Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

brainstem, cardiopulmonary arrest, cell membrane, cell's, chemical concentration, chemicals, death, diffusion, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, extracellular fluid, extraterrestrial life, Genetica, Google AI, Günter Bechly, hospice, information, Intelligent Design, intracellular fluid, just-so stories, liquid water, Medicine, molecular machines, multicellular organism, neurons, osmosis, potassium ions, protein, sodium, sodium ions, sodium-potassium pump, Steve Laufmann, The Extracellular Space (series), The Wonder of Water, water, Your Designed Body
The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Source
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Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function

Alex Holehouse, AlphaFold, antibiotics, ATP synthase, biophysicists, botanis, Brownian motion, Caltech, car jacks, cell's, conformations, cytoplasm, Duke University, electrostatic conditions, eric hedin, Gabriella Heller, Intelligent Design, intrinsically disordered proteins, kinesin, Life Sciences, Maxwell’s demon, MIT, molecular machines, noncoding RNAs, nucleus, pollen grains, proteins, Robert Brown, Robert Shedinger, Scotsmen, socket wrenches, solubility, The Scientist, Washington University
In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes. Source
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Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

Anthropic Principle, biology, cell's, devolution, earth, Evolution, Fire-Maker, fossil record, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Witt, Michael Denton, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, scientific discovery, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet
The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Source
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An Astonishing Life-Friendly Coincidence: The Properties of the Nonmetal Atoms

advanced life, amine, Atheism, biochemistry, biology, carbon, carboxyl, cell's, Charles Tanford, covalent bonds, environmental fitness, hydrogen, hydrophilic force, hydrophobic force, hydroxyl, Intelligent Design, Michael Denton, nitrogen, oxygen, periodic table of elements, Physics, Earth & Space, proteins, teleological arguments, The Miracle of the Cell, theism, universe
It is well established that there are far more ways in which the universe might have been that are non-conducive to life than there are life-friendly ways. Source
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Metals: From Stars to Cells 

atomic weight, battery storage, cell's, civilization, crust-mantel boundary, dumb luck, earth, Earth’s crust, electrical wiring, foresight, fossils, fuel cells, Intelligent Design, interstellar space, iron, Jupiter, mantle, metallic ores, metals, meteoric bombardment, neutron capture, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, platinum, Saturn, silver, solar panels, stars, Stone Age, supernova, thorium, toxicity, uranium, Wealth
Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus. Source
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Listen: Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley

Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Carbon Valley, cell's, Crossway, Douglas Axe, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, molecular biologists, natural selection, Podcast, random mutation, Silicon Valley, smartphone, Stephen Meyer, Technology, Theistic Evolution (book)
“Nobody doubts that natural selection and random mutation is a biological process. What we doubt is that they can generate fundamentally new forms of life.” Source
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