In the recent thread “That’s gotta hurt” Bill Cole states: I think over the next few years 3 other origins (my note: together with OOL), will start to be recognized as equally hard to explain: The origin of eukaryotic cell: difficult to explain the origin of the spliceosome, the nuclear pore complex and chromosome structure. The origin of multicellular life: difficult to explain the origin of the ability to build complex body plans. The origin of man: difficult to explain the origin of language and complex thought. That thought is perfectly correct. There are, in natural history, a few fundamental transitions which scream design more that anything else. I want to be clear: I stick to my often expressed opinion … Continue reading The highly engineered transition to vertebrates: an example of functional information analysis