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Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), Mensch

As I stood by the lab doorway, Lewontin — who was sitting right down front — looked back towards the door and caught my eye. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Genie: Misapplied Natural Selection Continues

“Natural selection” is like a Swiss Army knife that researchers in widely different disciplines use to solve their problems. Read More ›
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Biological Information Beyond DNA: The Future of Biology

Previously, Dr. Wells showed that embryo development requires information carried by membrane patterns in embryonic cells. Read More ›
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Biological Information Beyond DNA: The Bioelectric Code

Jonathan Wells explains how biological information is carried in the form of a bioelectric code, and how it differs from the information in DNA. Read More ›
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Biological Information Beyond DNA: The Sugar Code

Biologist Jonathan Wells discusses the “sugar code,” a non-DNA form of information that is determined by patterns of sugar molecules on membrane surfaces. Read More ›
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Recasting Darwin Stories into Engineering Models

Darwin gets credit by default for changes in organisms that should be seen instead as engineered products of foresight. Read More ›
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Information, Entropy, and the First Life

Physicist Eric Hedin talks about the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for naturalistic scenarios for the origin of the first living organism. Read More ›
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England, Davies: Honesty, if Not Agreement, on the Origin of Life

Jeremey England explained his conjecture that the flow of energy through a chemical system could cause it to self-organize in such a way as to move toward life. Read More ›
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“Designed for [a] Purpose” — Heme Production Defeats Evolution

Hemoglobin is well known as the molecule that transfers oxygen in blood, but its precursor, heme, is lesser known. Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells: Biological Information Beyond DNA

Dr. Wells explaining why DNA information in an embryo can only do its job in the context of spatial information that is specified independently of it. Read More ›

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