Tag: evolutionary mechanisms
The Formation of Our Digits Points to a Process with Foresight
Our digits are sculpted from a paddle-like structure in the embryo through the process of apoptosis.
The Incredible Design of Muscles
To understand the limitations of evolutionary mechanisms, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity,” as biochemist Michael Behe writes.
Brian Miller: Rarity and Isolation of Proteins in Sequence Space
Dr. Miller reports on research showing that the probability of a protein continuing to work after each mutation drops precipitously.
In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition
The present reader, in company with a host of agnostic biologists and cosmologists, simply finds in Darwin a complete dearth of convincing scientific evidence.
Proteins Are Rare and Isolated — And Thus, Cannot Evolve
Here is a simple analogy. Imagine a planetary rover lands on the north pole of a planet, and the humans controlling it wish to drive to the south pole.