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Carpediemonas membranifera

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 31, 2021
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Genetics, Intelligent Design
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A zoologist on that microbe that copies its DNA in a way “unknown to science”

Denyse O'Leary
March 31, 2021
Genetics, Intelligent Design
Tim Standish: Simpler systems do not necessarily come first because simple can be a lot harder to come up with than complex. Yes, that seems counterintuitive, but the history of technology bears that out. In some ways you could say the same about art. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 30, 2021
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Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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At New Scientist: “single-celled organism that lacks most of the molecular equipment needed to kick-start DNA replication”

Denyse O'Leary
March 30, 2021
Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
It's a protist? “Protists are a group of loosely connected, mostly unicellular eukaryotic organisms that are not plants, animals or fungi. There is no single feature such as evolutionary history or morphology common to all these organisms and they are unofficially placed under a separate kingdom called Protista.” In short, just the sort of life form that might be doing something really different. Because nature is full of intelligence, there are probably many alternative programs out there. It all didn’t just somehow happen randomly once. Read More ›