"12 recent discoveries that have changed the debate about design in the universe....
The 12 discoveries are:
1. The universe (space-time, matter, energy) had a beginning..jpg)
2. The laws of physics, the fundamental constants, and the initial conditions of the universe are fine-tuned to allow for the possibility of life.
3. Protein sequence space is far too large to be searched and highly functional sequences (i.e., enzymes) are incredibly rare (~ 1 in 1077).
4. The number of genes in the simplest free-living organism is about 450.
5. Life is based on a digital information processing system.
6. Molecular machines and sophisticated software algorithms are essential to all life-forms.
7. Random mutation + natural selection has severe limitations as a creative mechanism that are now well understood.
8. So many highly improbable factors make Earth habitable that it is VERY unlikely that another truly “Earth-like” planet exists in our galaxy.
9. The “junk DNA” paradigm has been shown to be false. Most, if not all, non-coding DNA has function.
10. The Cambrian (and other) explosions in the fossil record are not consistent with the Darwinian model of gradual evolution.
11. Extensive post-translational processing (editing) of genes occurs in eukaryotes: the spliceosome and the splicing code.
12. Genes extensively overlap in the same or opposite directions within a stretch of DNA (overlapping codes)."
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3. Protein sequence space is far too large to be searched and highly functional sequences (i.e., enzymes) are incredibly rare (~ 1 in 1077).
4. The number of genes in the simplest free-living organism is about 450.
5. Life is based on a digital information processing system.
6. Molecular machines and sophisticated software algorithms are essential to all life-forms.
7. Random mutation + natural selection has severe limitations as a creative mechanism that are now well understood.
8. So many highly improbable factors make Earth habitable that it is VERY unlikely that another truly “Earth-like” planet exists in our galaxy.
10. The Cambrian (and other) explosions in the fossil record are not consistent with the Darwinian model of gradual evolution.
11. Extensive post-translational processing (editing) of genes occurs in eukaryotes: the spliceosome and the splicing code.
12. Genes extensively overlap in the same or opposite directions within a stretch of DNA (overlapping codes)."
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