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ATP synthase
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Game Over? Nick Lane Wants Another Inning

Michael Behe described how he attended a conference to hear Nobel laureate John Walker, the world’s expert on ATP synthase, explain how it might have evolved.  Read More ›
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A Mystery: Prebiotic Synthesis of Simple Organic Monomers

In 2010, University College London biochemist Nick Lane stated the primordial soup theory “doesn’t hold water” and is “past its expiration date.” Read More ›
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Scientists Reveal Bacterial T4SS “Biogenesis Machinery”

With cryo-electron microscopy, scientists have zoomed in on a molecular machine that is very different from the Type III Secretion System. Read More ›
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“Ecocide” — Drive to Make Environmental Damage Legal Equivalent of Genocide Accelerates

If either or both of these radical proposals become law, human thriving and economic prosperity will be brought to a screeching halt. Read More ›
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If Human Eugenics Wouldn’t Work, Human Evolution Has a Big Problem

Richard Dawkins got his wings clipped over the weekend, following a claim on Twitter. Read More ›
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A New Low for Evolutionary Ethics

Understand that Big Think is not an obscure web journal by and for a lunatic fringe. Read More ›

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