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By Fazale Rana, Ph.D Spring will soon be upon us. It’s the time of year when a young man’s fancy turns to love (or baseball, if he’s thinking clearly). For my wife, this is the season when she becomes passionate about cleaning out the garage. Unfortunately, no one else seems to share her passion, but [...]
By Stephen Meyer, Ph.D. In a recent volume of the Vienna Series in a Theoretical Biology (2003), Gerd B. Muller and Stuart Newman argue that what they call the “origination of organismal form” remains an unsolved problem. In making this claim, Muller and Newman (2003:3-10) distinguish two distinct issues, namely, (1) the causes of form generation [...]
By Dave Berlinski It is 1828, a year that encompassed the death of Shaka, the Zulu king, the passage in the United States of the Tariff of Abominations, and the battle of Las Piedras in South America. It is, as well, the year in which the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler announced the synthesis of [...]
By Gerald Shroeder, Ph.D. Three facts, agreed upon by skeptics and believers alike, cry out for explanation: the existence of our universe; the existence of life having arisen from seemingly non-living, inert matter built of protons, neutrons and electrons; and the emergence of consciousness, sentience, self-awareness in that life which has arisen from the [...] Review by David Marshall Origin of Life gets off to what seems to me a slow start; the least persuasive part of the book for me was chapter 3, which gave a “RTB (Reasons to Believe) Biblical Creation Model” that seemed to stretch exegesis to the breaking point in places. Does the Bible really [...] By Fazale Rana, Ph.D When someone speaks to you from beyond the grave, you better pay attention. A paper, submitted posthumously on behalf of the late origin-of-life researcher Leslie Orgel, has just been published in the journal PLoS Biology. And Orgel has a message for origin-of-life researchers: metabolic cycles, and consequently, metabolism-first scenarios are unrealistic. This [...] By Fazale Rana, Ph.D. For the last few weeks I have discussed the controversy surrounding Homo floresiensis. (Go here and here to read the past articles.) At times, it seems like anthropologists are all over the place when it comes to determining the identity of this diminutive creature. New research, however, indicates that anthropologists were headed [...] Check out this amazing computer simulation of a molecular level copying machine. This is just one of many reasons why people think that a Higher Intelligence transcends our universe. The atheist looks at this and simply shrugs, saying that it is all part of the natural selection process. But if we walked into an automobile factory today and saw similar machines at work, [...] Famed bio-chemist, Stanley Miller, died earlier this year at the age of 77, no doubt still wondering how non-living molecules became livng molecules (called abiogenesis). Miller is best known for his 1952 experiment in which he combined water, ammonia, hydrogen, and methane gas into a globe-shaped flask, then boiled the solution and jolted it with an electrical discharge to simulate a lightning strike. The [...] The observable fine-tuning in molecular biology is simply mind-boggling (and fascinating!). Here’s a short article on that topic by Dave Rogstad, followed by a computer simulation video. In my undergraduate course in biology at Caltech in the late 1950s, a cell was understood simply as a variety of chemical reactions going on inside a tiny test tube.1 Now, 50 [...] |
  
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