Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma

amino acids, bacteria, bacterial cell division, bacterial cell wall, binary fission, biology, cell wall, cleavage, Evolution, foresight, glycosyltransferases, Gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Mycoplasma, natural selection, nisin, osmotic pressure, penicillin, penicillin-binding proteins, pentapeptide, peptides, peptidoglycan, peptidoglycan precursors, re-synthesis, self-replication, transpeptidases
Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate. Source
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Appreciating Bird Mimicry and the Other Exceptional, Designed Talents

Arctic terns, bird mimicry, birds, brain, budgerigars, camera rotation, Clover, cockatiels, combat aircraft, Current Biology, drones, Duke University, Evolution, flight recordings, hummingbird, Intelligent Design, keas, Live Science, lovebirds, lyrebird, Medical Xpress, migration, mimicry, mockingbird, Neuroscience & Mind, newlyweds, odor map, odors, parakeets, parrots, phytoplankton, PLOS ONE, salmon, smells, stabilization, starlings, vocabulary, vocal apparatus, wind directions, zoologists
Let the reader enjoy the 350+ word vocabulary of Clover, alleged to be the best talking parrot in the world.  Source
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Cell Vesicles Wear Sophisticated Coats, Defying Unguided Evolutionary Explanations

biology, clathrin-coated vesicle, Coat Protein 1, Coat Protein 2, coat proteins, conformations, EMBL Heidelberg, endoplasmic reticulum, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Evolution, geodesic dome, Golgi apparatus, hexagons, humans, Intelligent Design, invagination, Latin, lattice, pentagons, protein coats, proteins, Science (journal), self-driving cars, triads, triskelion, vesicles, yeast
These coats, and the accessory proteins that build them, attach them to vesicles, and disassemble them, exhibit irreducible complexity. Source
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Origin of Life: Cambridge Astrochemist Paul Rimmer Analyzes the Tour-Farina Debate

amino acids, Asphalt Paradox, assumptions, astrochemists, Cambridge University, Capturing Christianity, chemical evolution, Darwinian evolution, Dave Farina, early Earth, Evolution, experiments, Intelligent Design, James Tour, John Sutherland, origin of life, Podcast, Probability Paradox, RNA, RNA world, Steven Benner
The differing perspectives of Tour and Rimmer result from the differences in their starting assumptions. Source
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Postcard from São Paulo: Intelligent Design Sung to a New Tune in Brazil

Adauto Lourenço, Ann Gauger, atheists, Brazil, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Brazilian Society for Intelligent Design, Brazilian Society of Intelligent Design, debates, Doubts About Darwin, Douglas Axe, Enézio de Almeida Filho, English, epigenetics, Evolution, fine-tuning, Fomos Planejados, Heleno Hauer, ID Bird, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Juan Manuel Torres, Kelson Mota, Luiz Felipe Pondé, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Philip Johnson, Portuguese, Ricardo Marques, São Paulo, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, teoria do design inteligente, Tom Woodward, William Dembski
The theme of the conference was familiar to us, but I’d like to think that we’ve heard it sung to a new tune in more ways than one.  Source
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With Becket Cook, David Berlinski Discusses Speech as a Problem for Darwin, and More

animal life, animals, Becket Cook, Bible, communication, Darwinism, David Berlinski, discontinuity, Dogs, Evolution, externalization, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, humans, Jesuits, Ovid, pets, Science After Babel
Dog owners know that to look into your dog’s eyes is often to see that the dog has something he wishes to say but lacks the “machinery for externalization.” Source
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The Design of the Seminal Fluid and Sperm Capacitation

acrosome, antibodies, ATP, capacitation, cilia, clotting factors, contraceptives, egg, egg membrane, enzymes, Evolution, fibrin, flagellum, foresight, fructose, head, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, liquefaction, male infertility, Medicine, middle piece, non-hormonal contraceptives, reproductive tract, semen, seminal fluid, seminal vesicles, serine proteases, sperm cells, zona pellucida
There is no cause in the universe that is known to have such a capacity of foresight other than intelligent design. Source
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