Occupation: Biochemist Birth: January 18, 1952
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and functio….
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?.
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something else? Everybody - even Richard….
The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling ….
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even a….
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might b….
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life..
The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues..
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he….
Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported ….
We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box..
The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the opposite of Darwinis….
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution….
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complex….
We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of ….
If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines - the basis of life - de….
Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designe….
The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'desi….
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an ….
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is stil….
If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component….