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Transcriptional Hierarchies Exhibit Recurring Design Logic and Challenge Evolution

Intelligent Design, Science /

By an unguided process of tinkering, it seems quite implausible that the genes would be appropriately arranged along the chromosome in a manner that corresponds to the timing of their expression. Not only must the necessary genes be organized into a hierarchical transcriptional cascade to ensure proper timing and coordination of assembly, but the specific order of the genes along their respective operons is also significant.

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The Miracles in Acts, and Their Evidential Value

Biblical Reliability, Conversion of Paul, Extrabiblical Corroboration /

The book of Acts recounts various miracles performed by Paul and the other apostles, as well as the deacons Stephen and Philip. If it can be shown that these miracle reports substantially represent the testimony of these individuals, then this is an important aspect of the testimony that must be accounted for.

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Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation

Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Science /

The process of chromosomal condensation is absolutely essential to successful mitotic cell division — that is to say, it is a part of a larger irreducibly complex system. Moreover, the highly condensed mitotic chromosome structures (with sister chromatids joined at the centromere) do not serve a purpose apart from in the context of mitosis. And yet, various components are themselves indispensable for effective chromosome condensation.

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New Paper Examines How the Complexity of Glycan Structures Points to Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design, Science /

A new peer-reviewed paper published by carbohydrate researcher Russell Carlson at the University of Georgia has been published in the journal BioCosmos, which explains the high informational content and complexity of glycans, and why this is best explained on the hypothesis of intelligent design rather than unguided evolutionary processes.

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Early Church Persecution, and its Evidential Value

Biblical Reliability, Evidence for the Resurrection /

There is satisfactory evidence that many professing to be original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives in labours, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone in attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely in consequence of their belief of those accounts; and that they also submitted, from the same motives, to new rules of conduct.

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Recurring Design Logic in Gene Regulation

Intelligent Design, Science /

A feature of biology that has struck me over the years is the phenomenon of recurring design logic, even across systems that do not appear to be related by descent. This is a feature that is quite surprising on the supposition that a mindless process is responsible for life’s origins, but is precisely what we might predict on the hypothesis that a mind played an important role.

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The Cell Division Challenge to Eukaryogenesis

Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Science /

What makes the origins of the eukaryotic cell cycle particularly resistant to evolutionary explanations is that a wide gulf exists between the mechanism of cell division by eukaryotes and that employed by prokaryotic cells — both in terms of the protein components involved, as well as the underlying logic. There is essentially nothing in common between the two systems.

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