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Denyse O'Leary
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March 9, 2022
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Researchers: Some genes are unique to humans

Denyse O'Leary
March 9, 2022
Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
One of the faculty advisors is Nathan Lents, known to many readers as the author of a book, Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, claiming that humans are poorly designed. Perhaps we will soon hear that these unique, de novo genes were poorly designed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 23, 2022
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Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Researcher: Viruses are “smart” but the human immune system is smarter

Denyse O'Leary
February 23, 2022
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
"Viruses are very smart, that's what I love to say," Muller says. "They have lots of strategies to stick around, and they don't do a lot of damage for a very long time, because that's one way to hide from the immune system. It’s becoming harder for researchers to claim that there is no intelligence in nature. That’s probably why so many of them are embracing panpsychism. They want a way to include intelligence in nature without an intelligence outside nature. It won’t work but at least it makes more sense in relation to the evidence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 23, 2022
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Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Mutations and macroevolution: The Central Dogma of biology turns out to be… unsupported?

Denyse O'Leary
February 23, 2022
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
Meanwhile, in the United States, and doubtless in many other places, righteous science activists could probably get a court order against anyone teaching in a publicly funded school that evidence for macroevolution is missing. The fact that it is missing is an Unfact, so to speak. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 26, 2022
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Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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It just so happens that essential genes are protected from mutations

Denyse O'Leary
January 26, 2022
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
At The Scientist: Monroe and his colleagues found evidence of specific epigenetic characteristics such as cytosine methylation that prevent mutations from occurring in those regions, not unlike protective barriers. These structures and the variability in mutation rates within a single organism’s genome, Monroe says, suggest that “evolution created mechanisms that changed how evolution works.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 20, 2021
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Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Protein tidies cells like sorting a kitchen drawer…

Denyse O'Leary
November 20, 2021
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
At ScienceDaily: "Each compartment created by a lamin acts like a kitchen utensil drawer, keeping knives, forks and spoons easy to access, and more rarely used items like serving pieces out of the way until needed," Reddy says. (And the high information level needed for all that came into existence randomly, of course, just like kitchen drawers and utensils… Which makes sense if you buy the Darwinian approach to consciousness, which treats it as an illusion (whose?) So tidiers and tidying are random too… The people who built up Darwinism decades ago probably didn’t expect to find this stuff. ) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 10, 2021
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Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Five more species of bacteria use alternate genetic codes

Denyse O'Leary
November 10, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
At The Scientist: “The genetic code has been set in stone for 3 billion years,” study coauthor Yekaterina Shulgina, a Harvard University graduate student in systems biology, tells The Scientist. “The fact that some organisms have found a way to change it is really fascinating to me. Changing the genetic code requires changing ancient, important molecules like tRNAs that are so fundamental to how biology works.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2021
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Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Researchers: Unusual island life forms may have been genetically pre-coded to vary

Denyse O'Leary
November 1, 2021
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Plants
"Choi et al., publishing in PNAS, have proposed a very un-Darwinian account of how “spectacular adaptive radiations” occur on oceanic islands such as Hawaii. This has been a “paradox of evolutionary biology,” they admit. Maybe the diversity is an outworking of “ancient polymorphisms” of ancestors with a rich gene pool." As a hypothesis, it has everything going for it but Darwinism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 25, 2021
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Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Some at-your-fingertips stats on human–chimp similarity

Denyse O'Leary
October 25, 2021
Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Casey Luskin: "many non-coding sequences are highly dissimilar, and there are sequences of the human and chimp genomes that are so different that they can’t be aligned for comparison. For example, there are some parts of our genome, such as the human y chromosome, that are radically different from the chimp genome." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 23, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Science
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At Evolution News: Three stunners challenge traditional Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
October 23, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Science
At ENST: Scientists at Flinders University in Australia found that our DNA spreads up to a meter around us without even touching anything. We’re leaving breadcrumbs of genetic code everywhere we go! Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 15, 2021
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Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Finding re endangered snakes is the opposite of classic theory (plus some interesting snake evolution news)

Denyse O'Leary
October 15, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
A friend who knows the scene writes: First, their findings run counter to classic theory with respect to depression caused by inbreeding. Second, no beneficial mutations are discussed, only benign ones, and then deleterious mutations of varying degrees. Much as in Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 14, 2021
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'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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A 2010 Oxford U Press book on “unintelligent design” seems so dated now

Denyse O'Leary
October 14, 2021
'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design
Now that the very concept of “junk DNA” is being officially retired, this all seems pretty stale. Note: Well yes, there is still Nathan Lents and Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes: Still wrong about sinuses but still writing about them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 2, 2021
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Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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On the preprint server: Human micro proteins that sprang from nothing

Denyse O'Leary
October 2, 2021
Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Researchers: " Given their short length it is plausible that some of these functional microproteins have recently originated entirely de novo from non-coding sequence. Here we test the possibility that de novo gene birth can produce microproteins that are functional 'out-of-the-box'. " So is everybody a creationist now but some people are in denial about it? Read More ›