Emily Reeves

Emily Reeves is a biochemist, metabolic nutritionist, and aspiring systems biologist. Her doctoral studies were completed at Texas A&M University in Biochemistry and Biophysics. Emily is currently an active clinician for metabolic nutrition and nutritional genomics at Nutriplexity. She enjoys identifying and designing nutritional intervention for subtle inborn errors of metabolism. She is also working with fellows of Discovery Institute and the greater scientific community to promote integration of engineering and biology. She spends her weekends adventuring with her husband, brewing kombucha, and running near Puget Sound.

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Designed Evolution? The Evidence Isn’t There

_{Emily Reeves
March 4, 2024}

Can intelligent design and evolution work together? It's an intriguing idea that is welcomed by some, but does the scientific evidence support it? On this ID The Future, host Casey Luskin speaks with Dr. Emily Reeves to discuss her contribution to a recent paper critiquing theologian Dr. Rope Kojonen's proposal that mainstream evolutionary biology and intelligent design have worked in harmony to produce the diversity of life we see on earth. This is part of a series of interviews on this topic. Dig deeper with more resources and episodes at idthefuture.com.

Paper Digest: Are Trees Well Designed?

_{Emily Reeves
January 25, 2024}

Consistent with Stuart Burgess’s general strategy, this paper is an excellent example of how ID research can be applied in a scientific discipline.

Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price

_{Emily Reeves
January 9, 2024}

Rope Kojonen sees convergence as evidence that laws of form "play a significant role" in helping evolutionary processes cluster around similar solutions.

Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?

_{Emily Reeves
January 4, 2024}

Biologist Michael Denton's structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things.

Could Finely Tuned Initial Conditions Create Biological Organisms?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2024}

Theologian Rope Kojonen, in an attempt to wed design and evolution, allows for this interpretation in his recent book.

Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2024}

Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems.

Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology

_{Emily Reeves
January 2, 2024}

The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible.

Paper Digest: Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance

_{Emily Reeves
December 19, 2023}

The amazing design structures in organisms provide engineers with inspiring templates for creating better products.

Paper Digest: A Robot Is Built Using Cockroach Biomimicry

_{Emily Reeves
October 26, 2023}

The understanding of what it takes to build complex systems sheds light on the causal hurdles that would be necessary for evolutionary processes to overcome.

Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology

_{Emily Reeves
October 25, 2023}

Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones.

Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System

_{Emily Reeves
October 11, 2023}

This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting.

Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

_{Emily Reeves
October 3, 2023}

Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19.

Paper Digest: Application of Animal Forms in Auto Styling

_{Emily Reeves
September 29, 2023}

The preeminence of design in nature and the utility of mimicking natural designs is a concept championed by the intelligent design community.

Blood Viscosity and Freezing Temperatures — A Titanic Problem

_{Emily Reeves
June 22, 2023}

Blood viscosity is the technical reason why Jack froze in less than 23 minutes, but icefish can survive for 15 years in water of a freezing temperature.

New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU

_{Emily Reeves
May 2, 2023}

Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection.

An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

_{Emily Reeves
February 23, 2023}

Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life.

Without Hemoglobin, How Do Icefish Survive the Cold? By Design

_{Emily Reeves
November 1, 2022}

Icefish, aka the family Channichthydiae, survive at 0oC in the Southern Ocean by maintaining blood viscosity at the set point of 3.27 centipoise.

Emily Reeves: The Systems Biology Revolution

_{Emily Reeves
October 19, 2022}

On today’s ID the Future, biochemist and metabolic nutritionist Emily Reeves tells the story of the systems biology revolution, why it is intelligent-design friendly, and why it is overturning Darwinian reductionism. This presentation was taped at the 2022 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith in the greater Philadelphia area, which was jointly sponsored by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and Westminster Theological …

Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science! Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge

_{Emily Reeves
August 10, 2022}

What ID proponents are encouraging in the greater scientific community is honesty about the fact that both design and ancestry can create genetic similarity.

Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model

_{Emily Reeves
August 9, 2022}

The fact that known natural biological processes can produce non-tree-like patterns is problematic not for ID proponents but for proponents of common ancestry.