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Cellular Cognition? So Much for Darwinism!

Following up in considering Daniel Nicholson’s challenge to the machine concept of the cell, I will examine intracellular transport and cellular behavior. Read More ›
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The Design of the Seminal Fluid and Sperm Capacitation

There is no cause in the universe that is known to have such a capacity of foresight other than intelligent design. Read More ›
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Mitochondria Promoted to Information Processing Systems

The label “powerhouses of the cell” was too simplistic for the many tasks performed every second by these computing, networking, signaling, regulating wonders. Read More ›
Grand Central Station
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Grand Central Station and Beyond: Molecular Machines Visualized in 3-D

Cryo-electron microscopy is allowing cell biologists to see irreducibly complex molecular machines in three-dimensional glory. Read More ›
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Energy Harnessing and Blind Faith in Natural Selection

The latest animated video from Long Story Short explains the complex requirements for energy harnessing in life. Read More ›
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High Energy: Long Story Short Addresses “Energy Harnessing” and Life’s Origin

Everyone knows that maintaining life requires energy, but most do not appreciate the intricate steps required to harness it. Read More ›
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Origin of Life without Intelligent Design? Long Story Short Tackles the “Energy Harnessing” Problem

“Life’s energy harnessing process is one big paradox. You need it before you can have it, and you can’t make it until you’ve already made it." Read More ›
phosfate mine
Photo: Phosfate mine, Republic of Nauru, by Lorrie Graham/AusAID, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Miracle of Man: The Problem of Phosphorus

To complete the argument for prior fitness of the elements for our Privileged Species, we must deal with the availability of another essential element. Read More ›
Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone
Photo: Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone, by David Coppedge.

Transfer RNAs Wear Special Gear for Hot Water

As usual, evolution-talk is inversely proportional to the amount of detail presented about cellular workings. Read More ›
Beetles collected by Charles Darwin
Photo: Beetles collected by Charles Darwin, by Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sara Walker and Her Crew Publish the Most Interesting Biology Paper of 2022 (So Far, Anyway)

Universal functional requirements, but without the identity of material components — sounds like design. Read More ›

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