Category: Biology

Genetic Clocks

[Posted on: 25 February 2025 by Richard Worsley]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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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Gene Complexity

[Posted on: 21 January 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Gene Complexity Showcases Engineered Versitilty

In this video, Richard introduces a recent article by Jeffrey Tomkins about the complexity of the genetic code. Advances in molecular biology in recent years have gradually taken us further and further from the original simplistic view of Darwinian evolution. As we see the revealing of ever increasing complexity in biological systems, we cannot help but to see an ever increasing case for intelligent design.

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Stairway to Life

[Posted on: 18 January 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Stairway to Life

The article referred to by this video is a review of the book ‘The Stairway to Life’ by Change Laura Tan and Rob Stadler. The book highlights a series of steps (twelve in all) which are necessary to bring about life as we know it, and that all the steps must be proven as being possible by evolution, if evolution is to be true. All twelve steps fail in this respect, and yet in spite of overwhelming evidence against it, the Theory of Evolution is still accepted as normal thinking.

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Mendel’s Accountant

[Posted on: 14 January 2025 by Richard Worsley]

Mendel’s Accountant

This post follows on from an earlier post Genetic Entropy and actually links to the same article. In this video, Richard approaches the subject from a slightly different angle, making both videos worth listening to.

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More evidence for Complexity

[Posted on: 04 January 2025 by Richard Worsley]

More evidence for the complexity and ingenuity of life

This video and the associated article look at the way in which our present day knowledge of the complexity of biological systems has broken way past the barriers of what was understood when evolutionary theory was first popularised in the 19th Century. We have more evidence than ever before before that biology is best explained in terms of intelligent design rather than Darwinian evolution. Added to that, we have got to admit that even now, we are far from understanding everything, and that there is yet much more to be discovered.

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DNA in Ancient Bacteria

[Posted on: 31 December 2024 by Richard Worsley]

DNA in ancient Bacteria

In this video, Richard introduces an article which reports on the findings of DNA from bacteria in salt crystals, dated at 250 million years by conventional methods. It should be noted however that:

1. The DNA is well preserved, which could not be the case given many millions of years.
2. The DNA is remarkably similar to that is present day bacteria, which again could not be the case, given the number of mutations that would have occurred over millions of years.

This is yet further evidence in favour of a young earth.

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