Author: Jonathan McLatchie
The Origin of Life: An RNA World?
We have explored just a small handful of the confounding difficulties confronting the chemical origin of life. This is not a god-of-the-gaps argument, as Matzke claims.
New Scientist Weighs in on the Origin of Life
Michael Marshall attempts to revive the fashionable (but scientifically bankrupt) scenario of an RNA world. Comments encouraged!
The Kinesin Motor: A Stunning Example of Cellular Nanotechnology
Kinesin is responsible for transporting molecular cargo along microtubule tracks from one region of the cell to another.
The Awe-Inspiring “Divine Beauty” of Flagellar Assembly
Since there is essentially no evidence that a process as complex and sophisticated as flagellar assembly could have arisen by virtue of a mutation/selection mechanism, how can we be so sure that it did evolve in that fashion?
Sex, the Queen of Problems in Evolutionary Biology
The origin and subsequent maintenance of sex and recombination isn’t easily explained by Darwinian evolution. Why is sex a success, despite all its disadvantages?