Month: August 2024
Engineered Elegance: Generating the Wait Anaphase Signal
Even a single unattached kinetochore is sufficient to trigger the wait anaphase signal, which inhibits activation of the APC/C that drives entry into anaphase.
Intelligent Design and the “Stop Hitting Yourself” Argument
A look at an underexamined rhetorical device, in the hands of Wikipedia and other ID critics.
Beauty and Our Privileged Planet
As Jay Richards and I argue in our book, nature seems designed in such a way that the most habitable places are the best places to do science.
The Elegant Spindle Assembly Checkpoint
Without this exquisitely engineered system, the cell risks distributing an uneven number of chromosomes to the daughter cells.
Jay Richards: Toppling a Myth of Human Insignificance
It was 19th-century materialism that needed the so-called Copernican demotion, for ideological reasons, and the historians of the time obediently invented it.