Tag: molecular biology
“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast
All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm.
Biologist Nathan Lents: Beauty in Error
He has a different take on imperfection, one more optimistic than one might expect from someone who writes about what’s wrong with us.
Enzymes Are Essential for Life; Did They Evolve?
Darwinian evolution, even in its 21st-century form, fails the formidable task of explaining how the first enzyme arose.
Biophysicist Ken Dill: Protein Machines Are “Real Machines. That’s Not a Metaphor”
The implication of design, while no doubt unintended, is so powerful it almost doesn’t need to be spelled out.
Life Exponential: Life Exhibits Intelligent Design at Many Levels
Complexity (such as we see in a pile of autumn leaves) can arise spontaneously from unguided natural processes, but complex specified information cannot.