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Denyse O'Leary
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April 5, 2020
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Atheism, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theism
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Archaea discoverer Carl Woese’s theological reflections in old age

Denyse O'Leary
April 5, 2020
Atheism, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theism
It’s a good question whether Woese would have recognized the Archaea for what they were, had he not been in the habit of thinking for himself. Maybe he would have just been satisfied to shoehorn them into the conventional scheme somewhere. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 13, 2020
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Cell biology, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Here’s a question that new ambigram viruses raise

Denyse O'Leary
February 13, 2020
Cell biology, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
“Not a random boo-boo on evolution’s part”? If the field of biology had not organized itself around Darwinian evolution (insert preferred terminology for the same sort of thing here) in the mid-twentieth century, would anyone think that up just now to account for all this? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 4, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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What? Harmful bacteria “masquerade” as red blood cells?

Denyse O'Leary
December 4, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
She explains: “Once we kind of came to that idea, it all sort of fell into place.” Indeed, Madam Professor! You follow brilliantly in the footsteps of Miss Marple. We need intelligence to uncover this because intelligence underlies it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 2, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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“Paraspeckles” are another complex system recently discovered in the cell, responding to stress

Denyse O'Leary
December 2, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
Of course, paraspeckles just happened randomly (“There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows.” Darwin, "Life and Letters," i, p. 278). Even though they somehow work seamlessly with everything else. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 29, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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The bacterial flagellar hook as a universal joint

Denyse O'Leary
November 29, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
A friend points out that the paper just describes the intricate machinery of the hook, adding to what we know, without any resort to Darwinspeak. It seems to be getting safer all the time to just not talk that way any more. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 23, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Cilia are more complex than thought

Denyse O'Leary
November 23, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
"Before this work, everyone assumed these proteins inside cilia just stabilize the structure, which is true for a subset of the proteins, especially when you consider the forces produced by the continuous beating of the cilia," Zhang said. "But based on how they are arranged inside this structure, we believe these proteins are doing many more things." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 13, 2019
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Biology, Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Natural biomolecule measured while acting like a quantum wave

Denyse O'Leary
November 13, 2019
Biology, Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Physics
From the Abstract: The successful realization of quantum optics with this polypeptide as a prototypical biomolecule paves the way for quantum-assisted molecule metrology and in particular the optical spectroscopy of a large class of biologically relevant molecules. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 2, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

Cells’ feedback circuitry is all in the math

Denyse O'Leary
October 2, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
At Quanta: “What math and engineering and biology have in common, at least modern engineering, is enormous hidden complexity,” Doyle said. Take, for example, a cellphone. It seems simple to operate, but underneath, many layers of control circuits are built atop one another. Read More ›
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September 25, 2019
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Cell biology, Origin Of Life
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James Tour: 1 hr lecture on OoL

kairosfocus
September 25, 2019
Cell biology, Origin Of Life

on the mystery of the origin of life: From the blurb: Dr. Tour is one of the world’s top synthetic organic chemists. He has authored 680 scientific publications and holds more than 120 patents (here is a partial list). In 2014, Thomson Reuters named him one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds,” and in 2018 Clarivate Analytics recognized him as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers. Tour is also fearless. He joined more than a thousand other scientists in signing the “Scientific Dissent from Darwinism.” More recently, he has become a thorn in the side of the origin of life research community, offering blunt assessments of the current state of origin of life research. Read more on Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 27, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design

An organism takes shape in 6 min time lapse vid

Denyse O'Leary
August 27, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design

Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six minutes of timelapse. Hat tip Aeon: See also: Before you go: DNA uses “climbers’ ropes method” to keep tangles at bay DNA as a master of resource recycling The amazing energy efficiency of cells: A science writer compares the cell to human inventions and finds that it is indeed amazingly energy-efficient. In addition to DNA, our cells have an instruction language written in sugar Of course it all just tumbled into existence and “natural selection” somehow organized everything. As if. Cells find optimal solutions. Not just good ones. Researchers build “public library” to help understand photosynthesis Wait. “The part of the plant responsible for photosynthesis is like a complex machine Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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August 16, 2019
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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Researchers identify a new sensory organism that detects pain

Denyse O'Leary
August 16, 2019
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
Assuming this holds up, everywhere we look, more systems, more organization, and it all just sort of happened by magic, oops, Darwinism. One wonders, at what point will the inability to distinguish between Darwinism and magic lead to some sort of re-evaluation of the origin of complex specified information in life forms? Read More ›