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God’s Protein Pump

Posted on: 25 May 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

God's Protein Pump

This post is named after the associated article from the Institute for Creation Research. We now know that the cell is a highly complex piece of machinery, and textbooks describing cellular anatomy are now well in excess of 1400 pages. This complexity is still not fully understood, as more continues to be discovered. Much of the machinery is driven by proteins, which are themselves highly complex and highly organised molecular structures. The Apostle Paul stated that we are without excuse with all the visible evidence for creation, and this could not be more true than in recent decades, as major discoveries have been made in the field of molecular biology.


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DNA Detangling Motors

Posted on: 22 May 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

DNA Detangling Motors

This video and the related article look at the subject of the DNA detangling mechanism. DNA is an extremely long molecule, with two twisted strands intertwined. A DNA molecule is replicated by a process in which the two strands are unwound, and a matching strand built upon each of the two components. Because of the tightly twisted nature of a DNA molecule, this would not be possible without some sort of mechanism to protect the strands against getting tangled up during the process. The mechanism needed to carry this out effectively is extremely complex, and can only be the work of an intelligent designer.


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Review of ‘A Mousetrap for Darwin’

Posted on: 19 May 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

Review of 'A Mousetrap for Darwin'

In this article, Richard refers to an article which reveiws the book 'A Mousetrap for Darwin' by Michael Behe. Professor Behe is a leading member of the Intelligent Design Movement, and this book is an update following his original book 'Darwin's Black Box' from 25 years earlier. It addresses the issue of irreducible complexity, which is the idea that the design of a complex machine cannot evolve in phases, because all parts need to be functional for all the others to server any useful purpose. He uses the mousetrap as a simple illustration, as this is easier for the layman to understand than say, a complex protein molecule.


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The Bacterial Flagellum

Posted on: 31 March 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

Irreducible complexity - Bacterial Flagellum

This video and article, make reference to the work of Prof. Michael Behe, who back in the 1990s, introduced the concept of "irreducible complexity" in biological systems. This concept relates to the idea that working systems are so complex, that they have to be fully in place in order for any part of them to be of any use. One of the key examples used is that of the bacerial flagellum, which is the device used to propel and provide mobility to a bacterial cell. Given that many biological systems are irreducibly complex, the only reasonable conclusion is that they must be the work of an intelligent designer rather than via a process of evolution and random mutations.


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Evolution Impossible – Too Much Complexity

Posted on: 15 March 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

Evolution Impossible - Too Much Complexity

In this video, Richard introduces an article, which amongst others, demonstrates how the recent increase in understanding of the incredible complexity of biological systems across various cell types, can only serve to undermine the credibility of evolutionary theory based on the idea of random mutations.


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Genetic Clocks

Posted on: 25 February 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

Genetic Clocks - evidence for a recent creation

This video and article look at the subject of genetic clocks, which is about creating a picture of genetic history given observed rates of mutations. If one takes away the assumption of an evolutionary timescale, some of the evidence clearly points to a recent creation about 6000 years ago. This is especially true of mitochondrial DNA (passed down the female line) and the Y chromosome (passed down the male line).


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Epigenetics an Argument for Design

Posted on: 21 February 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

Epigenetics an Argument for Design

This video and article talk about epigenetics, which refers to the processes by which DNA can adapt to different situations. Experiments with plant breeding under constrained environmental conditions have demonstrated clearly that the plants will adapt accordingly over a number of generations. This is an area that requires a lot more research in order to understand the mechanisms more fully, but it is becoming increasingly clear that complex pre-programming in the genetic code is involved, pointing all the more to the work of a highly intelligent designer.


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How marvelous are Your works!

Posted on: 17 February 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

How marvelous are Your works!

In the article which Richard introduces here, we see how the full human genetic code has now been unravelled, and how the resulting complexity that is revealed shows all the more that it cannot have all happened by chance, yet again pointing to the wondrous work of God as Creator.


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Absence of Universal Genes

Posted on: 07 February 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

Absence of Universal Genes

In this video, Richard refers to an article about research that has been done in the comparison of DNA between a large number of species. The pecentage of DNA that is universal across all species is extremely small, which is inconsistent with the idea of a common ancestry. For the bulk of DNA, nearly a quarter is unique to each individual species, while the rest, whilst neither unique nor universal, is consistent with the idea of common design features. We are told the God created everything according to its kind.


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Genetic Complexity

Posted on: 02 February 2025 by Richard Worsley
Posted in: [Creation and World History]  [Biology] 

Genetic Complexity

This video makes reference to a detailed series of five articles on the tRNA subsystem, which is part of the mechanism within a cell by which DNA patterns are translated into the blueprint for manufacturing protein molecules. The point to note that this is in itself a highly complex process and yet forms only a small part of the cell's overall system. Looking at the amazing complexity of the cell and the way that it operates so incredibly well, we can only reasonably conclude that it has to be the work of an intelligent designer. Also it should be noted that for the cell to continue to operate in a fully functional manner, random genetic mistakes could only be tolerated over a relative short time span (i.e. thousands as opposed to millions of years).


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