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Devolution Evolution Intelligent Design

At Quanta Magazine: By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity

The unanswered question in the article is, “How did the genes develop in the first place?”

Posted on September 23, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(4)
Big Bang Cosmology Food for thought

At Quanta: How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

“Why is there something rather than nothing?”

Posted on August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(85)
Definition of life Intelligent Design Origin Of Life

What is Life?

At Quanta: Without a good definition of life, how do we look for it on alien planets? Steven Strogatz speaks with Robert Hazen, a mineralogist and astrobiologist, and Sheref Mansy, a chemist, to learn more.

Posted on June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(39)
Entropy Origin Of Life

At Quanta Magazine: A New Physics Theory of Life

Jeremy England: “You start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be so surprising that you get a plant,” England said.

Posted on June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(15)
Cell biology Evolution Intelligent Design

At Quanta: Brain-Signal Proteins Evolved Before Animals Did

Researchers found that, “choanoflagellates made protein precursors of two mature neuropeptides, phoenixin and nesfatin.”

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(2)
Solar system formation

At Quanta: Astronomers Reimagine the Making of the Planets

Observations of faraway planets have forced a near-total rewrite of the story of how our solar system came to be.

Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(9)
Intelligent Design thermodynamics and information

At Quanta: Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder

The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability. New arguments trace its true source to the flows of quantum information.

Posted on June 2, 2022June 2, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(4)
'Junk DNA' Genomics Intelligent Design

The complex truth about junk DNA

At Quanta: “Genomes hold immense quantities of noncoding DNA. Some of it is essential for life, some seems useless, and some has its own agenda.”

Posted on September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Author News Comments(3)

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  • Querius Chuckdarwin @121, Since you often forget what ID actually is, I saved one of my responses from last year to... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
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