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Welcome to the Electric Cell

Chemical signaling in the cell is fairly well known, but what about electrical signaling? Is a cell wired like an electrical network? Read More ›
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IDP
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Orderly Disorder: A Molecular Motor Regulated by IDP

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are common in cells. Can a disordered protein regulate a molecular motor? Read More ›
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Lehigh
Photo: Lehigh University campus, by Joseph Giansante '76 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 3

Perhaps the evidence for the vast scope of Darwin’s theory really isn’t as strong as biologists over the years have been telling each other. Read More ›
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René Descartes
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Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery

French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.” Read More ›
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Image source: “The Workhorse of the Cell: Kinesin,” via Discovery Institute.

Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machines

René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.” Read More ›
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Irreducible Complexity in Molecular Machine Assembly

We know that many molecular machines are irreducibly complex in their operation. Even more IC is the process of assembling them in the cell. Read More ›
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Berra’s Blunder in Molecular Motors

Statements in news articles suggest that some science writers, while aware of ID, don’t understand what is required for a Darwinian response. Read More ›
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Image at top: Kinesin at work in the cell, from "Kinesin: The Workhorse of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

ID’s Top Six — The Origin of Irreducibly Complex Molecular Machines

There is no known cause, other than intelligent design, that can produce machine-like structures with multiple interacting parts. Read More ›
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Molecular Machines Reach Perfection

Does anything in nature achieve perfection? Yes, say Japanese researchers looking at an amazing molecular machine in a “primitive” life form. Read More ›

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