Tag: self-replication

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __trending, artificial cell, bioengineers, biomolecules, Casey Luskin, CNN, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, genetic material, intelligent design, living cells, machinery, Mary Shelley, media, metabolism, molecular machines, natural environment, New York Post, nutrients, pasta, proteins, replications, ribosomes, science reporters, scientists, self-replication, SpudCells}

Luskin on SpudCell in NY Post: It’s NOT Alive!

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2026

Biology, Evolution

2}

Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's horror novel came closer to creating life, based on misunderstandings of her own about “experiments of Dr. [Erasmus] Darwin.” Read More ›

Reading hobby learning animal curious monkey book

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheists, Casey Luskin, chemical evolution, evolution, evolutionary creation, faith and science, ID the Future, living cells, naturalistic evolutionary processes, origin of life, self-replication, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book), theology}

Did God Use Evolution to Produce Life? Why Theistic Evolution Fails

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 19, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

3}

The central scientific issue with theistic evolution is that it inherits all the scientific problems associated with the standard evolutionary account. Read More ›

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cellular life, Charles Darwin, Darwinian mechanism, design logic, eukaryotic cell division, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, Latin, modifications, self-replication}

Why Cell Division Challenges Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 28, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

The eukaryotic cell cycle is just one of the many biological systems and processes that could not have arisen by numerous, successive, slight modifications. Read More ›

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cell division, cellular life, Charles Darwin, checkpoints, effectors, foresight, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, podcast, self-replication, sensors, spindle assembly checkpoint}

Engineered Elegance: Checkpoint Pathways of the Cell Cycle

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 23, 2025

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

One of the most incredible features of cellular life is the capability of self-replication. Read More ›

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post

Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, codons, Darwinists, Denis Noble, DNA, evolution, genome, germline, information, intelligent design, medicine, proteins, Richard Dawkins, RNA, self-replication, The Guardian, The Selfish Gene, unguided processes}

Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis

_{Daniel Witt
May 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Leading the charge against the model is — of all people — one of Dawkins’s own doctoral examiners at Oxford, the renowned physiologist Denis Noble. Read More ›

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post

Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astronomers, black hole, cells, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, information, intelligence, intelligent design, James Barham, James Shapiro, life, Michael Levin, Mind Matters, natural, naturalism, panpsychism, self-replication, sentience, signaling, symbiosis, teleology, Tufts University, University of Chicago, unnatural, vitalism}

What Is the Essence of Life?

_{Eric Hedin
February 7, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

8}

The strength of the intelligent design explanation for life lies in its full-orbed ability to address all aspects of life. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", biopolymers, chemical evolution, DNA, Energy, evolution, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, lipids, living systems, molecular machines, Ohio State University, Paul Sutter, proteins, replication, RNA, self-replication, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Universe Today, Walter Bradley}

Astrophysicist: “We Do Not Yet Know How, Where, or Why Life First Appeared”

_{Casey Luskin
January 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

6}

It’s good to find another scientist — with no connections to intelligent design — who sees the issue so clearly. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, accuracy, biological information, chemical evolution, code, DNA, genome, information, James Tour, Long Story Short, researchers, self-replication, YouTube videos}

Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not

_{David Klinghoffer
November 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold. Read More ›

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Bayesian reasoning, chemical evolution, DNA, error catastrophe, ID the Future, Jonathan McLatchie, natural selection, naturalism, podcast, RNA world, self-replication}

Another Headache for the RNA World Theory

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 27, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

2}

Before a trial and error process like natural selection can even get started, self-replicating molecules must have a minimal accuracy rate. Read More ›

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post

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, proteins, 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

6}

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