Tag: Scientific Reports
By Design — How Pearls Get Their Luster
The highly valued optical properties of pearls come from sophisticated processes of biomineralization involving proteins and crystals.
Do Proteins Lack Metals, Reflecting Poor Design?
According to Erika DeBenedictis, “one of the big limitations of biology are the basic building blocks themselves.”
Remember This: Memory Requires Intelligent Design
The brain assists the organization and recall of thoughts by segmenting them and associating them with stimuli. But who is doing the thinking?
Eyes in a Twinkling?
In 1991, Richard Dawkins gave a lecture arguing that natural selection can produce complex and seemingly improbable features by an accumulation of small, incremental steps.
Tendons Are Irreducibly Complex
A simple tissue we take for granted turns out to represent another example of irreducible complexity in the human body.