Tag: nucleic acids

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Date
September 15, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, ancient Earth, cells, chemistry, design evidence, design signal, destiny, deterministic pathways, fascination, frustration, Georgia Tech, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, life, lipids, Loren Williams, LUCA, molecules, NASA, National Science Foundation, nucleic acids, ocean, organic chemistry, polysaccharides, proteins, ribosomes, water, wet-dry cycles, YouTube videos}

Origin-of-Life Researcher at Georgia Tech Picks Up the Design Signal in Biopolymers

_{Science and Culture
September 15, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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You will hear one word, over and over in this remarkable talk, that has stolen the place, or taken the credit, for what is undeniable evidence of design. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, biological systems, cell division, cells, decision-making, gene expression, Gregory T. Reeves, hardware, intelligent design, lipids, neo-Darwinian processes, nucleic acids, Paper Digest, protein synthesis, software}

Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Barbara McClintock, cells, cellular behavior, cellular cognition, Chance and Necessity, circuitry, cognition, Daniel Nicholson, DNA, electronic circuitry, function, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, machine conception of the cell, machine metaphor, membranes, molecular biology, nucleic acids, proteins, self-assembly, Sewall Wright}

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

_{Robert Shedinger
September 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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

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post

Author
Eric Cassell

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, animals, ant colony, artificial intelligence, behaviors, calculus, David Berlinski, foraging, humans, intelligent design, navigation, Neural Networks, nucleic acids, optimization, pheromones, proteins, Science After Babel, Traveling Salesman Problem}

Can Algorithms Designed by Humans Catch Up with the Genius of Biological Systems?

_{Eric Cassell
August 1, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

While humans invented algorithms only within the last century, enabling the development of AI, animals exhibit behavioral algorithms that long predate humans. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Arthur S. Reber, cells, central dogma, consciousness, DNA, Francis Crick, František Baluška, James Shapiro, materialism, neurons, Nobel Prize, nucleic acids, Oxford University, panpsychism, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, RNA, Scientific American, The Scientist, UCLA, University of Bonn, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago, William B. Miller Jr.}

Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.” 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

6}

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
David Coppedge

Date
February 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, algae, atmosphere, bacteria, biosphere, carbon, cells, cellular metabolism, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Greenland, heme, hydrogen, intelligent design, Michael Denton, neurons, nitrogen, nitrogenase, Norfolk, nucleic acids, oxygen, phosphorus, PLOS ONE, Privileged Species, rare earth elements, supply chain, termites, The Miracle of Man, University of Pennsylvania, vitamin B12}

How the Earth Operates Supply Chains for Life

_{David Coppedge
February 27, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

8}

It’s no help having essential elements in the Earth’s crust if they can’t get to the organisms that need them. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 31, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, centromeres, DNA, evolution, evolutionary processes, gene expression, Genome Research, human genome, intelligent design, Joe Felsenstein, John Avise, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nicholas Matzke, nucleic acids, repetitive elements, researchers, RNA, telomeres, transposable elements}

Researchers: What’s Evolutionary Debris to You Is Unexplored Territory to Us

_{Science and Culture
March 31, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

From a new, open-access article, “Implications of the first complete human genome assembly.” Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
April 6, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Black Hills, Charles Thaxton, DNA, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Watson, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Massachusetts, molecular biology, Mount Rushmore, murder, NASA, nucleic acids, philosophers, proteins, SETI, Sherlock Holmes, South Dakota, specified complexity, suicide, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

“Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact”

_{Charles Thaxton
April 6, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

13}

We are not saying DNA is like a message. Rather, DNA is a message. Read More ›

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post

Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
March 24, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, biological information, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, chemicals, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Francis Crick, James Watson, neo-Darwinian theory, nucleic acids, origins, prebiotic evolution, proteins, Roger Olsen, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins

_{Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, and Roger E. Olsen
March 24, 2020

Biology, Evolution

4}

The impressive complexities of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules are presently developed in nature only in living things. Read More ›