Bad Designs

Should We Expect Efficiency Inside the Cell?

May 13, 2022

One of my favorite planes is the SR-71 Blackbird—largely because of its extraordinary performance abilities. Even with a weight of around 100,000 pounds, the...

Design

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Endogenous Viral Elements (EVEs) Help Wasps to Parasitize

October 20, 2021

“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within...

Biology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Complex Protein Biogenesis Hints at Intelligent Design

June 13, 2016

TOM (translocase of the outer membrane) and TIM (translocase of the inner membrane) function as biomolecular machines that operate in tandem to import newly...

Design

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Wisdom Teeth Reflect the Creator’s Foresight

February 1, 2012

Skeptics often point to human wisdom teeth as an example of a useless human body part. But a new study challenges this evolutionary account.

Design

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Pseudogene Decoy Reveals Hidden Evidence for Design

July 7, 2010

Throughout history, heads of state, politicians, and military leaders have used political decoys to distract attention away from them and afford them some protection....

Design

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

A Couple of Tasty Morsels

May 21, 2008

A sampling of new research uncovers more function for junk DNA, undermines one of the best arguments for biological evolution

Design

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Junk DNA: A Problem for the Evolutionary Paradigm?

December 5, 2007

New Discoveries Raise Questions about Molecular Evolution One of the most significant challenges to the Christian faith comes from the problem of evil. If God...

Biology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Junk DNA Regulates Gene Expression

September 12, 2007

Junk DNA Plays an Important Role in Development My wife enjoys looking for antiques (and, to my horror, buying them.) For Amy, antiques are priceless...

Biology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Dinosaur Genome Size Estimates: Lagerstatten of Design

July 5, 2007

An exceptional paper published a few months ago in Nature provides the first-ever estimates of genome sizes for dinosaurs (even though there is no...

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Is Junk DNA Evidence for Biological Evolution?

May 3, 2007

Both Christians and skeptics alike expect superior designs to exist throughout nature if, indeed, the all-powerful, all-knowing Creator described in the Bible made the...

Design

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

30% Inefficiency by Design

April 1, 2001

Cells use a highly wasteful process when producing proteins. Roughly 30 percent of all newly synthesized proteins must be degraded (broken down) by the...

Design

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Yet Another Use for “Junk” DNA

July 1, 2000

A team of scientists from Case Western Reserve (CWRU) School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, has developed convincing circumstantial evidence for yet another function...

Biology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read