Tag: genetic code
Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics (Updated)
Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes.
Mistakes Our Critics Make: Information Theory
Researchers felt compelled to describe biological information using such phrases as “coding schemes,” “carries meaning,” “core program,” and “hierarchical rules (grammar).”
Teeth, Mollusks: Design in Biominerals
The subject of biomineralization also allows comparing the explanatory power of design over Darwinian evolution.
Researchers Spot a New Code in Disordered Proteins
The scientists call heat shock proteins “nature’s ‘first responders’ to cellular stress.”
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.