Category: Chemistry
Bacteria make complex antibiotics that give chemists “cold sweats”
| July 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Chemistry |
From Josh Bloom at American Council for Science and Health: I recently wrote about three of the deadly neurotoxins being produced by cyanobacteria (aka blue-green algae) during an ongoing algae bloom in South Florida (See Florida’s Deadly Algae Bloom – Why Is It So Dangerous?). The toxins range from structurally simple and easy for organic […]
What is Randomness? Part 2: Directionality
| June 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics, science education |
From David Nguyen at Think Tank Learning: See also: What is Randomness? Part 1, with David Nguyen: Contextual bias
Experimental physicist Rob Sheldon on the recent merely “plausible” origin of life find
| January 10, 2018 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life |
Yes, re this recent item (paper, public access), Rob Sheldon, our physics color commentator writes, — I’m no chemist, my last class being Organic Chem in college, but I’ll take a stab at this paper. Like most of these Origin-of-Life papers, the chemistry is awesome, the interpretation, well, a bit pretentious. OOL Theories: Among the favorite […]
Guest Post — Template-Assisted Ligation: A New OOL Model
| December 15, 2017 | Posted by kairosfocus under biosemiotics, Cell biology, Chemistry, Food for thought, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Information, Origin Of Life, Self-Org. Theory |
Dr E. Selensky occasionally requests that UD posts an article on his behalf. What follows is his latest: ______________ Arguably, the RNA world model is excessively complex: it operates too complex structures and involves too complex interactions. The origin of life, some researchers believe, must have been simpler.In an attempt to close the gap between […]
Is OOL Part of Darwinian Evolution?
| June 27, 2017 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Chemistry, Darwinism, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Evolution, Origin Of Life |
Recently I had a lengthy discussion with an acquaintance about evolution and the various concepts and claims that we find under the heading of the word “evolution.” At one point I brought up the origin of life and he promptly insisted: “that’s not part of evolution.” “Perhaps,” I offered, “but consider that the origin of […]
On the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing molecular machines ….
| October 11, 2016 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, News |
Awarded to Drs. Frasier Stoddart, Ben Feringa, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage. From Akshat Rathi at Quartz: Stoddart’s inspiration came from nature. All life is powered by tiny biological machines that nature has had billions of years to perfect. The most fundamental processes of life, such as translating genetic code to make proteins or ensuring that cellular […]
Brazilian chemist explains how intelligent design informs his science
| September 28, 2016 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design |
We talk to Marcos Eberlin, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Lab, Brazil: 1. Enezio tells me you are interested in the concept of design in nature. Do you relate it to your work in mass spectrometry or to other, larger issues, or both? J. J. Thomson, the father of mass spectrometry—the man who discovered the electron and won the Nobel […]
Miserable Creatures
| September 12, 2016 | Posted by William J Murray under Atheism, Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Darwinism, Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary materialism's amorality, General interest, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Mind, Naturalism, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality |
Imagine if atheistic materialism was actually true and humans are nothing more than biological automatons – complexly programmed and reactive robots that behave and think in whatever manner happenstance chemical interactions dictates at any given time. Let’s think about what would actually mean. There would be no way for a biological automaton to determine whether […]
Evolutionary Theorists Discover How mp4 Videos Work
| June 17, 2016 | Posted by Eric Anderson under 'Junk DNA', Chemistry, Complex Specified Information, Engineering, Information, Just For Fun |
Over on this thread we’ve had a lively discussion, primarily about common descent. However, one of the key side discussions has focused on the information required to build an organism. Remarkably, some have argued that essentially nothing is required except a parts list on a digital storage medium. Yes, you heard right. Given the right […]
Harry Kroto, fullerene discoverer (1939–2016)
| May 4, 2016 | Posted by News under Atheism, Chemistry, Science |
From Chemistry World: Nobel prize-winning chemist and past president of the Royal Society of Chemistry Harry Kroto died on Saturday 30 April aged 76. Kroto was awarded the 1996 chemistry Nobel prize, along with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley, for the discovery of fullerenes, and was knighted the same year. More. He was also an […]
Alicia Cartelli on Abiogenesis
| January 15, 2016 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Chemistry, Origin Of Life |
Please see the note and apology at the end of this post. —– Over on a recent thread Alicia Cartelli responded to my request that if she had “an idea how abiogenesis works” I would post it as a head post for discussion. I have not yet had time to parse through all this, other […]
Abiogenesis Challenge
| November 16, 2015 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Chemistry, Origin Of Life |
Over on a recent thread, we witnessed some flailing about with respect to abiogenesis (see comments 374-376). Thoroughly confused about critical distinctions, such as the difference between deterministic forces and contingent possibilities, some seem to think that the fact that “nature forms stars and planets” means that nature can do just about anything. No need […]
Is water still in many ways a mystery?
| June 13, 2015 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design, News |
Apparently yes. From Nautilus: Five Things We Still Don’t Know About Water Including: There is something remarkable about the mist surrounding Niagara Falls: The individual droplets move as if they are negatively charged. Together with his colleagues, David Chandler, of the University of California, Berkeley, used a theory capable of describing such rare events, called […]
High profile chem journals are retracting papers …
| March 17, 2015 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design, News |
Here. … Notices of concern regarding papers in Science2, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS)3,4,5, Journal of Material Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry and Chemical Science have been published in the past few months and now the first retractions of these papers has been coming into effect – one paper in Science2 and three in JACS. […]
Researchers: Chemical evidence of life on Earth 3.2 billion years ago?
| February 19, 2015 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
3.2 bya, life was pulling nitrogen out of the air and converting it to support larger communities, they say.
We Have a Live One, Folks — Information Redux
| May 1, 2014 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Chemistry, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Information, Origin Of Life, Selective Hyperskepticism |
My first post on UD, a mere 6 weeks ago, covered some basic principles about information. Specifically, I addressed the misunderstandings of those who deny that there is anything special about the information contained in, say, DNA, as opposed to a pile of rocks or Saturn’s rings. We had a very productive discussion, with a number of issues explored. […]
Self-study science programs for IDists, organic chemistry
| April 25, 2014 | Posted by scordova under Chemistry, News |
At the school where I received my Master of Science degree in Applied Physics, the basic undergraduate cost was $61,000 per year. Thankfully I wasn’t an undergrad there! I remember during commencement, I thought to myself as each undergrad crossed the stage to receive their diploma, “another quarter million dollars for academia.” I could go […]
Salt experiment breaks known chemistry rules?
| December 27, 2013 | Posted by News under Chemistry, News |
Researcher says that at 200,000 atmospheres they found “”crazy compounds that violate textbook rules.” If valid, this could be relevant to planet science.
Relevance of coin analogies to homochirality and symbolic organization in biology
| December 22, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Chemistry |
The problem of homochirality in biology does not have prominence in ID literature because it is unglamorous and there is hesitation to endorse homochirality as evidence of design because of the fear there will be some future discovery in chemistry that will over turn it. But the sword of uncertainty cuts both ways, and if […]
