Category: Chemistry
Why on Earth would a layman accept Darwinistic claims?
| March 18, 2013 | Posted by William J Murray under Biology, Chemistry, Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Human evolution, Mind, Origin Of Life |
First, by “Darwinistic” I mean “atheistic-materialist neo-Darwinist”, which includes the view that even the origin of life can be explained by reference to chance and natural law. As Alan Fox points out, many of those here are “laymen” when it comes to evolutionary biology. Most of us are not specifically schooled or trained in that… more
How complex systems can arise from chemical elements
| July 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Irreducible Complexity, News |
If they are directed by thousands of irreducibly complex minds. more
Names proposed for two new chemical elements, 114 and 116
| December 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design, News |
“The official periodic table still contains only 114 elements because elements 113 and 115 haven’t been officially accepted yet.” more
At what temperature must water absolutely freeze? Lower than we might think …
| November 28, 2011 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design, News |
“… in the strange and wacky world of water, tiny amounts of liquid water theoretically still might be present even as temperatures plunge below minus 48 C (minus 55 F)” more
Oxygen found in deep space
| August 2, 2011 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Cosmology |
This is a serious science story, not like this one. From MSNBC, we learn: “Breathe easier: Oxygen molecules found in deep space: For first time, after nearly 230-year search, they turn up in region of Orion nebula.” Which solves a mystery: “Oxygen is the third-most-common element in the universe and its molecular form must be… more
Photographer Lazslo Bencze offers Scrabble letters, viewed by aliens, as analogy to design
| May 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Intelligent Design |
Let us imagine a strange alien race that sets out to learn about humanity. By chance they have encountered a single Scrabble tile imprinted with the letter “e”. Because these aliens are extremely thorough materialists, they undertake to study the tile as deeply as possible. Not only do they subject it to chemical analysis but,… more
Born again evolutionary biologist critiques Gauger-Axe paper
| April 14, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Chemistry, Evolutionary biology |
In “Protein evolution in BIO-Complexity”(Todd’s Blog , April 13, 2011), Todd C. Wood comments on the recent BIO-Complexity paper by Ann Gauger and Doug Axe. He finds their work puzzling because they proceed as biochemists rather than evolutionary biologists, and summarizes: In the larger scheme of things, I am sensing a discouraging pattern to BIO-Complexity publications.… more
Is Craig Venter’s Synthetic Cell Really Life?
| July 23, 2010 | Posted by DonaldM under Biology, Chemistry, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Religion, Science, The Design of Life |
Bioethicist Gregory Kaebnick, Ph.D., has an interesting take on the recently announced synthetic cell created by a team of researchers led by J. Craig Venter at the J. Craig Venter Instititute (JVCI). In a recent article in The Scientist entitled Is the “Synthetic Cell” about Life?, Kaebnick writes: …the technical accomplishment is not quite what… more
Judge rules DNA is unpatentable because it is INFORMATION not extracted chemicals
| March 30, 2010 | Posted by DLH under Biology, Chemistry, Comp. Sci. / Eng., Courts, Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Judge Robert W. Sweet has turned the biotech patent industry into turmoil. See: After Patent on Genes Is Invalidated, Taking Stock By ANDREW POLLACK, March 30, 2010 Although patents are not granted on things found in nature, the DNA being patented had long been considered a chemical that was isolated from, and different from, what… more
Biosemiotics and Intelligent Design
| August 23, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Genomics, Human evolution, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Self-Org. Theory |
Semiotix – Stephen Pain The distinction between “theorising” and “belief” is extremely important because our attitude differs towards them. In a theory the reified concept of the sign does not have an ontological status but an epistemological one. While in belief, the concept has often a clear ontological one. Uexküll believed in his concept of… more
Professor Pinker engages in wishful thinking – dissent is significant among chemists and chemical engineers
| July 24, 2009 | Posted by Gage under Chemistry, Intelligent Design |
As recently noted on this site, in his letter to the Boston Globe, Harvard University psychology Professor Steven Pinker began SHAME ON you for publishing two creationist op-eds in two years from the Discovery Institute, a well-funded propaganda factory that aims to sow confusion about evolution. Virtually no scientist takes “intelligent design’’ seriously, and in… more
Message Theory – A Testable ID Alternative to Darwinism – Part 4
| April 27, 2009 | Posted by Walter ReMine under Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, The Design of Life |
Dobzhansky got it backwards: The unity of life at the biochemical level is evidence for Message Theory, and against evolution. more
Science’s Rightful Place Redux
| March 7, 2009 | Posted by DonaldM under Biology, Chemistry, Constitution, Culture, Darwinism, Laws, Legal, Philosophy, Religion, Science |
Back in January I posted this comment to ask what is science’s “rightful place.” Now it seems we’re getting a clearer picture of the answer as far as the President is concerned. Fox News is reporting that President Obama to issue an executive order on Monday that would lift the restrictions on embryonic stem cell… more
RNA Getting Lengthy
| December 24, 2008 | Posted by Patrick under Biology, Chemistry, Origin Of Life, Self-Org. Theory |
ScienceDaily reports on an interesting experiment relevant to OOL scenarios. With the aid of a straightforward experiment, researchers have provided some clues to one of biology’s most complex questions: how ancient organic molecules came together to form the basis of life. Specifically, this study demonstrated how ancient RNA joined together to reach a biologically relevant… more
Life From Chiral Crystals . . . Really?
| December 18, 2008 | Posted by Patrick under Biology, Chemistry, Origin Of Life, Self-Org. Theory |
The other day I made an offhand comment that the chirality problem was nowhere being solved. Yellow Shark was nice enough to provide a link to new research published in November, 2008. Now I was referring to scenarios which could occur in nature, not in lab conditions, and so I contacted some friends to see… more