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No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel for “Junk DNA”

Jan 1, 2025 | evolutionnews.org | Casey Luskin

What’s the biggest science story of the year? My vote goes to the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for the discovery of function for a type of “junk DNA” that produces microRNA (miRNA), a crucial molecule involved in gene regulation. That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. On that, ID has been vindicated over and over again, now by the Nobel Committee.
New Study Triggers Key Origin of Life Questions

Dec 3, 2024 | idthefuture.com | Casey Luskin

Episode 1988 With Andrew McDiarmid Guest(s) Casey Luskin Duration 00:20:19 Download Audio File (27.9 mb) Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print https://op3.dev/e/idthefuture.com/podcast-player/42680/1988.mp3 Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:20:19 | Did life on earth spring up early and easily through evolutionary processes? Or does the emergence of life represent another infusion of information into the biosphere that is best explained by intelligent design? On this...
Casey Luskin: The Origin and Uniqueness of Humans

Nov 19, 2024 | idthefuture.com | Casey Luskin

Episode 1982 With Andrew McDiarmid Guest(s) Casey Luskin Duration 00:31:46 Download Audio File (43.6 mb) Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print https://op3.dev/e/idthefuture.com/podcast-player/42658/1982.mp3 Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:31:46 | Survive. Reproduce. Repeat. Is that all we’re here for? Some people make this claim, including noted evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins. But does it match up with the scientific evidence? On this ID The...
How to Defend Intelligent Design Like a Boss

Oct 28, 2024 | idthefuture.com | Casey Luskin

Episode 1973 With Andrew McDiarmid Guest(s) Casey Luskin Duration 00:31:55 Download Audio File (43.8 mb) Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print https://chrt.fm/track/G42895/idthefuture.com/podcast-player/42621/1973.mp3 Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:31:55 | How much do you know about intelligent design? How would you define the term? And are you prepared to defend intelligent design to friends, family, or associates who may be critical of the theory? On this...
Colleague, Mentor, and Friend: Jonathan Wells

Sep 30, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | Casey Luskin

Last Monday morning we had just finished our weekly staff meeting when John West came to my office door. The look on his face suggested something wasn’t right. He had just spoken with Jonathan Wells’s wife. Our longtime colleague had passed away. Jonathan was a highly accomplished scholar. But he was much more than that. For me, as for many of us, he was also a mentor and a friend.
Lee Spetner’s Nonrandom Evolutionary Hypothesis

Aug 21, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | Casey Luskin

Editor’s note: We were saddened to learn of the passing of Lee Spetner, MIT-trained physicist and author of Not by Chance and The Evolution Revolution. Dr. Spetner was 91 years old and lived in Jerusalem, where Evolution News staff enjoyed the opportunity to meet and dine with him. Baruch dayan ha’emet. While wishing comfort to his loved ones, we will offer several republished articles paying tribute to his significant contributions to the evolution debate.
James Shapiro: ID “Has a Valid Point”

Aug 15, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | Casey Luskin

Earlier this year, the National Association of Scholars recently published an interesting issue of their journal Academic Questions. It’s on a special theme, “The State of Evolution,” and it includes many articles that are worth reading.
Study: Geological Habitability Parameters

Aug 14, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | Casey Luskin

Looking forward to the August 27 release of the new edition of The Privileged Planet, which you can pre-order now, we’ve been considering issues of habitability — on Mars (here and here), and on the moons Enceladus and Titan.
How “Junk” DNA Got Its Function

Aug 9, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | Casey Luskin

Recently I wrote about various functions that have been identified for “junk” DNA. Of course, many functions have been discovered for the supposed “junk,” but these form a special case where diseases played a role. How are they being identified? It’s because when those functions go wrong, diseases result. Most evolutionists aren’t bothered by such findings of individual functions for junk DNA. They just claim that occasionally junk gets co-opted to do something useful, or even vital to our health.
“A Lot of Evolution”: LUCA Required 2,600 Genes

Aug 8, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | Casey Luskin

Recently I wrote about a study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution which found that the origin of life on Earth “required a surprisingly short interval of geologic time.” But I didn’t mention that the study reported the astounding complexity they inferred must have been present in that life — namely the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) of all living organisms.