum Demonstrates the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Engineering Models

bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, biology, components, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, constraints, Dean Schulz, design logic, Engineering, engineering model, engineering-based models, Evolution, genetic network, hook, Intelligent Design, interrelationships, manufacturing, navigation, propeller, propulsion system, proteins, requirements, transport gate
Dean Schulz investigated the design of the flagellum with a method that could be described as groundbreaking. Source
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What Is Intelligent Design and How Should We Defend It?

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Intelligent design is a scientific theory that holds that many features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause. Source
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Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

amino acids, biology, biopolymers, chirality, denaturation, DNA, Donna Blackmond, Evolution, formamide, glycans, Holy Grail, homochirality, Intelligent Design, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, monomers, natural processes, nucleotides, Occam's Razor, origin of life, polymerization, proteins, RNA, solvents, sugars, toluene, wet/dry cycles, YouTube videos
Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected.  Source
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Recalling Francis Collins’s The Language of God

Bill Clinton, Center for Science & Culture, China, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, David French, ENCODE, Evolution, Faith & Science, Francis Collins, John West, Junk DNA, National Institutes of Health, proteins, Religion News Service, The Language of God, The Origin of Species, theology, vaccinations, Wuhan
President Bill Clinton announced, in a speech Collins helped to write, “we are learning the language in which God created life.” Source
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New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

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The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Source
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End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

biology, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Derek Gatherer, DNA, emergence, Evolution, evolutionary mechanism, Intelligent Design, John Thomas, Michael Behe, Michel Morange, P. A. Braillard, Pam Mantri, proteins, Reductionism, Stephen Meyer, stigmergic teleology, synthetic biology, Systems Biology
A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Source
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Listen: Sneak Preview of New Douglas Axe Intelligent Design Course

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In the full course, Dr. Axe investigates proteins and how they work, the genetic code, gene recruitment, population genetics, natural selection, and much more. Source
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New Article Purports to Help Explain the Origin of the Genetic Code

Alexandra Kühnlein, binary code, Dieter Braun, DNA, early Earth, error threshold, Evolution, genetic code, intelligent agency, Intelligent Design, investigator intervention, James Tour, nucleotides, NUPACK, origin of life, protein enzymes, proteins, RNA, RNA world, Simon Lanzmich
Without all of the described investigator interventions, a system of replicating RNAs could never emerge or even sustain itself. Source
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