Tag: DNA
Another Headache for the RNA World Theory
Before a trial and error process like natural selection can even get started, self-replicating molecules must have a minimal accuracy rate.
Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”
Rheostats are “often used as power control devices, for example to control light intensity (dimmer), speed of motors, heaters, and ovens.”
First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists
On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors.
Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?
At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind.
Emergence by Design
The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes.