Skip to content
Friday, March 24, 2023

Uncommon Descent

Serving The Intelligent Design Community

  • Home
  • News Desk
  • Resources
    • Frequently raised but weak arguments against Intelligent Design
    • ID Defined
    • Glossary
    • Archive of Posts by Michael Behe
    • Darwinian Debating Devices
  • Archives
  • Comment Policy
    • Moderation
    • Put a Sock In It
  • About
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy
  • Home
  • apoptosis

Tag: apoptosis

Cell biology Darwinism Intelligent Design

How cells signal that they should be killed

Again, a complex signalling system that supposedly just so happened and in this case it doesn’t function for the protection of the cell but for it’s elimination.

Posted on March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Author News Comment(0)
Cell biology Intelligent Design

Cells ordered to commit suicide don’t necessarily die

Isn’t that remarkable? The phenomenon that enables cells to avoid committing suicide when “ordered” to do so (apoptosis) is so old that it goes back to the common ancestor of flies and mice. How much time was there for such a complex system to evolve purely randomly, as in a Darwinian scheme?

Posted on November 14, 2020November 14, 2020 Author News Comments(2)
Intelligent Design Neuroscience

Researchers: Neurons are programmed for long life, not like other cells

From UCal Riverside: The study, published in the journal Neuron, identifies a mechanism the researchers say is triggered at neuron birth to intrinsically decrease a general form of cell death — or “apoptosis” — specifically in neurons.

Posted on July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Author News Comment(1)
Cell biology Intelligent Design

Cell death as intelligent design

ENST: “Cells contain self-destruction kits, like spies with poison pills for use if captured. The poison pills consist primarily of the caspase family of proteins.”

Posted on July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 Author News Comments(8)

Advertisements

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Search

Advertisements

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Donate

Help us to continue generating quality content and reliable website service.

Recent Comments

  • Querius Origenes @368, The designer and the watch do not fall into the same category. Similarly, the thinker and his thoughts... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • relatd AF at 380, Yes, they are happening right now. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints investigates miracles. It is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • Querius Origenes @360, WRT Alan Fox I will ignore Alan Fox from now on, for deliberately misquoting Querius in #267; see... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • Querius Kairosfocus @353, Great post! One would hope that in 50 years, objectors would acknowledge basic points, but that has patently... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • Alan Fox Simplifying. Are miracles happening now? Where's the evidence? – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • PyrrhoManiac1 @11 You say its okay to deliberately kill a guy unconscious in the emergency room, because it’s like killing an... – Give Dawkins credit for guts: He...
  • jerry the seeds of racism are in all of us Distrust of others is built in. It’s a survival instinct. But... – Darwin a slavery abolitionist? Aw, come...
  • relatd CD at 11, Nothing surprises me anymore... – Darwin a slavery abolitionist? Aw, come...
  • jerry Can we estimate, given, for the sake of arguments that deviations from the laws of the universe happen to living... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • chuckdarwin Relatd/9 Although I don’t eat from a bowl on the floor, I do occasionally drink out of the toilet…… – Darwin a slavery abolitionist? Aw, come...
  • martin_r CD @40 of course, we don't know as much as you do ... – Of Dragonflies, Spitfires and Elliptical Wings
  • chuckdarwin Martin r/ Of course you do…… – Of Dragonflies, Spitfires and Elliptical Wings
  • Alan Fox Why don’t you pursue it?I will certainly keep an eye out for such an event but gathering evidence might be... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • jerry The necessary discontinuity with say the second law of thermodynamics being violated would be Earth-shattering news Why don’t you pursue... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • doubter It seems to me, Hawking just replaced one irrationality with another, and still makes the egregious error of sticking with... – Stephen Hawking’s co-author: Hawking thought that...
  • relatd Regarding abortion. The whole point is to kill a human being as opposed to a "blob of tissue" as it... – Give Dawkins credit for guts: He...
  • Alan Fox There is no scientific theory of ID.Bold of you to say so, Jerry. Explains why no-one had been able to... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • jerry You should probably let KF, BA, UB, etc. know They know. Anyone who believes ID is a scientific theory confuses... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • critical rationalist There is no scientific theory of ID. You should probably let KF, BA, UB, etc. know. It would save them... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • relatd AF at 359, You're very good at it. I suggest you stop... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
  • relatd PM1 at 7, With all due respect, don't you dare speak about "most of us" unless you have polling data... – Darwin a slavery abolitionist? Aw, come...
Copyright © 2023 Uncommon Descent. All rights reserved.
Theme: Newspaper Plus by ThemeCentury. Powered by WordPress.