Category: Evolution | Page 119 | Science and Culture Today

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Walter Bradley

Date
September 25, 2022

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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, amino acids, Casey Luskin, DNA, early Earth, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Gerald Joyce, information sequence problem, intelligent design, nucleotides, prebiotic conditions, proteins, RNA, RNA world, Robert Shapiro, Scientific Reports, Stanley Miller, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley}

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

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September 25, 2022

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For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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September 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, books, Charles Darwin, Down House, evolution, fiction, future, ID the Future, materialism, Nickell John Romjue, novels, podcast, teleology, time travel}

Listen: Darwin Returns from the Future

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September 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Nickell John Romjue’s time-traveling Darwin returns to his family home and offers some final reflections on his eye-opening visit to the 21st century. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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, Alexander Oparin, cell membrane, cells, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), James Tour, lipid bilayer, oxidation, plasma membrane, Rice University, Sidney Fox, waste products}

The “Clumping” Problem and the Origin of Life

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September 23, 2022

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In the 1970s, biochemist Sidney Fox and colleagues believed they had uncovered primitive cell membrane-like structures called protenoid microspheres. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, ocean, polymerization, polymers, primordial soup, proteins, RNA, Scientific American, seawater, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, temperature, TIME}

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

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September 22, 2022

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Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ammonia, atmosphere, building blocks, carbon dioxide, David Deamer, early Earth, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), gases, hydrothermal vent, methane, Miller-Urey experiment, monomers, NASA, National Research Council, Nick Lane, primordial soup, Science (journal), University College London}

A Mystery: Prebiotic Synthesis of Simple Organic Monomers

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September 21, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In 2010, University College London biochemist Nick Lane stated the primordial soup theory “doesn’t hold water” and is “past its expiration date.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bioRxiv, co-evolution, convergence, Current Biology, DNA, Duke University, evolution, ferns, Florida Museum of Natural History, Foresight (book), gene flow, heredity, horizontal gene transfer, human evolution, intelligent design, introgression, Neanderthals, North Carolina State University, University of Tübingen}

Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

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September 20, 2022

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Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alexander Oparin, Aristotle, biopolymers, building blocks, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Harold C. Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, Louis Pasteur, Paris, proteins, RNA}

All Living Systems Must Process Energy, Store and Utilize Information, and Replicate

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September 20, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Louis Pasteur showed that what appeared to be life springing forth from nonliving matter was actually life emerging from exceedingly small living organisms. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, building blocks, Charles Darwin, complexity, DNA, electricity, evolution, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), grass, James Clerk Maxwell, living systems, Ludwig Boltzmann, magnetism, mountains, oak tree, oceans, proteins, RNA, rocks, sand, Second Law of Thermodynamics, simplicity, soil, sugars}

Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?

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September 19, 2022

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Evolutionary theory and the development of the second law of thermodynamics are two of the three major scientific discoveries of the 19th century. Read More ›

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Date
September 18, 2022

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Cosmology
Evolution
Physics
Science
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, books, Charles Darwin, DNA, fiction, ID the Future, molecular biology, Nickell John Romjue, novels, podcast, time travel}

If Darwin Visited the 21st Century

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September 18, 2022

Cosmology, Evolution, Physics, Science

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Charles Darwin learns about DNA and the other discoveries of molecular biology that have occurred since he developed his theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animation, bacteria, CAD/CAM, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DNA, DNA repair, evolution, gears, Germany, Helmholtz Association, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, microbe, molecular machines, mutations, Nature (journal), Research, rotors}

RuvAB: Another Elegant Molecular Motor Visualized

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September 15, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This machine looks like something out of a CAD/CAM project, but it’s found in bacteria. Read More ›