Category: Science
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.
New Book on "Junk DNA" Surveys the Functions of Non-Coding DNA
What Discovery Institute biologist Jonathan Wells calls the “myth of junk DNA,” long a favorite with advocates of unguided evolution, isn’t quite dead and buried.
Listen: Why Vertebrate Embryos Stick in Darwinism’s Craw
Casey Luskin discusses differences between vertebrate embryos and how they contradict the predictions of common ancestry.
Imagine a World of Religions that Naturalism Might Indeed Be Able to Explain
Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker recently told CNN, “We don’t throw virgins into volcanoes any more.” No? Why not?