Tag: ribozymes

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, chemical evolution, Darwinian evolution, early Earth, Gerald Joyce, hype, intelligent agency, intelligent design, investigator intervention, James Tour, Lee Cronin, modern cells, natural processes, nucleotides, PNAS, polymerases, Probability Paradox, protocols, replication, ribozymes, Rice University, RNA, RNA world, Steven Benner, Washington Post}

Fact Check: A “Monumental” Breakthrough in Understanding Life’s Origin?

_{Brian Miller
April 8, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The lauding of Gerald Joyce’s research is pure hype. His results only further demonstrate the absolute necessity of intelligent agency. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioEssays, body plans, cancer, chimpanzees, diseases, DNA, evolution, evolutionary biologists, function, functionality, gene expression, genes, humans, immune response, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk RNA, lncRNAs, molecular biologists, mRNAs, mutations, natural selection, protein translation, proteins, proteome, repetitive DNA, retrotransposons, ribozymes, species, transcription}

Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, base pairs, Bayesian reasoning, BioCosmos, causal circularity, DNA, first life, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, likelihood ratio, mutations, naturalistic philosophy, proteins, replication fidelity, ribonucleotides, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, Sy Garte, teleology}

First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 14, 2023

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

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On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors. Read More ›

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Date
May 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blind processes, chemical evolution, Eric Anderson, intelligent design, Long Story Short, PNAS, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, Rob Stadler, self-replication, Stairway to Life, YouTube videos}

Could Blind Forces Build a Self-Replicating Molecule?

_{Science and Culture
May 15, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Rob Stadler and Eric Anderson examine a recent paper on the origin of life, “An RNA Polymerase Ribozyme that Synthesizes Its Own Ancestor.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, complexity, early Earth, evolution, information, Nature Communications, podcast, press release, proteins, replication, ribozymes, RNA, RNA replication, RNA world, Steven Novella, University of Tokyo, Yale University}

Yale’s Steven Novella Falls for Origin-of-Life Hype

_{Brian Miller
March 24, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

Novella is a prominent atheist who jumped at the chance to promote the secular creation narrative of life’s origin. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 18, 2021

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", amino acids, bioengineering, carbon, copper, elements, Emily Reeves, enzymes, Erika DeBenedictis, heavy metals, hydrogen, intelligent design, iron, junk DNA, materialism, metalloenzymes, metals, nickel, nitrogen, oxygen, proteins, ribozymes, RNA, Scientific Reports, sulfur, zinc}

Do Proteins Lack Metals, Reflecting Poor Design?

_{Casey Luskin
June 18, 2021

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

12}

According to Erika DeBenedictis, “one of the big limitations of biology are the basic building blocks themselves.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 28, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambridge University, chemists, Darrel Falk, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, early Earth, Gerald F. Joyce, prebiotic conditions, Retraction Crisis, Return of the God Hypothesis, ribozymes, RNA self-replication, RNA world, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Times Literary Supplement}

Darrel Falk Badly Mischaracterizes RNA World Experiments. . .and Stephen Meyer

_{Brian Miller
May 28, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design

17}

Falk claims that Meyer misled his readers by not mentioning an allegedly significant newer result. Read More ›

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post

Date
May 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, amino acids, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, anaerobic bacteria, Communications Biology, Darwin-skeptics, E. coli, enzymes, Frontiers in Microbiology, last bacterial common ancestor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, miracles, naturalism, Powerball, ribozymes, spores, sporulation, transfer RNA}

Credulity Is the Soil for Darwin’s Tree

_{Science and Culture
May 12, 2021

Evolution

7}

The secret is to restrict one’s explanations for life to unguided natural events. Once that decision has been made, everything else flows deductively from it. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, enzymes, experiments, information, intelligent design, investigator interference, investigator intervention, nucleotide sequences, nucleotides, polymerase, replication, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, self-replication}

Experiments on “Self-Replicating” RNA Indicate the Need for Intelligent Agency in Life’s Origin

_{Brian Miller
April 10, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Any evolving system of RNAs would quickly include almost exclusively RNAs that performed no biologically useful actions. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 5, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, A Christmas Carol, ATP synthase, Charles Dickens, chemical bonds, chemists, DNA, early Earth, energy production, entropy, enzymes, fluctuation theorems, free energy, genome, India, Inference (journal), information, information processing, James Tour, Jeremy England, media, MIT, molecular machines, molecules, nanotechnology, natural processes, physicists, ribozymes, self-replication, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

Inference Article Demonstrates Implausibility of Natural Processes for Explaining the Origin of Life

_{Brian Miller
May 5, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life

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The piece is highly technical and mathematical, but the basic argument can be quickly summarized with only a marginal loss of technical accuracy. Read More ›