Tag: amino acids

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 3, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, carbohydrates, cellular metabolism, chemistry, control feedback loops, embedded computing, Energy, enzymes, feedstock, formaldehyde, informational system, intelligent design, iron, lipids, microspheres, minimally complex cells, molybdenum, Nayan Chakraborty, organic molecules, origin of life, origin-of-life literature, peptides, philosophical commitments, phosphate, protocells, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Shashi Thutupalli, signal processing, specified complexity, spherules, storytelling, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Protocell Pretensions: The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research

_{Brian Miller
September 3, 2026

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, amino acids, cells, cellular metabolism, chemical reactions, chemists, DNA, early Earth, Energy, energy production, failed models, information processing, investigators, mind, nanozymes, nucleotide chains, origin of life, overinterpretation, particles, peptides, photosynthesis, polymerization, Protein World, proteins, Research (journal), RNA, RNA world, self-replicating RNA, thermodynamics, Yongdong Jin}

Nonsense with “Nanozymes”: New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress

_{Brian Miller
September 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Yongdong Jin proposes that microscopic particles, which he terms nanozymes, orchestrated many of the major steps in the synthesis of the first cell. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 11, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __trending, abiotic chemical reactions, amino acids, archaea, bacteria, cellular organism, cofactors, common ancestry, environment, enzymatic metabolism, enzymes, evolutionary biologists, homology, hydrothermal vent, last archaeal common ancestor, Last Bacterial Common Ancestor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, lineages, LUCA, nucleobases, organic molecules, origin of life, Science Advances, Smithsonian Magazine, universal common ancestry}

Enzymes in Bacteria and Archaea Are So Dissimilar There Must Be “Two Origins of Life”

_{Casey Luskin
August 11, 2026

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Don’t get distracted by wondering how the extreme heat near a vent (a toasty 750° F or more inside the vent) wouldn’t quickly break down organic molecules. Read More ›

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Date
July 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, BIO-Complexity, buried treasure, Conservation of Information, Douglas Axe, downhill, elevation, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fitness, flood, higher ground, hill climbing, information, local optimum, mathematics, natural selection, Nature Ecology and Evolution, optimum, protein folds, RNA sequences, Sam F. Greenbury, uphill, Winston Ewert}

New Paper: Appeals to Evolutionary Plateaus Do Not Save Evolution

_{Science & Culture
July 13, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In evolution, mutations that increase fitness can be thought of as moving uphill, whereas mutations that decrease fitness can be thought of as moving downhill. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
June 23, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, acetyl molecule, acetyl tags, amino acids, Ant-Man, bacterium, beams, biology, broccoli, carbon, cells, Chromosome 17, DNA, engineering, epigenetic information, epigenome, Fantastic Voyage, girders, histone acetylase enzyme, histone core, histone deacetylase enzyme, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, hydrogen, Innerspace, intelligent design, James Gills, methyl tag, miniaturization, natural gas, nucleus, oxygen, physics, proteins, submarine, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Thomas Woodward}

20,000 Bots Under the Sea: A Fantastic Voyage into the Cell

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
June 23, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Imagine you have been invited to a futuristic discovery center, a facility that has pioneered the ability to shrink people and objects many orders of magnitude. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
May 11, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, annotation, automated sequence annotation programs, bachelors, biologists, biology, common descent, conservation, evolution, evolutionary conservation, functional status, gymnasium, intelligent design, John Mattick, Nature (journal), neologisms, open reading frame, peptide, phone number, protein, shared inter-taxon similarity}

“Peptideins”? Give Those Shorties Another Look

_{Paul Nelson
May 11, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Picture short, lonely bachelors in rented formal wear, leaning on the wall, nervously checking their watches at the annotation dance. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 7, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, Artem Novozhilov, codon mapping, codons, combinatorial space, conscious intent, Eugene Koonin, evolution, fine-tuning, frozen accident, genetic code, intelligent creator, intelligent design, natural selection, optimality, prebiotic selection, proteins, standard code, trial and error, tRNAs}

The Combinatorial Abyss: Why the Genetic Code Defies Chance

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 7, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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It is highly improbable that the genetic code could have evolved by gradual trial and error. Read More ›

Male construction road worker holding a stop sign and directing traffic on the street. Traffic management

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 5, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative codes, amino acids, aspartic acid, biology, codon family, codons, deletions, frameshift, frameshift mutations, genetic code, genetics, glutamic acid, indels, insertions, intelligent design, mapping system, nucleotides, optimization, parameters, stop codons, translation, triplets}

Stop Signals in Disguise: How the Genetic Code Guards Against Frameshifts

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 5, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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A frameshift mutation occurs as the result of indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides that is non-divisible by three. Read More ›

DNA sequencing result, visualisation. Researches in genetics

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 4, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, anti-codon, BioSystems, codons, constraints, cysteine, degeneracy, error-impact, fine-tuning, frameshift mutations, genetic code, intelligent design, leucine, mutations, optimization, overlapping coding sequences, proteins, redundancy, Ribosome, RNA, triplets, tryptophan, tyrosine, wobble position}

Introducing the Remarkable Genetic Code

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 4, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The optimization of the genetic code for error minimization is made possible by the redundancy of the code. What is meant by redundancy? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
April 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, acyl transfer, aldehydes, alphabet, amino acids, anhydrides, atoms, biosynthetic cost, codons, cyclisation, decomposition, DNA replication, esters, Francis Crick, hydrolysis, hydrophobicity, ketones, nitriles, polypeptides, protein core, proteins, purposeful selection, racemisation, side chains, solubility, stability, surface, teleology, The FEBS Journal, tRNAs}

The Set of Amino Acids Used in Life Is No “Frozen Accident”

_{Jonathan McLatchie
April 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Significantly, these data indicate that the space of usable amino acids is severely constrained. Read More ›