Could an asteroid impact really spark life? A recent AGU Advances paper says early asteroid impacts might have cracked Earth’s crust and made large hot-water systems where life could have begun.1 But the main problem remains: the study gives a possible opportunity for chemistry to happen, but it doesn’t show how dead chemicals made the coded systems needed for life.
The paper simply suggests large im... More...
Imagine an intersection where the red stop sign suddenly means, “Right turn only.” Most drivers wouldn’t reach their destinations efficiently or safely if their traffic signs changed meaning. Yet inside one tiny pond organism, something similar is happening—and the system still operates.
Conventional scientists recently studied a microscopic ciliate called Oligohymenophorea sp. PL0344 and found that... More...
A pile of metal, wires, and computer chips will not assemble itself into a working airplane. The parts may have useful properties, but they still need plans, controls, and an ordered process of assembly as well as someone to assemble them all. The same problem applies to claims about the origin of life. Researcher Yongdong Jin has proposed that tiny mineral particles, called nanozymes, may have helped life arise on what conventional scienti... More...
Conventional scientists have been baffled for many years by the small arms of Tyrannosaurus rex. To many, they just seem disproportionately small compared to other theropod dinosaur arms. The question is often asked: What use could these tiny arms be for such a large predator? A recent study claims to have solved this enduring enigma.1 And yet, a simple visit to a playground teeter-totter would have likely saved them a lot... More...
A butterfly wing may look like painted glass, but beneath its beauty is a living control system. A recent study on South American butterflies and a day-flying moth found a striking theme. Two genes, ivory and optix, help make similar colors in insects that conventional scientists place far apart on the family tree.1 The study presents this as evidence that evolution has repeated itself. Yet the finding points to a s... More...
Even the smallest living cells face a big design problem. How do they keep the right shape while many parts inside them are moving? A recent study in Science considered this question in regards to a blue-green bacterium called Anabaena.1 The researchers studied a protein system that helps the cell keep its shape. Conventional scientists call this an example of evolution “repurposing” DNA-moving machinery... More...
Cactus flowers have a striking range in size—they can be smaller than a grain of rice or longer than a school ruler. Such variation points to how God designed living things with room to adapt while also placing limits on what they can become.
A recent Biology Letters study reports that cactus groups with faster-changing flowers tend to form new species faster.1 Jamie Thompson and Chris Venditti studied flo... More...