Tag: recycling

Products from polyurethane on the exhibition stand. Industry

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
November 11, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AbPURase, amino acids, bacteria, blind search, China, clothes, couch cushions, crosslinking, E. coli, engineering, enzymes, foresight, graph neural networks, GRASE, landfills, mattresses, mutation, natural enzymes, neural network, plastic, polyurethane, promiscuous activity, protein engineering, recycling, selection, shoes, urethanases, yoga mats}

Can Protein Design Outpace Directed Evolution in Recycling Plastic?

_{Emily Reeves
November 11, 2025

Computational Sciences, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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What is polyurethane and where is it used? It’s a type of plastic and it is pretty much everywhere: shoes, clothes, yoga mats, mattresses, couch cushions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Casey Luskin, Dan Stern Cardinale, Darwinian evolution, Dr. Dan, Eigen’s paradox, errors, expectations, foresight, hot dogs, intelligent design, junk DNA, Long Story Short, Manfred Eigen, recognition, recycling, repair, ribosomes, Rutgers University}

DNA Repair and the Origin of Life: Here’s the Problem

_{David Klinghoffer
June 18, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Perhaps out there, watching along with you, is another Professor Dan Stern Cardinale who is imagining how easy it’s going to be to take this one apart. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
May 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, amino acids, building blocks, Center for Chemical Evolution, DNA, early Earth, evolution, Georgia Tech, ideology, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jon Perry, Long Story Short, methodological naturalism, Murchison meteorite, NASA, National Science Foundation, natural processes, null hypothesis, outer space, proteins, recycling, repair, RNA, self-assembly, self-replicating molecule, solar system, Stated Clearly, sugars, University of Chicago, YouTube videos}

On Origin of Life, “Stated Clearly” Has Clearly Misled Viewers

_{Rob Stadler
May 8, 2023

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

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Jon Perry may be a proponent of methodological naturalism, which constrains science to consider only natural causes, regardless of the scientific evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 20, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, cemetery, culture, fertilizer, human bodies, human person, Oregon, recycling, sewage, Soylent Green, trees}

Turning Our Dead into Fertilizer

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 20, 2021

Bioethics

3}

These methods send a powerful symbolic statement that we are essentially nothing more than carbon atoms gathered temporarily in a rational and animated form. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 16, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, ADP, ATP, ATP synthase, cell membrane, cells, cities, citrate, cytoplasm, electron transport chain, Energy, Genome Biology, glucose, intelligent design, machines, metabolism, mitochondria, NADH, protein complexes, pyruvate, recycling}

The Ultimate Recycler

_{Ann Gauger
December 16, 2019

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Right now, within your bodies this little engine is cranking away. Without this machine, oxygen-dependent life could not exist. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 22, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, allegory, apoptosis, arthritis, cancer, cell death, cells, chemotherapy, death, DNA, embryo, Immune System, membranes, multicellular life, Neural Networks, neurons, organelles, pancreas, radiation, recycling, thyroid gland, tissues}

Cellular Self-Sacrifice — And an Allegory

_{Ann Gauger
November 22, 2019

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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No one knows how apoptosis came to be, although there are theories. Even the simplest of animals are programmed for it. Read More ›

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Date
May 4, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, cells, ID the Future, New York City, podcast, recycling, Sarah Chaffee, waste}

Inside the Cell: The City that Never Sleeps

_{Science and Culture
May 4, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Discovery Institute biologist Ann Gauger talks with host Sarah Chaffee about the cell as a bustling city. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
April 20, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and the Genome, amino acids, bacteria, BioLogos, Dennis Venema, DNA, enzyme, frameshift, intelligent design, microevolution, molecular biology, nylonase, plastic waste, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, recycling}

Adaptation in Action Yields a Repurposed Enzyme

_{Ann Gauger
April 20, 2018

Biochemistry, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Nylon-eating bacteria? What the heck?” you say. “Why does this matter?” Read More ›