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Intelligent Design | Overwhelming Evidence Page 1 of 14 HOME CONTRIBUTE BLOGS FORUMS LATEST NEWS ABOUT Highest Users Featured Book Intelligent Design User Points oleary 2709 Saving Darwin’s Soul: Does His 21st Century Fate Rest SChen24 517 on Fighting 19th Century Battles? Patrick 445 johnadavison 406 Uncommon Descent - 1 hour 38 min ago BobMort 262 This week marks the publication of the Darwin book that has so far received more the most advance publicity in the UK, Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins, by Adrian Desmond and James Recent blog posts Moore (Allen Lane). Desmond and Moore, both together and separately, have The intelligent design written some of the best histories of the Victorian life sciences, including a community and the best-selling biography of Darwin. You can get a sense of the book from this media revolution - an old excerpt currently featured in Prospect Magazine. hack's thoughts Horrid doubt file: Reasons to think your New forum topics Desmond and Moore always wade very deep in the archives but also with an mind is real eye to what might attract today’s reader about their subject. Not surprisingly, Students! Make a vid Biological Machines then, this is a book that documents the link between Darwin’s more general and win Ben Stein's money Has anyone thoght doctrine of common descent and his belief that all humans descend from a about this? - Natural common ancestor and hence are members of the same species. A lot of stress Mark Steyn on the late Law Michael Crichton is placed on Darwin’s revulsion at the brutality of slavery that he saw while aliens lifes blue print voyaging on the Beagle, and the fact that it was common among the natural Alfred Russel Wallace on Richard Lenski's historians of his day to believe in several species of ‘man’. The reader can why Mars is not habitable evolution research easily get the impression that this was some kind of triumph of evidence over The Ideological prejudice. However, this impression would be very misleading. Arch-atheist Dawkins now thinks serious case Prejudice of Scientific Materialism can be made for a sort- of God? more One reason abolitionism did not immediately meet with widespread approval Method used determines was that it was seen, from a naturalistic standpoint, as based on a sentimental which evolution story is Recent comments attachment to Christian notions of the ‘brotherhood of man’, despite the told evidence that was accumulating for the vastly different lives and dispositions How did the term "social If "the designer" was of the races. Darwin was immune to such knee-jerk naturalism because his Darwinism" get started? just 3 weeks 2 days ago mind was ‘prejudiced’ by a very healthy dose of Unitarianism and non- Not in any way you might think ... conformist Christianity on both sides of his family. Desmond and Moore talk Frank L. Cocozzelli's 4 weeks 2 days ago about this too but I guess the book wouldn’t appear so sexy if the headline Michael Reiss, you sinned against the wrong read: “Darwin Saved from Racism by Christian Upbringing”. The discussion on OE is god 4 weeks 6 days ago Theistic evolution: Straw The materialist men forked? Arguments 9 weeks 4 days ago To make their case, Desmond and Moore are smart to confine their argument for intelligent design largely to Darwin’s early years, since as he grew older he tended to stress the addressed? Pigs fly? Clarification 11 weeks 4 days ago hierarchy of the races and downplay the distinctiveness of the human more condition in natural history. In other words, as Darwin’s lost touch with his Fox called John an eccentric Christian roots, Darwin’s science lost touch with humanity. He began close to User login 11 weeks 4 days ago believing in the natural equality of all humans and ended close to believing in the natural equality of all species. Instead of reassuring us of the former Behaviour and moderation vision, future Darwin historians should critically explore the emergence of the Username: * 11 weeks 4 days ago latter vision, a legacy of Darwin that will increasingly concern us in the 21st It was "Alan Fox's" post century. 