Fast-folding protein machines by chance: Science Daily admitted that there exists an “astronomically large number of other possible forms” that protein chains can fold into, but somehow they get it right every time, even within fractions of a second too quick to observe. How did that happen? According to evolutionary thought, the universe’s premiere gambler, evolution, had plenty of opportunities to roll the dice: “Proteins are made of long linear chains of amino acids, which have evolved over millions of years to self-assemble extremely rapidly — often within thousandths of a split second – into a working nanomachine.”
Sex, rock & roll: How did sex originate? In ‘Sex born from hard rock and heavy metal,” New Scientist reporter Will Ferguson said it’s easy; just add granite. The granite that started erupting onto the crust two billion years ago wasn’t trying to invent anything, Ferguson knows; sex was just an unintended consequence of granite’s erosion providing more variety of elements for evolution to play with. This lottery was won on one of the first draws, too: “The findings offer further evidence that evolution on land may have commenced far earlier than previously thought,” he quoted a scientist stating. (Ferguson did not connect the dots between complex life and sex).
Sex, rock & roll: How did sex originate? In ‘Sex born from hard rock and heavy metal,” New Scientist reporter Will Ferguson said it’s easy; just add granite. The granite that started erupting onto the crust two billion years ago wasn’t trying to invent anything, Ferguson knows; sex was just an unintended consequence of granite’s erosion providing more variety of elements for evolution to play with. This lottery was won on one of the first draws, too: “The findings offer further evidence that evolution on land may have commenced far earlier than previously thought,” he quoted a scientist stating. (Ferguson did not connect the dots between complex life and sex).
Taken for granite: PhysOrg reporters watched the gambling table and validated the winnings: “Now scientists have discovered that granite played an important role in a major episode over 1.5 billion years ago, which eventually led to human life on Earth.”
Taken for granite: PhysOrg reporters watched the gambling table and validated the winnings: “Now scientists have discovered that granite played an important role in a major episode over 1.5 billion years ago, which eventually led to human life on Earth.”
Gambler’s hunch: The origin of life remains a “puzzling question” to astrobiologists, but Harry Lonsdale (himself a chemist and entrepreneur) is willing to spend up to $2 million of his money to fund research on the puzzle. The article on Astrobiology Magazine admits that natural selection doesn’t work before replication, leaving chance alone as the cause of the first self-replicating entity (see online book).
Since evolution seems to have been on a roll with the lottery, it sounds like a good bet for a gamblin’ man. Strange that there aren’t many other gamblers investing, though (except NASA, which has its own hunches that life began in outer space). Reporter Nola Taylor Redd noted that there are “very little international or multinational opportunities” for astrobiologists to research the mystery of life’s origin – a question that remains unanswered (by evolutionists) ever since Darwin looked into his imaginary warm little pond.
Since evolution seems to have been on a roll with the lottery, it sounds like a good bet for a gamblin’ man. Strange that there aren’t many other gamblers investing, though (except NASA, which has its own hunches that life began in outer space). Reporter Nola Taylor Redd noted that there are “very little international or multinational opportunities” for astrobiologists to research the mystery of life’s origin – a question that remains unanswered (by evolutionists) ever since Darwin looked into his imaginary warm little pond.
Evolutionists, be forewarned: we are saving up all these quotes for a gigantic laugh fest after your Bearded Buddha idol topples.
Do you have any idea how many emergencies are resolved inside your body every day without your conscious knowledge or control? Here are just 3 examples.
Do you have any idea how many emergencies are resolved inside your body every day without your conscious knowledge or control? Here are just 3 examples.
Sugar cops: The surfaces of many body cells are covered with what look like a thin forest, where the trees are sugar molecules. A recent article on PhysOrg explained how this is a frontier of biology: “The “glycome”—the full set of sugar molecules in living things and even viruses—has been one of the least understood domains of biology, the article said, but the glycome “encodes key information that regulates things such as cell trafficking events andcell signaling.” Largely independent of the genetic code, which builds proteins, the glycome represents another kind of code or signalling system vital to health.
Tissue graveyard: When epithelial cells (common in body tissues) die, how are they disposed of? A kind of burial at sea takes place automatically as neighboring cells squeeze out the bad cell, Current Biology said (Current Biology, Volume 22, Issue 11, R453-R455, 5 June 2012, 10.1016/j.cub.2012.04.036). It’s called “crowding-induced live cell extrusion.” This is important because “To maintain a functional and harmonious epithelial society, the number and quality of cells need to be tightly controlled,” Katoh and Fujita emphasized.
