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Flagellum Described in High-Performance Lingo

April 4, 2005

The bacterial flagellum, a virtual icon of the intelligent design movement, has been studied by many researchers, notably Howard Berg of Harvard, an expert on chemotaxis (the attraction of bacteria to chemical stimuli). Berg was interviewed in Current Biology1 and talked like a race car mechanic when discussing this molecular machine, though he is not […]

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ID in the News

March 30, 2005

PBS aired a segment on the anti-Darwinism controversy in the schools Monday (see PBS transcript). Ken Ham and Stephen Meyer presented arguments for criticizing Darwin, while Eugenie Scott and others defended exclusive evolutionary teaching. The Discovery Institute blog Evolution News analyzed the 14:32 minute segment, complaining that 90 minutes of Meyer’s interview received only 30 […]

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NAS President Calls on Scientists to Defend Darwinism

March 24, 2005

The man who described a cell as “a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines” (see 02/10/2003 entry) now wants his fellow scientists to oppose efforts to attribute this factory to design. Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of […]

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Agnosticism Loses: Arkansas Science Must Be Atheistic

March 18, 2005

Updated 05/08/2005: “What I’m trying to do here is not to deal directly with the existence or non-existence of God, but restore to science the agnostic viewpoint that there could be or could not be rather than the dogmatism that actually currently exists… that absolutely precludes the existence of God.” These were the words of […]

Cell Biology

The Future of Biology: Reverse Engineering

March 14, 2005

Just as an engineer can model the feedback controls required in an autopilot system for an aircraft, the biologist can construct models of cellular networks to try to understand how they work. “The hallmark of a good feedback control design is a resulting closed loop system that is stable and robust to modeling errors and […]

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Bacterial Engineering On Par With Higher Life

March 11, 2005

Bacteria aren’t the simple life-forms microbiologists used to envision, writes Zemer Gitai in Cell.1 Recent advances have demonstrated that bacterial cells have an exquisitely organized and dynamic subcellular architecture. Like their eukaryotic counterparts, bacteria employ a full complement of cytoskeletal proteins, localize proteins and DNA to specific subcellular addresses at specific times, and use intercellular […]

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Darwinists Dig In Heels Against I.D.

March 7, 2005

“We aren’t going to convince them and they aren’t going to convince us,” said Vittorio Maestro of Natural History magazine, quoted at the end of a piece entitled, “US scientists battle over challenge to Darwinism” in ABC News Online. The article gave quite a bit of space to quotes by Michael Behe and Jonathan Wells, […]

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Visual Aid: Chance or Design?

March 1, 2005

A TV commercial for the Honda Accord has been circulating around the net as a popular download (see Steel City’s Finest). It shows the parts of a car, without human intervention, interacting in strange ways like a Rube Goldberg device, resulting in a finished car rolling off the ramp. Garrison Keillor adds the punch line, […]

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ID. Article Makes N.Y. Times

February 7, 2005

Michael Behe got a full-length column in the New York Times (reproduced at Discovery.com) to present the case for intelligent design. The EvolutionNews blog says it is the second most emailed article from that day’s edition, and asks, “Who says there’s no controversy?” Which side wants to air the debate? Which side wants to shut […]

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Editorials Lukewarm to ID, but Not as Hot to Darwin

January 31, 2005

A subtle shift seems to be taking place in media coverage of intelligent-design controversies in school boards across the country. Darwinists used to be the unchallenged kings of the hill. Alternatives, whether creationism or intelligent design, were disqualified before they reached the starting gate. It also used to be “open season” on anti-Darwinists. No vituperative […]

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Newspaper Editorials Lead Revolt Against King Charles

January 24, 2005

Some columnists and editorial writers are gaining boldness to attack the Darwin-only rule in science education. Some examples: Senator Rick Santorum (R., Pennsylvania) in The Morning Call advocated a balanced approach to teaching evolution. Brian Fahling in The Union Leader took up the charge to defend Georgia’s “critical thinking” stickers (see 01/13/2005 entry). Neal McCluskey, […]

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Dover, PA Administrators Will Read ID Statement

January 11, 2005

In a compromise aimed at relieving recalcitrant teachers, the Dover, Pennsylvania school board decided that administrators will read a four-paragraph statement about evolution and intelligent design (ID) to high school students for any teachers that want to “opt out” of the new policy (see 11/04/2004 headline). The decision, according to the York Daily Record, was […]

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ID Blog Opens

January 5, 2005

The Discovery Institute, an Intelligent Design think-tank in Seattle, has initiated a new blog, Evolution News & Views, that analyzes how evolution is presented in the media (see mission statement). One of the first entries concerns how a PBS station in New Mexico censored the showing of the film Unlocking the Mystery of Life after […]

Amazing Facts

Cellular UPS Gets Right Packages to Chloroplasts

January 1, 2005

If all your packages were sent correctly over the holidays, consider the job a plant cell has getting 3000 proteins into a chloroplast. Mistakes are not just inconvenient. They can be deadly, or at least bring photosynthesis to a halt. To guarantee proper delivery of components, plant cells have a remarkable shipping system, described in […]

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Debate: Should Schools Teach the Controversy Over Darwinism?

December 14, 2004

The San Francisco Chronicle published a written debate between Stanford evolutionist Robert Sapolsky and Discovery Institute fellows Stephen Meyer and John Angus Campbell. The subject is whether schools should “teach the controversy” over evolution. Both articles can be read on the Discovery Institute website. Meanwhile, the ACLU is suing another school district, this […]

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