Month: April 2015
Judge-Approved Mercy Murder Comes to South Africa
This is precisely how the horrors of the Netherlands were unleashed. Unless stopped on appeal, it will be worse in South Africa.
More on the White Space in Evolutionary Thinking: A Critic Responds to How to Build a Worm
Curiously, the blast from biologist and blogger PZ Myers avoids engaging Discovery Institute’s Paul Nelson on teleology except to flatly deny it.
Solving the Problem of Iron: Acquisition, Transport, and Control
It’s the iron (Fe) in the hemoglobin molecule to which O2 actually attaches and enables it to be transported in the blood.
First Steps Are Toughest? Not When It Comes to the Origin of Life
The theory of first steps may be true of quitting cigarettes or going on a diet.
How Cells Keep Right-Handed Amino Acids Out
Without this “homochirality,” proteins would never fold properly into functional structures, thus posing another chicken-and-egg problem for origin-of-life research.