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30May 2022 by Post

2022 YouTube Film Festival: The Workhorse of the Cell

animation, Be a Movie Producer, cargo, cell's, cellular materials, Center for Science & Culture, Discovery Institute, film festival, globular heads, Intelligent Design, kinesin, Life Sciences, microengineering, molecular machines, The Workhorse of the Cell, YouTube videos

Kinesins have two feet, or "globular heads," that literally walk, one foot over another. Source

28May 2022 by Post

2022 YouTube Film Festival: Secrets of the Cell

bacteria, biology, bugs, bullets, Center for Science & Culture, Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Michael Behe, microbes, navigation, plastic waste, superheroes, YouTube videos

Dr. Behe showcases bacteria with their own navigation systems, microbes that eat plastic waste, and microscopic bugs that shoot 60 molecular “bullets” a second. Source

13May 2022 by Post

Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?

Abe Weintraub, chloroplasts, Current Biology, David Wolpert, Evolution, Francis Bacon, Heidelberg University, heterochromatin, information flow, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, jumping genes, Junk DNA, kinesin, Life Sciences, mechanical philosophy, Nobel Prize, nuclear membrane, open reading frame, Penn State News, Prime Mover, proteins, Ribosome, Robert Boyle, robotics, Rockefeller University, Salk Institute, Santa Fe Institute, Steinway pianos, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University, Willaim Dembski, William Paley

We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined. Source

03May 2022 by Post

Fact Check: Hawaiian Silverswords Fail the Species Pair Challenge

Argyroxiphium, Arthur G. Hunt, Arthur Hunt, articulated legs, Basilosaurus, bilaterian animals, biology, central nervous system, cichlid fish, compound eyes, Darwinists, dog breeds, Dubautia, Dubautia waialealae, Dunning-Kruger effect, Ediacaran organisms, Evolution, Evolution News, exoskeleton, ferrets, fossil record, gut system, Hawaiian Silverswords, honeycreepers, Joe Felsenstein, John Harshman, Lake Malawi, Life Sciences, Matthew Dickau, molecular clock, mouth parts, no true Scotsman, otters, Pakicetus, Panda's Thumb, Peaceful Science, phenotypic plasticity, Puck Mendelssohn, reading comprehension, Rumraket, Rusophycus, species pair challenge, TimeTree.org, trace fossils, University of Kentucky, Wilkesia, Young Earth Creationists

Even though the differences appear superficially striking, they do not involve any novel body plans (i.e., no new proteins, new tissues, or new organs). Source

26Apr 2022 by Post

Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang’”

Avalon explosion, biology, Evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, placental mammals, Podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), Triassic explosion, universal common ancestry

He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants. Source

20Apr 2022 by Post

Charles Darwin’s “Intelligent Design”

Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Bridgewater Treatises, British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, British Quarterly Review, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, London Review, M. J. Berkeley, natural history, natural selection, natural theology, orchids, Origin of Species, R. Vaughn, Richard Dawkins, Saturday Review

"To those whose delight it is to dwell upon the manifold instances of intelligent design which everywhere surround us, this book will be a rich storehouse." Source

15Apr 2022 by Post

How Plants Talk When We’re Not Around

anesthesia, associative learning, biology, Claude Bernard, communications, consciousness, fungi, gene expression, glutamate, Hailing Jin, heliotropism, Life Sciences, Mimosa pudica, miRNAs, nervous system, Neuroscience & Mind, plants, psychology, Rainer Hedrich, RNA, sensory hair, shameplant, TMAO, Venus flytrap, vernalization, worms

One genuine surprise in recent decades has been the discovery that plants have nervous systems like animals. Source

14Apr 2022 by Post

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

animal rights, animals, bacteria, Climate News, Congress, courts, Culture & Ethics, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, germs, habeas corpus, human exceptionalism, individual animals, insects, Laws, Life Sciences, nature right, New York State, plants, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water

Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Source

21Mar 2022 by Post