Tag: protocells

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beards, birds, brassiere, cows, Deborah Kellerman, DNA switch, EMBO Reports, evolution, Evolving Minds Project, fingernails, fish, flies, health, horned lizard, Ig Nobel Prizes, Igs, Improbable Research, jaws, jellyfish, just-so stories, Lasker Prize, leopard, lizards, mammals, Nature (journal), pangolin, paw pads, protocells, pufferfish, Regina Nuzzo, seahorse, storytelling, super-alcohol, supernova, Titan, turtle, Vladimir Leksa, vole}

What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories?

_{David Coppedge
September 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›

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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

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

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Author
Otangelo Grasso

Date
December 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Brian Miller, building blocks, calculations, chance, Eugene V. Koonin, jackpot, James Tour, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Long Story Short, metabolism, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Phys.org, Powerball, proteins, proteome, protocells, Quanta Magazine, Rice University, RNA world, self-organization, The Logic of Chance, University of North Carolina}

Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life

_{Otangelo Grasso
December 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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If researchers really were making progress, wouldn’t that mean they would be converging on the same truth? Yet they are not. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
June 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, cells, circular causality, complex specified information, DNA, DNA repair, DNA replication, enzymes, evolution, information, intelligent design, Long Story Short, metabolism, mitochondria, Mycoplasma mycoides, nucleotides, proteins, protocells, radiation, repair mechanisms, Ribosome, RNA}

Video: Life Can’t Exist Without Repair Mechanisms, and That’s a Problem for Origin-of-Life Theories

_{Rob Stadler
June 26, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

10}

Following the replication of DNA, a daily barrage of DNA damage occurs during normal operating conditions. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, cell membranes, cells, cellular metabolism, Dave Farina, hype, investigator interference, James Tour, Lee Cronin, molybdenum, nucleotides, organic chemistry, protocells, reactions, Research, ribose, Rice University, RNA, synthetic chemists}

On the Origin of Life, James Tour Exposes the Irrelevance of Lee Cronin’s Research

_{Brian Miller
February 16, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Tour details Cronin’s consistent exaggeration of the progress he and other researchers have made in unraveling the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adenine, ATP synthase, evolution, genetic information, gluconeogenesis, glycolysis, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, Krebs cycle, Miller-Urey experiment, Nick Lane, PLOS Biology, protocells, referee, University College London}

Game Over? Nick Lane Wants Another Inning

_{David Coppedge
October 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Michael Behe described how he attended a conference to hear Nobel laureate John Walker, the world’s expert on ATP synthase, explain how it might have evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
April 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cell membranes, cells, complexity, Craig Venter, DNA, E. coli, Energy, evolution, glucose, intelligent design, Long Story Short, matter, Mycoplasma genitalium, prokaryotes, protocells, ribose, Richard Lenski, YouTube videos}

Origin of Life: Top Three Problems with Protocells

_{Rob Stadler
April 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

Protocells place origin-of-life researchers in an awkward position: relying upon an imaginary entity to sustain their belief that only matter and energy exist. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 4, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, cell membranes, chemical evolution, conflicting requirements, design constraint, evolution, first cell, homeostasis, intelligent design, Long Story Short, materialists, microbiology, protocells, protons}

Origin of Life: The Problem of Cell Membranes

_{David Klinghoffer
April 4, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Origin of Life

2}

Wow, the new Long Story Short video is out now, and I think it’s the best one yet — it’s amazingly clear and quite funny. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Anna Zeligowski, brains, Cambrian Explosion, consciousness, David Chalmers, Eva Jablonka, Germany, protocells, Simona Ginsberg}

Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2021

Anatomy, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

5}

Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Read More ›

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Date
May 27, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, cell membrane, cells, Darwin's Black Box, EMBO Journal, eukaryotic cells, foresight, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, macrophages, Michael Behe, primordial soup, proteins, protocells, Uniprot, vesicles}

Zip It: How Cells Repair Leaking Membranes

_{Science and Culture
May 27, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

Membrane repair would have been necessary for the existence of the first cell. By what miracles did it arise? Read More ›