Tag: sodium

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
December 3, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, ambient temperature, amino acids, bones, breast milk, butterflies, campfire, Carl Jung, clouds, coincidences, Discovery Institute, Doctor's Diary (series), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, enzyme, femur, Florence, glucose, Harvest House, humerus, ice, iron, Michael Denton, moths, Mount Rushmore, nucleotide, Oregon, oxygen, Pacific Northwest, potassium, sodium, synchronicity, The Design Inference, vitamin B12, water, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence

_{Geoffrey Simmons
December 3, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Medicine

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I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
September 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, brainstem, cell membrane, cells, chemicals, death, diffusion, evolutionary biologists, extracellular fluid, extraterrestrial life, Günter Bechly, hospice, information, just-so stories, liquid water, molecular machines, multicellular organism, neurons, osmosis, proteins, sodium, sodium ions, sodium-potassium pump, Steve Laufmann, The Extracellular Space (series), The Wonder of Water, water, Your Designed Body}

Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

_{Howard Glicksman
September 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

15}

The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
June 27, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, Cell (journal), cell membrane, embryo, Evolution News, father, glycolysis, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, mother, newborn, oxygen, placenta, potassium, sodium, Steve Laufmann, The Scientist, University of Cambridge, uterus, Your Designed Body, zygote}

Let’s Think About a Zygote Like an Engineer

_{Howard Glicksman
June 27, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Actually, life is a series of millions of hard problems that have to be solved all the time, or else. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, blood pressure, death, degradation, Eric Anderson, health, heart, Howard Glicksman, human body, hypothalamus, ID the Future, kidneys, life, medicine, podcast, receptors, salt, sodium, water}

Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 1, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Medicine

2}

Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, effectors, Eric Anderson, health, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, physicians, sensors, sodium, systems, water}

How We Balance Water and Sodium to Maintain Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 30, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

1}

On their own, the laws of nature don’t tend toward life. To stay alive, living things utilize ingenious solutions. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, complexity, fish, gills, Illustra Media, intelligent design, ions, Joseph Condeelis, Journal of Experimental Biology, kidneys, Lad Allen, life cycle, Living Waters, muscles, navigation, nerve cells, nerves, Nobel Prize, olfaction, Pacific Salmon, potassium, PubMed, salmon, senses, sodium, spawning, University of New Mexico, urine}

Appreciating the Irreducibly Complex Design of Salmon Osmoregulation

_{David Coppedge
January 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

Three main things must occur for the young salmon, called a smolt, to prepare for life in the salty ocean. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biophysicists, cave fish, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, dog breeds, engineering model, environmental conditions, evolutionary theory, gene regulatory network, hair, intelligent design, James Shapiro, maize, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, sodium, temperature, yeast}

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

_{Brian Miller
September 24, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

8}

Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Read More ›

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Date
August 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, barometer, blood pressure, Eric Anderson, evolution, hormones, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, intelligent design, kidneys, podcast, Science Daily, sodium, Systems Biology}

Blood Pressure — And Genuflecting to Evolution

_{Science and Culture
August 26, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

2}

Systems biologists assume for the sake of research that a biological system under investigation is optimally engineered. Read More ›

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Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, calcium, cobalt, Communications Earth & Environment, Design of Life, enzymes, Flight: The Genius of Birds, Freeman Dyson, Freshwater, Geophysical Research Letters, glaciers, Greenland, ice, Illustra Media, iron, krill, magnesium, manganese, materialists, metals, Michael Denton, molybdenum, PNAS, potassium, Privileged Species, rivers, sodium, The Wonder of Water, trace elements, vitamin B12}

Glaciers Enhance the Biosphere — By Design

_{Science and Culture
December 23, 2020

Intelligent Design

7}

Glacial meltwater performs unexpected and surprising roles that benefit life on earth. Read More ›

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Date
April 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __k-review, ATP, conformational changes, copper, ions, iron, Maxwell’s demon, metabolism, molecular biologists, Nature (journal), Nobel Prize, PNAS, potassium, proteins, Roderick MacKinnon, Science Advances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selectivity filters, sodium, transport}

Security Gates in the Cell

_{Science and Culture
April 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

8}

A key characteristic of life is active transport: control over what enters and exits the cell. Closer looks reveal exquisite “selectivity filters” with moving parts that make active transport work. Read More ›