11 weeks 4 days ago Password: * Latest & Greatest 11 weeks 4 days ago Copyright © 2009 Uncommon Descent. This Feed is for personal non- Nasty remarks commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news Log in 11 weeks 4 days ago aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Create new account Please contact [email protected] so we can take legal action Request new password Syndicate immediately. Plugin by Taragana Categories: Intelligent Design News Who's new Well-Informed: Dr. Robert Marks and the Evolutionary jones9985 Informatics Lab tolland ID The Future - Sat, 2009-01-31 01:30 mariajones http://www.overwhelmingevidence.com/oe/news 1/31/2009 Intelligent Design | Overwhelming Evidence Page 2 of 14 brook Click here to listen. Editor's Note: After this podcast first aired, Dr. Marks' tgpeeler website, originally hosted by Baylor University, was taken down in an act of censorship. You can read the story here and watch part of it in... Categories: Intelligent Design News Who's online There are currently 0 users Human DNA repair process video - by chance? and 1 guest online. Uncommon Descent - Sat, 2009-01-31 00:42 Navigation More details of DNA repair have been revealed. See: Human DNA repair process recorded in action (Video) users by points (PhysOrg.com) — A key phase in the repair process of damaged human DNA has been observed and visually recorded by a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis. The recordings provide new information about the role played by a protein known as Rad51, which is linked to breast cancer, in this complex and critical process. In 2006, the researchers recorded a portion of the bacterial DNA repair process, a system considerably less complex than its human counterpart.. This filament composed of a fluorescently-labeled DNA molecule and the repair protein Rad51 grows progressively brighter and longer as more and more Rad51 molecules assemble onto the DNA. Human DNA is under constant assault from harmful agents such as ultraviolet sunlight, tobacco smoke and a myriad of chemicals, both natural and man- made. Because damage can lead to cancer, cell death and mutations, an army of proteins and enzymes are mobilized into action whenever it occurs. Rad51 takes a leading role in the action. Always on call in the cell, molecules of the protein assemble into a long filament along a damaged or broken segment of DNA, where they help stretch out the coiled strands and align them with corresponding segments on the cell’s second copy of the chromosome, which serves as a template for reconstruction. Because this protein is regulated by a gene linked to increased risk of breast cancer, BRCA2, it is also thought to play a role in suppression of that disease. With the ability to watch the assembly of individual filaments of Rad51 in real time, Kowalczykowski’s team made a number of discoveries. Among those are that, in contrast to their bacterial counterparts, Rad51 filaments don’t grow indefinitely. This indicates that there is an as-yet undiscovered mechanism that regulates the protein’s growth, Kowalczykowski said. Another surprising difference between the human and bacterial processes, Kowalczykowski said, is that Rad51 doesn’t fall away from the DNA when repair is complete. Instead, proteins that motor along DNA are required to dislodge it. See full news item: Article: Jovencio Hilario, Ichiro Amitani, Ronald J. Baskin, and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski, Direct imaging of human Rad51 nucleoprotein dynamics on individual DNA molecules, PNAS 2009 106:361-368; doi:10.1073/pnaires.0811965106 In review, the steps identified here: 1) Detect DNA damage 2) Call repair mechanism 3) Assemble protein into a long filament 4) Locate it along the damaged/broken segment of DNA 5) Stretch out the coiled strands 6) Align corresponding strands with cell’s second copy of the chromosome 7) Reconstruct using the second chromosome as a template Protein regulated by a gene 9) Undiscovered mechanism that regulates the protein’s growth 10) Motor proteins required to dislodge Rad51 from DNA. Each of these steps requires highly selective matching configurations. There are probably more steps and regulation involved. This long series of steps suggests an irreducibly complex system.And we are expected to accept that all this occurred by non-directed random mutations and selection? How does the organism survive while randomly creating this mechanism? Not having any repair mechanism would probably rapidly lead to death. See Sanford, J. C. 2006. Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome. Elim Publications. Elim, NY.208 pages. This evidence looks to me like evidence for blind belief in neoDarwinism! Copyright © 2009 Uncommon Descent. This Feed is for personal non- http://www.overwhelmingevidence.com/oe/news 1/31/2009 Intelligent Design | Overwhelming Evidence Page 3 of 14 commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news Developed in coordination with: [qpqp] and driftlab aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact [email protected] so we can take legal action immediately. Plugin by Taragana Categories: Intelligent Design News Human DNA repair process video - by chance? Uncommon Descent - Sat, 2009-01-31 00:42 More details of DNA repair have been revealed. See: Human DNA repair process recorded in action (Video) (PhysOrg.com) — A key phase in the repair process of damaged human DNA has been observed and visually recorded by a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis.
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