Tag: semiconductors

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, carbon-silicon bonds, cells, cytochrome c, directed evolution, enzyme, Frances Arnold, Hendrik F. T. Klare, homochirality, Iceland, intelligent design, Martin Oestreich, materialists, microbes, molecules, natural, New Scientist, pharmaceuticals, polymers, rational thought, Science (journal), semiconductors, silicon, unnatural}

Clarity, Please: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

_{David Coppedge
February 12, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Four Caltech scientists taught “nature” to do the “unnatural” by first isolating a microbe that lives in the hot springs of Iceland. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, analogy, animal behavior, ants, beetles, behavior, brains, electronic circuits, entomology, hummingbirds, miniaturization, Neural Networks, neurons, nucleus, semiconductors, synapses, wasps}

By Design: Brain Miniaturization in Some Very Small Insects

_{Eric Cassell
January 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Does reduced brain size affect the behavior of animals? The answer appears to be that there is no effect. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alaska, copper, COVID-19, electricity, intelligent design, isolation, logic gates, materials, nature, oxygen, radios, semiconductors, silicon, television, voltage, Zoom}

Electronic Technology Shows Foresight in Nature

_{Eric Hedin
October 10, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The principal semiconductors are silicon and germanium; silicon’s abundance in the Earth’s crust is second only to oxygen. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, boron, ceramics, charcoal, copper, fertilizer, Geophysical Research Letters, glass, Guillermo Gonzalez, iron, Jay Richards, magnesium, Periodic Table, plate tectonics, prior fitness, Privileged Species, semiconductors, SpaceX, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Privileged Planet, Turkey}

Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron

_{David Coppedge
August 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

10}

The atomic element boron is essential for life, but how do you get it from stars to plants and animals? Read More ›

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post

Date
September 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, cable bacteria, carbon dioxide, electricity, Elizabeth Pennisi, hydrogen, microbes, proteins, sediments, semiconductors, University of Maryland, University of New South Wales, University of North Carolina}

Design Gets Down and Dirty — Complex Specified Information in Electric Mud

_{Science and Culture
September 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Bacteria that conduct electricity with cables may be involved in everything from cleansing the oceans and enriching the soil to guarding our own teeth. Read More ›