Tag: George Wald

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon-based life, Charles Tanford, ecosystem, electronegativity, elegance, Freeman Dyson, George Wald, glaciers, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, Lawrence J. Henderson, Linus Pauling, metabolism, mitochondria, nitrogen, nucleus, ocean, oxygen, parsimony, primer, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water}

Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2024

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Canada, early Earth, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Francis Crick, George Wald, habitability, hero, materialists, microfossils, miracle, Nobel Prize, Quebec, Scientific American}

Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 28, 2022

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Denton

Date
May 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, atomism, Bridgewater Treatises, Chance and Necessity, Darwinism, Democritus, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Wald, Harold Morowitz, imago Dei, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, Lawrence Henderson, materialism, natural selection, pre-Socratic philosophers, Stephen Jay Gould, Stone Age, The Fitness of the Environment, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, Western civilization}

How We Moved Beyond Darwin to the Miracle of Man

_{Michael Denton
May 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The extraordinary ensembles of natural environmental fitness described in my book are thoroughly documented scientific facts. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 31, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, charcoal, coal, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness of nature, fuel, George Wald, inventiveness, metal, oxygen, photosynthesis, Prometheus, quantum tunneling, smelting, Stephen Pyne, Tim Lenton, wood}

Needed for Fire: All the Right Fuel

_{Michael Denton
July 31, 2020

Intelligent Design, Technology

4}

There is another aspect of the Earth’s environment that is absolutely crucial in allowing the utilization of fire for metal-based technologies. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Darwinians, de novo genes, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, E. coli, encryption, George Wald, imagination, natural selection, Nature (journal), non-coding DNA, open reading frames, plasticity, proteins, proto-genes, University of Oslo}

Can New Genes Emerge from Scratch?

_{Science and Culture
January 20, 2020

Evolution

7}

Evolutionary theory must account for millions of new genes by chance. Here are new ideas proposed for overcoming the huge probability barrier. Read More ›

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post

Author
Olen R. Brown

Date
August 22, 2018

Categories
Astronomy
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, ATP, biosynthesis, blood, chemical reactions, chlorophyll, Darwinian evolution, enzymes, George Wald, hemoglobin, Lawrence Krauss, laws of nature, molecular biology, Olen R. Brown, supernatural, urea, vitalism}

Enzymes Are Essential for Life; Did They Evolve?

_{Olen R. Brown
August 22, 2018

Astronomy, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

7}

Darwinian evolution, even in its 21st-century form, fails the formidable task of explaining how the first enzyme arose. Read More ›