Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

DNA

RNA
Image: RNA, via Illustra Media’s documentary Origin.

Newly Published Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA

A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.” Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Miroslaw Miras, via Pixabay.

Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory

Natural selection can't work until there is something functional enough to select, and without guidance it cannot happen. Read More ›
piano
Photo credit: Dolo Iglesias via Unsplash.

Epigenetics: Performing the Genome

Epigenetics is surpassing genetics in distinction, just as the pianist gets the applause and not the piano. Read More ›
Long Story Short
Image source: Discovery Institute.

New Long Story Short Video Examines Information and the Origin of Life

Does the required information for life come from purely natural processes, or from an intelligent mind?  Read More ›
Long Story Short
Image source: Discovery Institute.

Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not

It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold. Read More ›
Lee Cronin
Photo: Lee Cronin, by Alfienoakes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

I’m Baffled by Lee Cronin, and I’m Not Alone

Do you know those prank mirror illusions where an object seems to be sitting in a dish ready to be picked up, but you reach for it and there’s nothing there? Read More ›
headache
Photo credit: Sander Sammy via Unsplash.

Another Headache for the RNA World Theory

Before a trial and error process like natural selection can even get started, self-replicating molecules must have a minimal accuracy rate. Read More ›
light dimmer
Photo credit: A light dimmer, by Betsssssy, via Flickr (cropped).

Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”

Rheostats are “often used as power control devices, for example to control light intensity (dimmer), speed of motors, heaters, and ovens.” Read More ›
DNA
Photo credit: Sangharsh Lohakare via Unsplash.

First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System ­— A Conundrum for Materialists

On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors. Read More ›
kinesin
Image at top: Kinesin at work in the cell, from "Kinesin: The Workhorse of the Cell," via Discovery Institute.

Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind? 

At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute