Category: Life Sciences
Spectacular New Animation Demonstrates Intelligent Design of a Molecular Machine in the Cell
There is something very powerful, cutting through endless words and arguments, about seeing a clearly designed molecular mechanism at work.
It’s Not the "Complexity"
A clich� popular with journalists holds that ID is all about how life is “too complex” to have originated or evolved without direction from some source of intelligence.
How the Cell Exploits Genetic Code Degeneracy
Having multiple codes for the same amino acid seems like a waste, until you recognize how the cell takes advantage of it.
DNA Replication: An Engineering Marvel
It was almost as though the word “design” jumped off the pages of my textbook and slapped me in the face.
Assessing the “Algorithmic Origin of Life”
“Explaining the chemical substrate of life and claiming it as a solution to life’s origin is like pointing to silicon and copper as an explanation for the goings-on inside a computer,” says astrobiologist Paul Davies.