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Return of the Lizard Brain? Seems Not
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (453+ words) Yes, the lizard brain is an old favorite of pop psychology. For example, did you know that your lizard brain “fuels overthinking and social anxiety”? The claim that we have a reptilian brain underlying our human one is a staple…...
The Marvel of a Seed — Applications for Intelligent Design
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (536+ words) A few years ago, an article I wrote about the intelligently designed properties of seeds focused on their multicellular complexity and potent reproducibility, far beyond the most advanced human biotechnology. To claim that researchers in synthetic biochemistry have no idea…...
Origin of Life: The Fundamental Challenge
1+ week, 1+ day ago (276+ words) Adami runs through an example. In his example, 100 bits of information are required. This would take about 1030 attempts to produce by random chance. If we generously grant a billion attempts for every second in the half-billion years it took life…...
From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years
1+ week, 1+ day ago (193+ words) From Dr. Selim, “It came as a big surprise to us that one of the earliest life forms on Earth — evolutionarily older and simpler cells — had already developed communication structures regulated by calcium signals similar to those found in the…...
Evolutionary Origin of Information: The Problem of Robustness
1+ week, 1+ day ago (355+ words) Adami presents experiments done using the Avida platform in a series of papers. They increased mutation rate to high levels and found that the evolving Avida programs were able to adapt to a high-mutation rate environment. The genomes were adapted…...
The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research
1+ week, 2+ day ago (503+ words) This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Source In my previous article, I describe how a recent paper proposing chemical pathways to life’s origin recycles failed models and…...
Evolution of New Genes: The Big “If”
1+ week, 3+ day ago (401+ words) Adami says, “Over the years, molecular biologists have collected many examples of the evolution of new functionality” and he cites a review by Long et al. from 2003. This sentence caused me a little trepidation. Did this review contain a list…...
The Non-Binary Delusion: A Biologist????s Attempt to Escape Reality
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1035+ words) But no. According to Berkowitz, “Biological sex is as nuanced as gender.” He’s written a whole book about it. The thesis is in the title: The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes. As he explains in…...
Origin of Biological Information? Nope, Just Its Recycling
2+ week, 4+ day ago (513+ words) Followers of the debate between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution will be familiar with Christoph Adami's example. Source We have been going through Christoph Adami’s book, The Evolution of Biological Information. The last section of his chapter on “Experiments in…...
Avida and Making Eye Evolution Seem Plausible
2+ week, 5+ day ago (159+ words) Adami presents the eye as “a very instructive example of a complex trait that has gradually evolved.” He says that it evolves by the gradual addition of parts to an existing functional system. Each part is constructed by reusing and…...