Tag: Proteins | Page 2 | ID the Future

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Rob Stadler

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April 5, 2021

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abiogenesis, amino acids, cell membrane, cell membrane gates, cell membrane pumps, Craig Venter, devolution, diffusion gradient, E. coli, early Earth, Evolution, gene loss, homeostasis, lipid bubbles, membrane, minimal bacterial genome, minimal cell, minimal organism, origin of life, phospholipid, phospholipid bilayer membrane, pre-biotic chemistry, Proteins, protocells, reverse engineering, ribose operon, Richard Lenski, single-celled organisms}

Origin of Life’s Purple Unicorn: Protocells

_{Rob Stadler

April 5, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with Rob Stadler, co-author with Change Tan of The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check. The topic of discussion–protocells. Stadler notes that the simplest existing single-celled organisms are far too sophisticated to have emerged through a blind process of prebiotic evolution. He further notes that this is widely acknowledged in the origin-of-life community, but those committed to a purely materialistic origin of the first life have a fallback explanation–protocells. That is, early biological structures far simpler than anything we find today. An intriguing hypothesis, but the problems with it, according to Stadler, are legion. Tune in as Stadler and Anderson walk through several lines of evidence that appear to break against the much sought-after but ever-elusive protocell.

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James Tour

Date
March 10, 2021

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ability to reproduce, abiogenesis, adaptation to evolution, ammonia, atmosphere of the early Earth, Biological Information, carbohydrates, catalysis, cellular life, characteristics of life, chemical evolution, DNA, early Earth, entropy, enzymes, genetic information, homeostasis, homochirality, lipids, metabolism, molecular degradation, nucleic acids, nucleotides, origin of life, panspermia, polysaccharides, Proteins, reducing atmosphere, response to stimuli, RNA, Sugars, synthetic organic chemistry}

James Tour–A Flyover of the Challenges Facing Abiogenesis

_{James Tour

March 10, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future features the next in a YouTube video series by Dr. James Tour on the origin-of-life problem. Here Tour, a distinguished synthetic organic chemist, lists the characteristics of life and describes some features of the early Earth where life first appeared. Then he provides a fast flyover of the many grave problems of blindly evolving the first living cell from prebiotic materials.

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Michael Behe

Date
December 23, 2020

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amino acids, antibiotic resistance, blood clotting, blood clotting cascade, cells, chloroquine resistance, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, DNA, Eugene Koonin, Evolution, evolutionary pathway, genetic mutations, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jerry Coyne, look-ahead mutation, malaria, molecular biology, Mt. Improbable, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, protein-protein binding, Proteins, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, scientific paradigms, Sean B. Carroll, The Edge of Evolution}

Michael Behe’s Mousetrap on the Edge

_{Michael Behe

December 23, 2020

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On this ID the Future Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe dives deeper into A Mousetrap for Darwin. Behe and host Eric Anderson pivot to the new book’s section defending Behe’s earlier work, The Edge of Evolution. In that earlier book, Behe reviewed hard data from evolution studies of malaria parasites, HIV, and E. coli, showed that blind evolutionary processes face severe limits as to what they can build, and argued that intelligent design was required for the origin of life’s great diversity. In this new conversation Behe touches on some of the attempts to refute that argument and suggests why those refutations fail. For a more in-depth look at his defense of The Edge of Evolution, get your copy of A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics and check out Part 3 of the book.

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Brian Miller

Date
December 14, 2020

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amino acid chains, amino acids, ATP, ATP synthesis, Biological Information, cells, cellular information, chemical evolution, chemical reactions, disorder, DNA, Elbert Branscomb, energy, engines, entropy, enzymes, equilibrium, feedback loops, fidelity, free energy, high energy, improbable states, information, Jeremy England, low entropy, Michael Russell, molecular engines, Molecular Machines, Natural Selection, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, order, origin of life, physical impossibilities, polymers, pre-biology, Proteins, Stanley Miller, Yasir Demirel}

James Tour and Brian Miller Talk Engines We Can’t Live Without

_{Brian Miller

December 14, 2020

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Today’s ID the Future features Part 1 of an extended interview that first appeared on a podcast show hosted by distinguished Rice University synthetic organic chemist James M. Tour. As he typically does, since it’s the Science & Faith podcast, Dr. Tour begins his show by asking his guest for a statement of faith. Miller, a Christian, gives his, and then they dive into origin-of-life science. In a surprisingly accessible discussion given the depth of the material, the pair cover a range of issues—thermodynamics and the origin of the first cell, entropy, free energy, order and disorder, molecular engines, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and the need for engines and information to overcome the vicissitudes of entropy. Also in the mix—feedback loops, Jeremy England, and much more.

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Robert P. Waltzer

Date
July 6, 2020

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__edited, cardiopulmonary system, Charles Darwin, common descent, hemoglobin, information, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, neutral evolution, Proteins, Tree of Life}

In a Nutshell: Three Great Problems for Evolution

_{Robert P. Waltzer

July 6, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid continues his conversation with Robert Waltzer, chair of the department of biology at Belhaven University and co-author of Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, on three big problems faced by naturalistic evolutionary theory. First, it appears that science has turned up several instances of what is known as irreducible complexity, something that Darwin himself said would falsify his theory if ever discovered. Second, various proposed “trees of life” conflict with each other, a problem that has grown worse as additional evidence and methods have arisen, a trend that makes theories of common descent difficult to sustain. And third, we know of no case where information is generated or improved without intelligent action behind it. Evolutionists still hold on to their theories, but why are they not more open at least to debate and criticism? Professor Waltzer suggests multiple possibilities.

Virus protection. Vaccine search. Antibodies and viral infection. Immune defense of the body. Attack on antigens 3D illustration

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Michael Egnor

Date
May 13, 2020

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__edited, Aristotle, chance, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, design inference, Evolution, intelligent agency, Intelligent Design, mutations, Natural Selection, P.Z. Myers, pandemic, Proteins, random mutations, randomness, RNA, specified complexity, virus}

Covid-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

_{Michael Egnor

May 13, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid speaks with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor about Egnor’s recent Evolution News article, The Coronavirus Demonstrates How Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design. Egnor notes that the coronavirus and other viruses are not, strictly speaking, considered living things, even if they depend on living hosts for their continued existence. Egnor also discusses the role of random mutations in viruses and draws upon Aristotle to argue that these and other random events only occur, and have their meaning, against a backdrop of purpose and design — in this case, the designed systems — the bodies — that viruses invade.

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Kirk Durston

Date
March 19, 2020

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__edited, abduction, Atheism, Big Bang, creative story-telling, experimental science, fantastical science, fantasy science, historical science, Inference to the Best Explanation, inferential science, information density, Materialism, multiverse, origin of the universe, philosophy of science, Proteins, science fiction, Scientism}

Kirk Durston on Fantasy Science and Scientism — Pt. 3 of 3

_{Kirk Durston

March 19, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Kirk Durston, a biophysicist focused on identifying high-information-density parts of proteins, completes a three-part series on three categories of science: experimental, inferential, and fantasy science. Fantasy science makes inferential leaps so huge that virtually none of it is testable, either by the standards of experimental science or by those of the historical sciences, which reason to the best explanation by process of elimination. One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse. As he insists, an imaginative story largely untethered from evidence and testing but told using math instead of literary devices is still an imaginative story untethered from evidence and testing. Scientism, “atheism dressed up in a lab coat,” can lead to fantasy science of this kind because it commits itself to materialistic conclusions for philosophical reasons, not scientific ones.

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Kirk Durston

Date
March 11, 2020

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__edited, abduction, Biological Information, DNA, Evolution, experimental science, fantasy science, genetic information, Inference to the Best Explanation, inferential science, Intelligent Design, origin of life, origins science, philosophy of science, Proteins, Science and faith}

Durston on Experimental, Inferential, and Fantasy Science — Pt. 2

_{Kirk Durston

March 11, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, biophysicist and philosopher Kirk Durston continue his discussion of three types of science: (1) experimental science, (2) inferential science, and (3) fantasy science. In this second of three episodes, Durston recaps the three types but focuses on inferential science. He explains how it involves, in the historical sciences, abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation), and he explains how such reasoning can be used as we consider the best explanation for the origin of biological information, and in such a way that it is rooted in observation.

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Kirk Durston

Date
March 9, 2020

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__edited, Biological Information, Christianity, DNA, Evolution, experimental science, fantasy science, genetic information, God, inferential science, Intelligent Design, origin of life, origins science, philosophy of science, Proteins, Science and faith}

Durston on Experimental, Inferential, and Fantasy Science — Pt. 1

_{Kirk Durston

March 9, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, biophysicist and philosopher Kirk Durston discusses his recent article series about three types of science — (1) experimental science, which is generally very trustworthy, with some exceptions; (2) inferential science, which can be trustworthy but often takes huge leaps into the doubtable and dodgy; and (3) fantasy science, which is essentially science fiction masquerading as actual science. In this first of three episodes, Durston focuses on experimental science. Such science is, at its best, reproducible and verifiable. Durston says he has yet to find a true conflict between experimental, reproducible scientific observations and his religious faith. The contradictions he encountered were all between his faith and the inferences that some scientists were drawing from experimental science. Durston and host Andrew McDiarmid then move into a discussion of the reproducibility crisis in experimental science. As Durston explains, without a healthy scientific culture and the right incentives, experimental science can quickly fall into disrepair.

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
February 3, 2020

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__edited, amino acids, Biola University, CalTech, Cambridge University, Dallas Science and Faith Conference, E. coli, enzymes, European Bioinformatics Institute. Probability sampling. Michael Behe, Evolution, flue, HIV, influenza, Intelligent Design, Journal of Molecular Biology, macroevolution, malaria, Microevolution, Molecular Machines, Proteins, random mutations, scaffolds}

Protein Scientist Douglas Axe at the Dallas Area Science and Faith Conference

_{Douglas Axe

February 3, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, guest host Jonathan Witt sits down with molecular biologist Douglas Axe at the recent Dallas Science and Faith Conference. Axe, author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, had his research on protein folds published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, work showing that random mutations are not up to the task of building fundamentally new protein folds from old, a finding that poses a major challenge to modern evolutionary theory. After all, if evolution can’t build something as basic as a new protein fold, how could it build whole new organs and body plans in the history of life? But Witt presents Axe with an objection: Axe couldn’t possibly have tested more than the tiniest fraction of a fraction of all the possible amino acid combinations for the protein he studied, so how can we trust his findings? Tune in to hear Axe’s explanation, and to learn about other lines of evidence confirming his research.