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(Last updated 7/5/03)

  • A nice article about signal transduction that underscores the organization inherent in cells.
  • A good description of the bacterial flagellum .
  • Scientist, James Shapiro, explains another way to think about evolution. Also, check out Shapiro's Home Page
  • Articles by Behe, Dembski, and Wells.
  • Gould and Lewontin critique adaptationism.
  • Scientist Edwin Taylor briefly surveys the history of cell biology and the emergence of the modern molecular machine concept.
  • An interesting page on panspermy.
  • Proteins: "Among this astronomical number of possible sequences, the majority will not fold into soluble, globular structures."
  • Intelligent cells: A scientist argues that cells are best viewed as "smart" machines.
  • Proteins contain a form of complexity that easily translates into music.
  • Autevolution - An interesting teleological view of evolution with such juicy insights as "To the extent that a future state can be represented by present function, this comes perhaps uncomfortably close to the notion that an end state can be causally effective" and "living organisms are not so much "struggling for survival" as they are modifying and fulfilling function."
  • A review of Simon Conway Morris' book, The Crucible of Creation.
  • And Morris reviews ''Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils,'' by J. William Schopf
  • Morris also reviews Robert Wright's book, Nonzero.
  • Paul Davies home page, complete with many of his papers.
  • The Origins ID site, with essays by Thaxton, Bradley, Dembski, and many more (including Davies' Templeton Address).
  • Cool movies of the ATP synthase, along with more information about this molecular machine.
  • The Chaperonin Home Page and some neat pictures .
  • Back in the 1980s, a physicist anticipates the molecular machines.
  • The Machines of Life : proteasomes, motors, and more.
  • Scientists, Daniel C. Jeffares and Anthony M. Poole, argue that eukaryote-like organisms predate bacterial-like organisms and base this position as an implication of the RNA World. My position is that bacteria-like organisms better reflect the original life forms (I will explain why at a later time), as I do not subscribe to the RNA World.
  • James Shapiro describes his views of evolution in the 21st Century, a view that is quite ID friendly as it easily lends itself to the hypothesis that evolution itself was designed to occur.
  • David Goodsell argues that life informs nanotechnology, something that ID predicts. He notes, "You might be surprised to learn that nanotechnology was perfected more than three billion years ago." and " Biological molecules are proven examples of the feasibility, and the utility, of nanotechnology."
  • An excellent article where chemist George Whitesides argues how "biology outmatches futurists' most elaborate fantasies for molecular robots" and "considering the many constraints on the construction and operation of nanomachines, it seems that new systems for building them might ultimately look much like the ancient systems of biology."
  • Bacteria create natural nanomachines : "The latest technical discoveries in flagella fascinate biologists such as Robert Macnab, a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University who also studies flagella. He marvels at how organisms as simple as bacteria have evolved such complex methods to develop propelling features, especially since motility in bacteria is not directly necessary for survival, like DNA replication or protein synthesis. "We think it would not be possible for the system to work with any significantly lower complexity.""
  • "Much of what we call biology is really nanotechnology ," said Michael J. Heller, a professor of bioengineering.
  • New evidence to suggest the primordial atmosphere contained oxygen.
  • Lots of good stuff on muscles and motility organelles.
  • A great page on the Last Universal Common Ancestor.
  • A nice description of the current consensus among evolutionary biologists.
  • " Molecular phylogeneticists will have failed to find the "true tree," not because their methods are inadequate or because they have chosen the wrong genes, but because the history of life cannot properly be represented as a tree." - WF Doolittle.
  • Tree of Life Turns Out to Have Complex Roots
  • Molecular motors
  • So you think you are a Darwinian?
  • Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability
  • Some Thoughts on Evolvability
  • The Gaia hypothesis
  • A teleologist was the father of modern philosophy of science and the one to invent the term "scientist." More information about Whewell can be viewed here.
  • "I had always been told bacteria were bags of enzymes: there was no organization, and the chromosome, proteins and everything else were simply floating around. There was free diffusion. Untrue, untrue! It is not a swimming pool. Free diffusion is rare, and the bacterial cell is, in fact, compartmentalized." - Lucy Shapiro
  • McClintock's Nobel Prize Speech. "McClintock's work with junior scientists and graduate students persuaded her that she had finally found colleagues who appreciated her work. She had given up trying to convince geneticists that they should pay attention to her theories on genetic control. As she wrote to the British geneticist J. R. S. Fincham in 1973, "I stopped publishing detailed reports long ago when I realized, and acutely, the extent of disinterest and lack of confidence in the conclusions I was drawing from the studies." She announced she would follow her own research rather than seek the approval of her peers." More like this here .
  • DNA codes its own error correction.
  • That suggests that during 530 million years of evolution of life on Earth, genes crucial to embryo development haven't changed as much as once thought.....
  • Rare Earth
  • Viruses evolve humans?
  • Genetic code as a search program (and more)
  • RNA shredders and yet more evidence for the highly organized state of the cell. 
  • Life uses only a small number of protein folds.
  • More evidence that horizontal gene transfer  (HGT) is a major force behind bacterial evolution.
  • That enduring metaphor for the randomness of evolution, a blind watchmaker that works to no pattern or design, is being challenged by two European chemists.
  • Bacterial clocks.
  • Photosynthesis and HGT
  • Dr. Thomas Gold describes what is involved when introducing controversial ideas into science.
  • Dr. Brian Martin’s articles on dissent in science.
  • Welcome to Cell City.
  • Neat picture of the cell’s death machine, the apoptosome.

 

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