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Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation

It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process. Read More ›
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The Formation of Our Digits Points to a Process with Foresight

Our digits are sculpted from a paddle-like structure in the embryo through the process of apoptosis. Read More ›
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Disassembling Lee Cronin’s Assembly Theory

When I read the Assembly Theory literature and studied the details of the theory, I was frankly shocked to see how devoid it is of substance and insight. Read More ›
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More on James Tour’s Abiogenesis YouTube Series

Brian Miller discusses the Levinthal paradox of the interactome, the long odds of blind processes assembling the first cell, and the challenge of cell death. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: Till Death Do Us Part

When I was in charge of the Emergency Room at Los Angeles County Hospital, I saw many instances of near-death trauma, yet there was little complaint about pain. Read More ›
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Tour, Meyer: Some Very Hard Problems Facing Origin-of-Life Research

The problems range from the extreme improbabilities associated with protein assembly, to what precisely has gone missing in the nanosecond when a cell dies. Read More ›
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In Cells and Whole Organisms, Repair Mechanisms Imply Foresight, Not Evolution

It takes foresight to make complex tools and procedures that can restore the functions of other tools. A blind process can only see the immediate present. Read More ›
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In Cell Death, a Stunning Display of Intelligent Design

Even tissues have to deal with the dead, and like everything else they do, they excel at it. The number of players involved in cell death is truly astonishing. Read More ›
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Cellular Self-Sacrifice — And an Allegory

No one knows how apoptosis came to be, although there are theories. Even the simplest of animals are programmed for it. Read More ›

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