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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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.

Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?

_{Emily Reeves
August 8, 2022}

The tree-like pattern from the dataset was not very strong. Of course, if you shuffle it, it looks strong compared to randomness.

Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”

_{Emily Reeves
August 5, 2022}

On Monday, I will look at the consistency of the phylogenetically informative sites for the Baum et al. (2016) paper. Spoiler alert: It looks like design.

I Got Critiqued by YouTuber Gutsick Gibbon

_{Emily Reeves
August 4, 2022}

Erika is pursuing her Master’s of Research in Primate Biology, Behavior and Conservation and is the creator of hundreds of punchy, entertaining YouTube videos.

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 7, 2022}

In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be.

No More Confusion: Three Categories of Biological Redundancy, Simplified

_{Emily Reeves
March 4, 2022}

Rewriting the categories of biological redundancy in terms of function clarifies their purpose and contribution.

How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 3, 2022}

ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful.

Emily Reeves Previews Dallas Science/Faith Conference 2022

_{Emily Reeves
January 17, 2022}

On this ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid sits down with Emily Reeves, one of the speakers for the January 22, 2022, Dallas Science and Faith Conference. The two walk through the lineup of speakers for the conference (Stephen Meyer, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Ray Bohlin, and others), tease some of the talks, and discuss how to join the one-day event live, either in person in the Dallas area or online. For more about the conference, slated for this Saturday, and to sign up, go …

Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2022}

Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son.