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Origin Of Life

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Author
David L. Hagen
Date
December 17, 2013
Categorized
Academic Freedom, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, theistic evolution

Can Chaos Create?

David L. Hagen
December 17, 2013
Academic Freedom, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, theistic evolution

Or does the observed biochemical complexity imply design? Dr. Granville Sewell finds: Intelligent design theories gaining steam in scientific circles “The debut at #7 on the New York Times best seller list last July of Stephen Meyer’s new book Darwin’s Doubt is evidence that the scientific theory of intelligent design (ID) continues to gain momentum. . . .

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 25, 2013
Categorized
News, Origin Of Life

Early life built Earth’s continents?

Denyse O'Leary
November 25, 2013
News, Origin Of Life
If Spohn and Höning’s model turns out to be persuasive, it will impact sky’s-the-limit claims about life-friendly planets outside our solar system. In the traditional model, we look for planets hospitable to life. In their model, life creates the hospitality, at least on land. So life comes first. Read More ›
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post
Author
David L. Hagen
Date
November 9, 2013
Categorized
Cell biology, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Origin Of Life, speciation, specified complexity
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sRNA for Quorum Sensing: Evidence for CSI?

David L. Hagen
November 9, 2013
Cell biology, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Genomics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Origin Of Life, speciation, specified complexity

Bacteria demonstrate intra-species communication that is species specific using a partner with a communication molecule. Bacteria are also “multilingual” with a generic trade language for interspecies communication. Bacteria control tasks by signal producing and receiving receptors with a signal carrier. The tasks bacteria conduct depend on the concentration they sense of self bacteria versus generic species concentration. e.g. Bacteria control pathogenicity with quorum sensing. The detailed (small) sRNA required for these control mechanisms is now beginning to be desciphered. See below. Question:
Did bacteria “invent” their communication and control methods via evolutionary stochastic processes?
Or do these constitute Complex Specified Information and thus evidence design? Read More ›