Category: Life Sciences
Free Energy and the Origin of Life: Natural Engines to the Rescue
A fundamental hurdle facing all origin-of-life theories is the fact that the first cell must have had a free energy far greater than its chemical precursors.
Dan Graur, Darwin’s Reactionary
To call him this is an irony, I realize, since the University of Houston evolutionary biologist and Junk DNA diehard is a flaming left-winger.
Nanotechnology Engineers Struggle to Match Cell Performance
Scientists are taking baby steps toward imitating what cells do all the time.
The Origin of Life, Self-Organization, and Information
In an article here yesterday, I described the thermodynamic challenges to any purely materialistic theory for the origin of life.
Cell Machines Maintain the Planet for Life
Machines packed in exquisite geometrical structures play a major role in cleaning the air and regulating carbon for the entire planet.
Butterfly Mystery Solved
The dill and parsley plants in our box garden are loaded with black swallowtail caterpillars.
Discovery Institute’s Günter Bechly Presents New Dragonfly Finds from Eocene Baltic Amber
Certainly, the photos are gorgeous, and with Dr. Bechly’s permission I’m delighted to share a few here.
Spotted — Papilio polyxenes
Somehow this handsome fellow found his way into my office.
The “Exquisite Design” of Human Biology
There is a certain characteristic shallowness to the storytelling exercise that is evolutionary biology.
Hat Grab: Cells Take Extreme Measures to Rescue Their DNA
There’s a famous scene in an Indiana Jones movie where the hero barely makes it under a closing gate descending on him in an underground tunnel.