Tag: polymerization

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post

Date
August 7, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiotic processes, Accounts of Chemical Research, biopolymer backbones, biopolymers, building blocks, causal precondition, contradiction, Darwinian evolution, DNA, evolution, intelligent design, living state, molecules, polymerization, RNA}

Biopolymers: Change One Word to Eliminate the Contradiction

_{Science and Culture
August 7, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

The living state itself depends on the prior existence of biopolymers (such as RNA and DNA) which were themselves not produced by abiotic processes. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 23, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brazil, Brian Westad, carbohydrates, cell membranes, chemistry, chemists, coacervates, Discovery Institute Academy, early Earth, enzymes, Evolution News, experiments, Kristin Marais, Le Chatelier’s principle, Marcos Eberlin, mass transfer, molecular machines, origin of life, polymerization, prebiotic synthesis experiments, protocells, relay synthesis, São Paulo, smart barriers, South America}

Postcard from São Paulo: Design Evidence from High School Chemistry

_{Casey Luskin
July 23, 2025

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Kristin Marais spoke about “How to Make Chemistry Fun by Teaching Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, authority, Brian Miller, citation bluffing, Dave Farina, debates, DNA polymerase, Eric Anderson, evolution, Gerald Joyce, ID the Future, James Tour, Long Story Short, Nature Chemistry, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, polymerization, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, replication, Return of the God Hypothesis, ribozyme, Rice University, RNA, Robert Stadler, sarcasm, Stephen Meyer, Steve Benner, YouTube videos}

Exposing Professor Dave’s Playground Tactics and Citation Bluffing Blitz

_{Casey Luskin
May 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

21}

It’s true that sometimes it can be hard to tell that serious problems remain unsolved until you drill down into the scientific details. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 24, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, building blocks, Dave Farina, disinformation, early Earth, James Tour, Lee Cronin, Nature (journal), nucleotides, polymerization, polypeptides, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, proteins, RNA, RNA world, Robert Shapiro, side chains, Steven Benner, water, X-ray}

Professor Dave in His “Debate” with James Tour Showcases the Art of Citation Bluffing

_{Brian Miller
May 24, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

6}

When Farina addressed the science, he rifled through a long series of technical articles, but greatly exaggerated their relevance. Read More ›

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post

Author
Rob Stadler

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Be Smart, classrooms, DNA, education, Evolution News, Gerald Joyce, ideology, information, Long Story Short, materialism, misrepresentation, Next Generation Science Standards, NGSS, nucleotides, PBS, polymerization, replication, RNA, Stated Clearly, YouTube videos}

Long Story Short Detonates Propaganda About the Origin of Life

_{Rob Stadler
April 27, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

8}

These popular origin-of-life videos subordinate science to ideology. Accurate science clearly contradicts their teaching. Read More ›

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post

Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, ocean, polymerization, polymers, primordial soup, proteins, RNA, Scientific American, seawater, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, temperature, TIME}

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 22, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. Read More ›

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post

Author
Rob Stadler

Date
November 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, biopolymers, chirality, DNA, glycans, Holy Grail, homochirality, intelligent design, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, monomers, natural processes, nucleotides, Occam's Razor, polymerization, proteins, RNA, solvents, sugars, YouTube videos}

Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

_{Rob Stadler
November 30, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AAA proteins, allostery, amino acids, assembly, coevolution, cytoplasm, dynein, molecular machines, nucleolus, PNAS, polymerization, proteins, quantum mechanics, Ribosome, RNA, Rockefeller University}

Allostery: How Cells Do Remote Control

_{Science and Culture
August 27, 2020

Intelligent Design

11}

Cells have perfected action at a distance: not by magic, but by control of distant sites through carefully arranged functional intermediates. Read More ›

Organosilicon-based life as envisioned by artist, Lei Chen and Yan Liang

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post

Date
December 12, 2016

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Tagged
, __nedited, carbon, causation, cytochrome c, defining terms, engineering, enzymes, homochirality, iron, laws of nature, Nature, polymerization, polymers, purpose, silicon, Star Trek}

Silicon-Based Life: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

_{Science and Culture
December 12, 2016

Biochemistry, Chemistry

6}

No living cell we know of produces carbon-silicon bonds, but scientists "evolved" a way to make cells produce them. Read More ›