Tag: self-replication

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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
, Adam Rutherford, 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, American Journal of Physics, 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

2}

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, error threshold, forensic biology, ID the Future, Jonathan McLatchie, natural selection, naturalism, podcast, RNA world, self-replicating molecules, 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, 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

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 ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 25, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, bacterial cell division, bacterial cell wall, cell wall, cleavage, evolution, foresight, glycosyltransferases, Gram-negative bacteria, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Mycoplasma, natural selection, penicillin, peptides, self-replication}

Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 25, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate. Read More ›

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post

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 ›