Tag: chemical reactions

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Science Education
Tagged
, acid-base chemistry, atoms, biology, chemical bonds, chemical reactions, chemistry, Discovery Institute Academy, Energy, environment, equilibrium, fine-tuning, gases, genetic code, handouts, high school, homeschooling, human body, ID the Future, integration, intelligent design, Kristin Marais, lectures, liquids, matter, Michael Denton, nuclear chemistry, parents, podcast, readings, scientific process, solids, solutions, spontaneity, students, Summer Lile, thermodynamics, video, wet labs}

Register Now: HS Biology and Chemistry with Intelligent Design Integration

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Science Education

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The integration is key; the courses don’t just tack on ID concepts but place them directly where they fit with the underlying scientific understanding. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
January 15, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, breathing, causality, Charles Darwin, chemical reactions, chlorophyll, chloroplasts, earth, heart, Inertia, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Moon, physical constants, rationality, science of purpose, teleology, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas}

“All Things Are Ordered to Their End”

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
January 15, 2024

Chemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, artifacts, books, chemical evolution, chemical reactions, complex specified information, Ernst Mayr, genes, Hubert Yockey, humans, information, information theory, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, letters, Marcello Barbieri, molecular machines, music, numbers, photos, pixels, proteins}

Barbieri’s Dilemma: Biological Information without Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 15, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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The problem is obvious: Information is by its nature immaterial. It is measured in bits, not kilograms or joules. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
July 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, carpenter, cells, chemical reactions, cytoplasm, egg, ententional, enzymes, function, glucose, hammer, insulin, life, materialism, materialists, natural selection, nature, oxygen, purpose, randomness, science of purpose, scientists, sperm, structure, teleology, telos, Terrence Deacon}

Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, biomolecules, chemical reactions, form, function, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism}

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›

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Author
James M. Tour

Date
April 7, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, air, carbohydrates, chemical reactions, chemicals, DNA, earth, first life, homochirality, information processing, information storage, lipids, metabolism, molecules, nanomachines, natural processes, nucleic acids, panspermia, proteins, RNA, sunlight, synthetic chemists, water}

Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?

_{James M. Tour
April 7, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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Abiogenesis is the prebiotic process wherein life, such as a cell, arises from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science Reporting
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, bioengineering, biofuels, Brownian motion, cells, chemical reactions, cytoplasm, drugs, evolution, Evolution News, Humpty Dumpty, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, molecular machines, signals, Stanford University, The Design of Life, The New Yorker, William A. Dembski}

The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”

_{Casey Luskin
March 2, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science Reporting

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There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with? Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 9, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, agency, biophysicists, cells, chemical reaction, chemical reactions, Darwinian evolution, Elbert Branscomb, Energy, entropy, free energy, geothermal vents, Helen Hansma, hydrothermal vents, information, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Jeremy England, Leslie Orgel, metabolism, mica sheets, Michael Russell, molecular engines, molecular machines, molecules, natural selection, population genetics, proton gradient, RNA, RNA world, Ronald Fisher, self-replication, thermodynamics}

Do Origin-of-Life Researchers Now Accept Intelligent Design?

_{Brian Miller
November 9, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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A reader must ask if an RNA molecule could possibly govern chemical reactions, suppress free-riders, support co-operators, and act in its own self-interest. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alchemy, chemical energy, chemical reactions, DNA, Helen Hansma, Inference (journal), information, Jeremy England, mica sheets, molecular engines, natural selection, perpetual motion machine, physicists, proteins, RNA, self-replication, thermodynamics, UC Santa Barbara}

Barriers to an Unguided Origin of Life: Biophysicist Helen Hansma Enters the Debate

_{Brian Miller
November 2, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Professor Hansma maintains that sets of integrated reactions could have been directed by natural selection to gradually evolve into an autonomous cell. Read More ›

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Date
October 15, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, appendix, astrophysics, biochemists, cancer, cells, chemical reactions, copper, detoxification, earth, elements, French National Centre for Scientific Research, gold, heavy elements, human beings, intelligent design, iron, Live Science, lysosomes, magnesium, manganese, metabolism, Michael Denton, Nature Communications, nucleosynthesis, The Miracle of the Cell, therapeutics, tonsils, transition metals, zinc}

Does Gold Have a Purpose? Science Hints at Answers

_{Science and Culture
October 15, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics

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A gold rush makes sense. But a copper rush? Not so much. And yet, perhaps there is more to gold than aesthetics. Read More ›