More Complex than Previously Thought – Part X – Internal Organization of Bacteria

A recent paper finds that organization within bacteria is more complex than previously thought: Simple visual inspection of bacteria indicated that, at least in some otherwise symmetric cells, structures such as flagella were often seen at a single pole. Because these structures are composed of proteins, it was not clear how to reconcile these observations [...]

A Naturalistic Fairy Tale-Part XVI

And then did we discover that minerals did co-evolve with life.1 Not that minerals did mutate, but that biological processes did transform the interstellar grains into the thousands of minerals that we find on the Earth today. All of the elements did exist in that early primordial dust, but praise Science that life did transform [...]

Digital Coding in DNA

One way of thinking about DNA is it’s information storage ability. DNA has an information storage capacity that is far beyond anything devised by humans for the amount of space that is used (information storage density). The information stored in DNA is essentially digital in nature. With computer technology, information is stored as a series [...]

Front-loading and genetics

Dave Scott over at Uncommon Descent thinks this paper has some interesting implications for ID. As I read through, I found a few interesting tidbits. (a) the Universal Genome that encodes all major developmental programs essential for various phyla of Metazoa emerged in a unicellular or a primitive multicellular organism shortly before the Cambrian period; [...]