The discovery of DNA has transformed our view of biology.  Biology is not just organized chemicals – it is information at work.  One of the surprising discoveries in recent times is that cells can facilitate their own evolution.  Mutations can no longer be assumed to be haphazard accidents – many of them are triggered by biological processes in the cell to aid them in generating responses to environmental cues or generating “hedge” mutations in order to help the population survive catastrophe.

Technical Papers

• Bartlett, Jonathan. “Alternate Mutation Modalities in Models of Population Dynamics.” In Review. Supplemental Data.
• Bartlett, Jonathan. 2024. “An Updated Perspective on Teleonomy.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47(e69).
• Bartlett, Jonathan. 2023. “Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution.” Organon F 30(3):222-254. DOI 10.31577/orgf.2023.30301.
• Bartlett, Jonathan. 2023. “Random with Respect to Fitness or External Selection? An Important but Often Overlooked Distinction.” Acta Biotheoretica 71(2): DOI 10.1007/s10441-023-09464-8. (Published Manuscript | Accepted Manuscript PDF)
• Bartlett, Jonathan. 2020. “Is Active Information Applicable to Biology?” Communications of the Blyth Institute 2(2):44-46.
• Holloway, Eric. 2020. “Tutorial: Bioinformatics Basics.” Communications of the Blyth Institute 2(2):35-38.
• Bartlett, Jonathan. 2020. “Measuring Active Information in Biological Systems.” BIO-Complexity 2020(2):1-11.
• Bartlett, Jonathan. 2020. “Do Mutation Rates Match the Kelly Criterion?” Communications of the Blyth Institute 2(1):31.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2019.  “Implications of Two Opposing Variations of Neutral Theory.”  Communications of the Blyth Institute 1(1):51-52.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2018.  “Intelligent Design and Its Place in the Creation Model.”  Creation Research Society Quarterly 54:48-56.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2017.  “Evolutionary Teleonomy as a Unifying Principle for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.”  BIO-Complexity 2017(2):1-7.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2017.  “Philosophical Shortcomings of Methodological Naturalism and the Path Forward.”  In Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway (eds.), Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies (pp. 13-38).  Broken Arrow, OK: Blyth Institute Press.
• Bartlett, Jonathan and Eric Holloway.  2017.  “Other Non-Naturalistic Methodologies in Modern Practice.”  In Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway (eds.), Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies (pp. 257-268).  Broken Arrow, OK: Blyth Institute Press.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2014.  “Surprising Distinguishing Features Characterizing an Apobaramin”  Presented at Origins 2014 Conference. (Abstract, Slides) 
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2010.  “Estimating Active Information in Adaptive Mutagenesis”   Occasional Papers of the BSG 17:2. (Poster, Slides)
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2010.  “Irreducible Complexity and Relative Irreducible Complexity: Foundations and Applications” Occasional Papers of the BSG 15:1-10.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2010.  “Mutation is Not Random.”  In E. Norbert Smith (ed.), Sacred Cows in Science.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2009.  “Towards a Creationary Classification of Mutations” Answers Research Journal 2:169-174.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2008.  “Statistical and Philosophical Notions of Randomness in Creation Biology” Creation Research Society Quarterly 45(2):91-99.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2008.  “Wolfram’s Complexity Classes, Relative Evolvability, Irreducible Complexity, and Domain-Specific Languages” Occasional Papers of the BSG 11:5.
• Bartlett, Jonathan.  2006.  “Metaprogramming and Genomics” Occasional Papers of the BSG 8:17-18. (Poster, Slides)