For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Africa, animals, atheists, cellular operations, Christie’s, codes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, digital code, DNA, double helix, Evolution, faith, Francis Crick, genes, genetic isolation, genetics, history, Human Zoos, humans beings, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, James D. Watson, John West, language, Maurice Wilkins, nihilism, Nobel Prize, Plato's Revenge, Race, Racism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, sequence hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, theism
Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Source
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Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

biology, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, chess pieces, Complexity, concertos, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary, double helix, egg, electric cords, embryo, Evolution, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, Intelligent Design, Leonardo da Vinci, Medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know
I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Source
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New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology

amino acids, animation, ATP, biology, Danièle Gadelle, dehydration, DNA, double helix, early Earth, enzyme, Evolution, genomes, homochirality, hydration, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, molecular machines, origin of life, Patrick Forterre, projection, psychology, replication, scientific materialism, supercoiling, topoisomerases, transcription
Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress. Source
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Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics

"survival of the fittest", alanine, amino acids, Charles Thaxton, code, codons, Darwinian evolution, DNA, double helix, Energy Code, Escherichia coli, Evolution, genetic code, Horst H. Klump, information, Intelligent Design, Jens Völker, Kenneth J. Breslauer, Masayori Inouye, materialists, mind, Molecular Darwinism, natural selection, PNAS, probability, proteins, Quarterly Review of Biophysics, Roger Olsen, Rutgers University, Second Law of Thermodynamics, serine, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, Walter Bradley
Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Source
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