Drosera Type post Author Jonathan McLatchie Date February 21, 2024 CategoriesAnatomyBotanyEvolutionIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , Aldovanda, carnivorous plants, carnivory, Charles Darwin, chitinase, Cologne, convergence, Darwin's Black Box, digestion, digestive enzymes, Dionaea, enzymes, evolution, Genlisea, Germany, Heinz-Albert Becker, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, morphology, Nepenthes, nutrients, On the Origin of Species, prey, tentacles, Utricularia, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution Jonathan McLatchie February 21, 2024 Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 10 The paper highlights features of carnivorous plants that exhibit irreducible complexity, a characteristic of designed systems, citing the work of Michael Behe. Read More ›
Ford Model T Type post Author Granville Sewell Date July 26, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignOrigin of LifeTechnology Tagged , aquatic bladderworts, BioCosmos, Charles Darwin, chemical processes, duplication errors, evolution, Evolution News, Heinz-Albert Becker, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Model T, peer-reviewed literature, replication, self-replicating machines, self-replicators, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig The Other Unsolved Problem of Evolution Granville Sewell July 26, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Technology 5 "With all our advanced technology, we are not close to producing human-engineered self-replicating machines." Read More ›
Utricularia aurea 2 Type post Author Granville Sewell Date February 28, 2020 CategoriesBotanyLife Sciences Tagged , __edited, Aldovanda, aquatic bladderworts, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, components, Darwin's Black Box, Dionaea, Genlisea, Heinz-Albert Becker, Irreducible Complexity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mice, Michael Behe, mousetrap, nature, Utricularia Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature Granville Sewell February 28, 2020 Botany, Life Sciences 6 Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.” Read More ›