Tag: Irreducible Complexity
Glicksman: Raising the Bar for Darwinism
“How can you understand where life came from if you don’t understand how it actually works?”
Molecular Machines Use Physics to Do Mechanical Work
Recent findings show cellular machinery using pushes, pulls, and even electrical forces to accomplish physical work.
The “Exquisite Design” of Human Biology
There is a certain characteristic shallowness to the storytelling exercise that is evolutionary biology.
Mammals Compute Sound Timing in the Microsecond Range
Two ears provide the ability for mammals to tell the direction of sound, involving multiple finely tuned mechanisms.
What Can a Mathematician Contribute to the Evolution Debate?
Sometimes it helps to step back from the details and look at the bigger picture.
Streaming from São Paulo, Launch of Brazil ID Center Was a Great Success!
The Brazilian ID scene has come a long way very quickly. It’s quite amazing.
Japanese Silkworm Researcher Takes on Michael Behe, Proposing “Reducible Complexity”
The author acknowledges major longstanding debates about evolution and offers “certain essential avenues for deciphering the origin of complex adaptive traits.”
The Designed Body, Continued: Coherence Wins, Gradualism Fails
Suppose I want to build a car that’s capable of getting me from point A to point B. It minimally takes several dozen parts.
The Designed Body: Irreducible Complexity on Steroids = Exquisite Engineering
Perhaps because life is so common, it’s easy to lose sight of how tenuous it is. Life depends on a delicate balance of forces.
To Discover Irreducibly Complex Mechanisms, Biologists Reverse Engineer a Worm
They explored how the nematode worm C. elegans orients itself to the earth’s magnetic field.