lipid droplets – Uncommon Descent

Cell biology Intelligent Design vestigial organs

Lipid droplets are not just useless fat

It’s getting hard to be a vestigial organ these days. It turns out that just about everything has a job.

bornagain77 Eric Metaxas interviewed James Tour for part of his forthcoming book "Is Atheism Dead?" (Which is to be released Oct.... – Top world chemist, James Tour, to...
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Querius See also Asimov's three or four laws of robotics. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asimovs-laws-wont-stop-robots-from-harming-humans-so-weve-developed-a-better-solution/ Actually, AI is more likely (over time) to resemble "deep... – Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and...
EDTA I meant "unlikely" they are psychopaths.... – Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and...
Querius Silver Asiatic, What is kind of weird is that ID is compatible with that kind of deistic, pan-consciousness – some... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
EDTA If they exhibit large amounts of humility over long periods of time (including when they think nobody else is watching),... – Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and...
polistra Excellent question from Seversky. Most psychopaths can be detected by the pattern of their actions, but their pattern is specifically... – Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and...
Silver Asiatic Querius Some of these atheists gravitate toward some type of “cosmic consciousness,” a sort of safely denatured god. True -... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
Querius Silver Asiatic, The appearance, complexity, and functional design of the universe shouts to us of the existence of a Creator.... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
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ram Seversky: It’s possible. Only if an infinite regress is possible. Hard to believe anyone believes that. – William Lane Craig vs. Lewis Wolpert:...
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Silver Asiatic Bob O'H Err, yes, of course. So? Yes. Of course. As we agreed. We do not know much, if anything,... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
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Querius Bob O'H @94 And yes, I do know what a strange attractor is. I even know that it’s a deterministic... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...