05May 2026 by Post

Stop Signals in Disguise: How the Genetic Code Guards Against Frameshifts

alternative codes, amino acids, aspartic acid, biology, codon family, codons, deletions, frameshift, frameshift mutations, genetic code, genetics, glutamic acid, indels, insertions, Intelligent Design, mapping system, nucleotides, optimization, parameters, stop codons, translation, triplets
A frameshift mutation occurs as the result of indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides that is non-divisible by three. Source
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19Feb 2026 by Post

Yet Another Demonstration that Life’s Origin Required an Intelligent Agent

Cambridge, candor, chemical evolution, chemical processes, early Earth, Edoardo Gianni, England, experiments, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, James Tour, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, nucleotide chains, nucleotides, origin of life, physical processes, primer, protocell, QT45, reagents, RNA, RNA replicator, RNA world, Rob Stadler, Science (journal), water
James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Source
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10Dec 2025 by Post

The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

animals, Ascaris megalocephala, bar code, Cenorhabditis elegans, Chemistry, chimpanzees, chromosome number, chromosomes, Cruciferae, DNA, donkeys, Drosophila, Evolution, ferns, fruit flies, genes, genetics, homunculus, humans, idiogram, Junk DNA, Lego blocks, Ninth Symphony, nucleotides, Ophioglossum petiolatum, Parthenon, physics, plants, proteins, roundworm, Salvador Dalì, wheat, zebras
Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned. Source
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16Jul 2025 by Post

New Article from James Tour Undermines a Pillar of Origin-of-Life Theories

amino acids, BioCosmos, biomolecules, building blocks, C. James, cell's, diffusion, diffusion coefficient, dipeptide, discovery time, Evolution, half-life, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, James Tour, M. C. Parker, nucleotides, origin of life, peptide bond, physics, proteins, Rice University, RNA, statistical decay theory, thermodynamics, water
Proteins and RNA degrade at rates that render their spontaneous formation under natural, undirected conditions highly implausible. Source
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26Jun 2025 by Post

Critics Change the Topic: Do Human-Human Genetic Differences Matter? 

1 percent myth, Amazon, chimps, Chimps and Critics (series), CHM13, common ancestry, DNA, Evolution, Financial Times, function, genetic difference, genetics, genomes, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Han Chinese, human exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, human-human genetic differences, humans, Jared Diamond, Joel Duff, Junk DNA, Nature Communications, non-alignable DNA, Nucleic Acids Research, nucleotides, objections, reactions, repetitive DNA, Science (journal), Smithsonian Institution, University of Chicago Press, Zachary Ardern
One of the common yet unexpected reactions from critics to the discovery that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different is to change the topic. Source
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20Dec 2024 by Post

Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding

AI systems, amino acids, Artificial Intelligence, boats, brain, butterflies, cranes, Creativity, Cyclommatus metallifer, DNA, embryonic development, Evolution, flowers, folds, information content, Intelligent Design, intelligent entities, Isaac Gonzalez, large language models, nucleotides, origami, planes, simulations, spinal cord, Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2
The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities. Source
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31Oct 2023 by Post

On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Successfully Called These Researchers’ Bluff

abiogenesis, amino acids, biological information, biology, cell, Chemistry, Dave Farina, David Klinghoffer, deadline, early Earth, enantiomerically pure, Evolution, experts, glucose, handedness, Intelligent Design, James Tour, materialism, monosaccharides, nucleotides, origin of life, polypeptides, polysaccharides, Rice University, RNA, sugars, Tova Forman, YouTubers
Tour issued his challenge in reply to the false claims made by YouTubers, like Dave Farina, about how these hurdles to life’s origin had been fully addressed. Source
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27Sep 2023 by Post

Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”

autism, binding kinetics, biology, cancer, Crohn’s disease, DNA, eukaryotes, Evolution, fine-tuning, gene expression, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, heaters, human genome, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, light dimmer, motor speed, motors, mutations, nucleotides, ovens, phenotypes, power control, proteins, regulatory elements, repetitive elements, rheostat, schizophrenia, Science (journal), Short Tandem Repeats, STRs, transcription factor
Rheostats are “often used as power control devices, for example to control light intensity (dimmer), speed of motors, heaters, and ovens.” Source
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01May 2023 by Post

Long Story Short Debunks Another Tall Tale of Self-Replication

animation, Center for Chemical Evolution, classrooms, Education, Evolution, Gerald Joyce, Intelligent Design, Jon Perry, Long Story Short, materialism, NASA, National Science Foundation, Next Generation Science Standards, NGSS, nucleotides, origin of life, prebiotic Earth, researchers, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, Stated Clearly, tar, template, triphosphate, YouTube videos
While posing as an educational video with scientific authority, this offering from Stated Clearly conveniently sweeps well-established science under the rug. Source
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15Feb 2023 by Post

Molecular Infertility: New Long Story Short on RNA Replication and Life’s Origin

atheists, biology, boiling water, cancer, cellular replication, Charles Darwin, enzymes, Evolution, Evolution News, Intelligent Design, Long Story Short, magnesium, metabolism, mutations, nucleotide monomers, nucleotides, origin of life, replication, Richard Dawkins, RNA, RNA world, RNA-Peptide World, RNAse E, self-replicators, Spiegelman’s Monster, Tomonori Totani
You might think that such severe impediments to prebiotic RNA formation would be enough to discourage fanciful proposals of RNA replication. Source
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