27Sep 2022 by Post

Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

American Biology Teacher, biology, Brian Miller, Cell Biology International, cell's, cellular machinery, chicken-and-egg problem, DNA, enzymes, Evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Frank Salisbury, genetic code, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, Jeremy England, molecular machinery, molecular machines, origin of life, physicists, RNA, simplest cell
In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life. Source
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30Jun 2022 by Post

Copper Reveals Its Role in Exploding Plants — and in the Miracle of Man

Angela Hay, awn, biology, Cardamine hirsuta, chaperones, copper, cytochrome C oxidase, enzymes, Ergonium cicutarium, erosion, filaree, fire-making, Geology, hairy bittercress, herbs, homeostatic mechanisms, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design, laccase, Life Sciences, lignin, lignocellulose, Max Planck Institute, metallurgy, metals, Michael Denton, minerals, plants, PNAS, popping cress, prior fitness, seed pods, soil, storksbill, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, zinc
The exploding pods of the popping cress send the plant’s seeds flying in all directions, as far as a meter from the parent. Source
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29Jun 2022 by Post

Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

Arthur Hunt, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, biological adaptations, chloroquine resistance, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, enzymes, Evolution, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), hypercube, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, Jason Rosenhouse, Kenneth Miller, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), Origin of Species, Plasmodium, Plasmodium falciparum, probabilities, The Edge of Evolution, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, The Third Way, University of Chicago
Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Source
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23Mar 2022 by Post

Fact Check: Did University of Tokyo Researchers Explain the Origin of Life?

Darwinian evolution, enzymes, Evolution, Intelligent Design, investigators, molecular machinery, mutations, Nature Communications, Nobel Prize, nucleotides, origin of life, parasites, press release, Qb virus, replicase, replication, Ribosome, RNA, Ryo Mizuuchi, translational machinery, tRNA, University of Tokyo
The research paper avers, “These results support the capability of molecular replicators to spontaneously develop complexity through Darwinian evolution.” Source
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07Mar 2022 by Post

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

Bacillus, Bacillus subtilis, beauty, biological redundancy, biological systems, biology, catalytic converters, cellular cost, design triangulation, duplicate genes, E. coli, elegance, Elizabeth Mueller, environment variability, enzymes, Evolution, fine-tuning, fitness, function, gene expression, genetic information, Intelligent Design, keyless entry systems, laboratory conditions, maintenance, Neo-Darwinism, optimality, periplasmic enzymes, precision, proteins, responsive backup circuits, robustness, speakers, sporulation, Stanford University, storage, transmission
In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Source
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10Feb 2022 by Post

For Darwin Day, Topoisomerase Webinar With Biochemist Joe Deweese

amino acid sequences, animation, biology, Casey Luskin, cell duplication, Center for Science & Culture, Charles Darwin, chromosomes, complex and specified information, Darwin Day, DNA, enzymes, Events, Freed-Hardeman University, Intelligent Design, Joe Deweese, Life Sciences, molecular machines, replication, topoisomerase II, transcription, YouTube videos
This webinar will premiere a new molecular machine animation on the topoisomerase enzyme. Source
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12May 2021 by Post

Credulity Is the Soil for Darwin’s Tree

acetyl coenzyme-A, amino acids, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, anaerobic bacteria, Communications Biology, Darwin-skeptics, E. coli, enolase, enzymes, Evolution, Frontiers in Microbiology, FtsH, FtsY, glucogenesis, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, Heinrich Heine University, Joana C. Xavier, last bacterial common ancestor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LBCA, LUCA, miracles, naturalism, phosphoglycerate kinase, Powerball, pyruvate kinase, ribozymes, spores, sporulation, transfer RNA, triosephosphate isomerase, William Martin
The secret is to restrict one’s explanations for life to unguided natural events. Once that decision has been made, everything else flows deductively from it. Source
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10Apr 2021 by Post

Experiments on “Self-Replicating” RNA Indicate the Need for Intelligent Agency in Life’s Origin

enzymes, Evolution, experimental conditions, experiments, information, Intelligent Design, investigator interference, investigator intervention, nucleotide sequences, nucleotides, origin of life, polymerase, replication, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, temperature variations
Any evolving system of RNAs would quickly include almost exclusively RNAs that performed no biologically useful actions. Source
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