Tag: biochemistry
Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism
The Venus flytrap, like all carnivorous plants, had no use for its insect-trapping function unless it also had an insect-digesting function. And vice versa.
Molecular Motor Threads a Spiral Staircase
Get acquainted with another irreducibly complex molecular motor. This one is a master at unfolding proteins. Its method is ingenious.
Marcos Eberlin on Evolution’s Water-Gate Problem
There’s no conspiracy here, just life’s astonishing solution for admitting water into cells through “gates” while keeping lethal acidifying proteins out.
Making Predictions Against Design
From back when I was a sophomore taking biochemistry, one particular event stands out in my memory, perhaps because it was such an odd thing.
Irreducible Complexity Defeated? Behe on Ken Miller’s Mousetrap Tie-Clip
At a conference, says Miller, “I removed two parts from a mousetrap (leaving just the base, spring, and hammer), and used that 3-part device as a functional tie-clip.”