Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2023: Another “Vestigial” Organ Has “Absolutely Critical” Functions

biology, blood, blood clotting, bone marrow, chickens, development, duck-billed platypuses, eggs, embryo, Evolution, evolutionary interpretations, function, human embryo, immune cells, Intelligent Design, kidneys, liver, multitasker, Muzlifah Haniffa, organ functions, PNAS, Sanger Institute, Science (journal), Science Alert, toxins, vestigial organs, Wellcome, yolk sac
Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations. Source
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Ahead of New Book Edition, Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference

Amazonia, beavers, Crazy Horse Memorial, earthworks, Emilio Guirado, Face on Mars, fairy circles, forests, Garamantes, Gutzon Borglum, Harvard University, Henry Standing Bear, Intelligent Design, Jackson Pollock, Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Korczak Ziolkowski, LIDAR, Life Sciences, Man in the Moon, Mount Rushmore, New Scientist, New York University, North Africa, Orion the Hunter, PNAS, Pre-Columbian era, Rube Goldberg, Science (journal), The Design Inference, Tom Metcalfe, University of Portsmouth, V. Peripato, William Dembski, Winston Ewert, Xiaoli Dong
Designed features can hide in plain sight. A closer look can sometimes reveal the intentional acts of a mind. Source
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Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”

autism, binding kinetics, biology, cancer, Crohn’s disease, DNA, eukaryotes, Evolution, fine-tuning, gene expression, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, heaters, human genome, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, light dimmer, motor speed, motors, mutations, nucleotides, ovens, phenotypes, power control, proteins, regulatory elements, repetitive elements, rheostat, schizophrenia, Science (journal), Short Tandem Repeats, STRs, transcription factor
Rheostats are “often used as power control devices, for example to control light intensity (dimmer), speed of motors, heaters, and ovens.” Source
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Another “Vestigial” Organ Turns Out to Have “Absolutely Critical” Functions: The Human Yolk Sac

biology, blood, blood clotting, bone marrow, chickens, development, duck-billed platypuses, eggs, embryo, Evolution, evolutionary interpretations, function, human embryo, immune cells, Intelligent Design, kidneys, liver, multitasker, Muzlifah Haniffa, organ functions, PNAS, Science (journal), Science Alert, toxins, Uncategorized, vestigial organs, Wellcome Sanger Institute, yolk sac
Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations. Source
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Introducing the Unknome, Biology’s Black Box

23andMe, Advanced Biology, Alireza Mashaghi, biochemistry, biology, central dogma, Complexity, DNA transcripts, genetics, genome, genomics, Harvard University, information, Intelligent Design, interactome, Leiden University, Life Sciences, metabolites, metabolome, molecular biology, mouse, neurons, omics, protein unfolding, proteins, proteomics, Public Library of Science, Science (journal), transcriptome, transcriptomics, unknome, Unknown Genome Project
Biology is becoming overwhelmed by new vistas of dynamic complexity. Attempts to get a handle on this complexity has ushered in the era of Omics. Source
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Cell Vesicles Wear Sophisticated Coats, Defying Unguided Evolutionary Explanations

biology, clathrin-coated vesicle, Coat Protein 1, Coat Protein 2, coat proteins, conformations, EMBL Heidelberg, endoplasmic reticulum, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Evolution, geodesic dome, Golgi apparatus, hexagons, humans, Intelligent Design, invagination, Latin, lattice, pentagons, protein coats, proteins, Science (journal), self-driving cars, triads, triskelion, vesicles, yeast
These coats, and the accessory proteins that build them, attach them to vesicles, and disassemble them, exhibit irreducible complexity. Source
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Should We Give Nature “Rights”? A Premier Science Journal Says Yes

algae, Culture & Ethics, duties, earthquake faults, ecosystem services, Evolution, experts, glaciers, human beings, ideologues, lawsuits, legal standing, legislatures, lion prides, Moon, nature, nature rights, oceans, ownership, right to evolve, rights, rock outcroppings, Science (journal), science journals, scientists, swamps, wokeness
The text is too long to present here, so I will give one example: the “right to evolve.” The authors note that “evolution” has many meanings. Source
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New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

Cartorhynchus, cetaceans, Current Biology, Cymbospondylus youngorum, Darwinian gradualism, dolphins, Early Eocene, Evolution, Fossil Hill, fossil record, Frontiers in Earth Science, Günter Bechly, ichthyosaur, land mammals, Mesozoic, Neo-Darwinism, Nevada, New Scientist, Pakicetus, paleontology, Permian-Triassic extinction, porpoises, Science (journal), Sclerocormus, Tethys Sea, whales
This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model. Source
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