Tag: DNA
Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths
A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy.
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.
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.
Here’s How to Make a Difference in Evolution Education
At the national book launch for Zombie Science, Jonathan Wells and John West faced some great questions.
Molecular Machines Reach Perfection
Does anything in nature achieve perfection? Yes, say Japanese researchers looking at an amazing molecular machine in a “primitive” life form.