Tag: codons

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post

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

6}

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

Sanger Sequencing. 3D illustration of a method of DNA sequencing.

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative reading frames, coding-sequence overlaps, codon-anticodon duplex formation, codons, constraints, DNA, fine-tuning, frameshifts, frozen accident, genetic code, Genome Research, hydrogen bond, hydrophobicity, mistranslation, nucleosomes, point mutations, protein sequences, purine, pyrimidines, random codes, RNA, specificity, splicing signals, translation, translation errors, tRNA, wobble position}

The Genetic Code: Two More Levels of Optimization

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 6, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

5}

We have surveyed multiple levels at which the genetic code, far from a “frozen accident,” appears highly optimized across multiple independent constraints. Read More ›

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

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post

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

4}

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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post

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

8}

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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post

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

6}

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

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 1, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, biological engineering, Boris Zinshteyn, codons, combinations, degeneracy, dormancy, Francis Crick, function, genes, genetic code, hypoxia, intelligent design, mismatch, MIT, Mycobacterium bovis, oxygen, Peter Dedon, PNAS, predictions, proteins, Rachel Green, redundancy, Science (journal), Scripps Research Institute, transfer RNA}

A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

_{David Coppedge
April 1, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

7}

The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Read More ›

Futuristic Data Encryption and Secure Coding Practices

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post

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AI, Alan Turing, codons, complexity, computation, computer science, computers, DNA, Google, John von Neumann, logic gates, programmers}

Life as Computation: An AI Researcher’s (Unwitting) Argument for Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
October 23, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

3}

How many computer geniuses did it take in order to produce even a tiny fragment of this complexity? And how great must be the mind that designed all this! Read More ›

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post

Author
Gregory Rummo

Date
March 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Book of Job, chemistry, codons, Douglas Axe, Johannes Kepler, Joseph Hooker, Judeo-Christian tradition, malnutrition, mRNA, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, primordial soup, protein synthesis, proteins, reagents, RNA polymerase, Stephen Meyer, tRNA}

The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

_{Gregory Rummo
March 17, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Ann Gauger, bias, causal circularity, cells, circular reasoning, codons, common ancestor, cysteine, DNA, genetic code, helicase, histidine, mind, natural processes, nucleotides, Phys.org, PNAS, proteins, replication, RNA world, topoisomerase, transcription, translation}

Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code

_{Brian Miller
January 27, 2025

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Read More ›

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post

Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, codons, Darwinists, Denis Noble, DNA, evolution, genome, germline, information, intelligent design, medicine, proteins, Richard Dawkins, RNA, self-replication, The Guardian, The Selfish Gene, unguided processes}

Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis

_{Daniel Witt
May 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Leading the charge against the model is — of all people — one of Dawkins’s own doctoral examiners at Oxford, the renowned physiologist Denis Noble. Read More ›