• In his new book, Dr. Stephen Meyer explains why the alien design hypothesis fails, and why instead it makes more sense to posit the existence of a personal God for the origin of life as well as the origin of the universe. (discovery.org)
  • The design hypothesis is not currently the consensus. (evolutionnews.org)
  • He notes that while logically unbeatable versions of the design hypothesis have been formulated (involving, for example, a "trickster God" who creates a world that appears undesigned), design hypotheses in general need not assume an untestable character. (discovery.org)
  • A design hypothesis could, he argues, be formulated as a fully scientific "inference to the best explanation. (discovery.org)
  • 1 On these grounds, he notes that William Paley's version of the design hypothesis was manifestly testable, but was rejected precisely because it could not explain the relevant evidence of then con- temporary biology as well as the fully naturalistic theory of Charles Darwin. (discovery.org)
  • that there is some other version of the design hypothesis that both disagrees with the hypothesis of evolution and also is a more likely explanation of what we observe. (discovery.org)
  • No one, to my knowledge, has developed such a version of the design hypothesis. (discovery.org)
  • This paper will develop a design hypothesis, not as an explanation for the origin of species, but as an explanation for the origin of the information required to make a living system in the first place. (discovery.org)
  • To paraphrase Sober, this paper will present a version of the design hypothesis that disagrees with strictly materialistic theories of chemical evolution and provides a better explanation for the observed complexity of the simplest living organisms. (discovery.org)
  • An alternative hypothesis that is consistent with a young age of cichlids is the "Independent colonization" scenario, according to which cichlids on all four landmasses independently evolved from a common marine ancestor that has since either gone extinct or remained undiscovered. (nature.com)
  • In his book Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe , University of Cambridge-trained philosopher of science and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Stephen C. Meyer casts profound doubt on this explanation. (discovery.org)
  • He is author of the New York Times -bestseller Darwin's Doubt (2013) as well as the book Signature in the Cell (2009) and Return of the God Hypothesis (2021). (discovery.org)
  • The third (posterior baleen hypothesis) suggests that functional baleen evolved posterior to vestigial adult teeth retained at the distal tip of the rostrum and dentaries, with the dentition and baleen aligned in the rostrum ( Boessenecker and Fordyce, 2015a , b ). (frontiersin.org)
  • This suggests that the form of visuomotor learning taking place in the present task was not sensitive to neurostimulation. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • As the name suggests, this is exactly the opposite of the hypothesis we just discussed. (vedantu.com)
  • One possible explanation is given by the Vester- Ulbricht hypothesis [1], which suggests that left-handed electrons present in beta-radiation, produced by parity-violating weak decays, interacted with biological precursors and preferentially destroyed one of the two enantiomers. (aps.org)
  • The Oparin-Haldane hypothesis suggests that life arose gradually from inorganic molecules, with "building blocks" like amino acids forming first and then combining to make complex polymers. (khanacademy.org)
  • Some scientists support the RNA world hypothesis , which suggests that the first life was self-replicating RNA. (khanacademy.org)
  • The calcium assimilation hypothesis suggests that carriers of the lactase persistence allele(s) (LCT*P) are favoured in high-latitude regions, where sunshine is insufficient to allow accurate vitamin-D synthesis. (blogspot.com)
  • These new data allow revised, testable hypotheses about our earliest ancestors. (washington.edu)
  • A meta-analysis of the results using Bayes factors revealed considerable cumulative evidence in favor of the hypothesis that images of baby animals temporarily reduce women's appetite for meat. (researchgate.net)
  • Others favor the metabolism-first hypothesis , placing metabolic networks before DNA or RNA. (khanacademy.org)
  • These mixed emotions are clearly evident in the life scientists who strive to understand the evolutionary origin of complex, eukaryotic cells. (reasons.org)
  • Another thought of this hypothesis is that scientists think that viruses may have been generated from our genetic materials. (vedantu.com)
  • Consequently, some scientists have proposed an alien intelligence as a way to explain the intricate molecular machinery and information processing systems present in cells. (discovery.org)
  • He notes that scientists often evaluate the explanatory power of a "hypothesis by test- ing it against one or more competing hypotheses. (discovery.org)
  • Intense public interest in scientific claims about COVID-19, concerning its origins, modes of spread, evolution, and preventive and therapeutic strategies, has focused attention on the values to which scientists are assumed to be committed and the relationship between science and other public discourses. (bvsalud.org)
  • Another Disappointment for the Evolutionary Model for the Origin of Eukaryotic Cells? (reasons.org)
  • 1 And while researchers continue to accumulate clues about the origin of eukaryotic cells, they remain stymied when it comes to offering a robust, reliable evolutionary account of one of life's key transitions. (reasons.org)
  • The leading explanation for the evolutionary origin of eukaryotic cells is the endosymbiont hypothesis. (reasons.org)
  • Abstract - A careful reading of the account of Jeremiah's vocation raises questions about the impact that his priestly origins might have had on his life as a spokesman (prophet) of YHWH. (unigre.it)
  • Abstract - This essay intends to reflect on the "hypothetical" character of the theology of origins, starting from the analysis of some passages from Aquinas's Summa Theologiae . (unigre.it)
  • While the earliest mysticetes retained the adult, mineralized teeth present in ancestral whales, all species of living baleen whales lack teeth and instead possess baleen. (frontiersin.org)
  • The authors present a rare case of osteoma cutis miliaris and briefly update the current knowledge about its clinic, pathogenesis, and therapeutic options. (hindawi.com)
  • Its pathogenesis is a very investigated, despite presenting indeterminate, being restricted to the realm of hypotheses, ranging from local infections and trauma to genetic factors. (bvsalud.org)
  • The tempting hypothesis that female sex hormones play a role in pathogenesis remains unproved. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Finally, I propose a new hypothesis for the evolutionary function and origin of music. (researchgate.net)
  • And each time researchers present new understanding about this presumed evolutionary transition, it exposes even more flaws with the model, turning the joy of discovery into frustration, as the latest work by a team of Japanese microbiologists attests. (reasons.org)
  • Before we unpack the work by the Japanese investigators and its implications for the endosymbiont hypothesis, a quick review of this cornerstone idea in evolutionary theory is in order. (reasons.org)
  • They see the biochemical similarities between mitochondrial and bacterial genomes as further evidence for the evolutionary origin of these organelles. (reasons.org)
  • Therefore, our results suggested that the origin of the Cham was likely a process of assimilation of massive local Mon-Khmer populations accompanied with language shift, thus indicating that the Austronesian diffusion in MSEA was mainly mediated by cultural diffusion, at least from the matrilineal genetic perspective, an observation in agreement with the hypothesis of the Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Networks. (nih.gov)
  • This is more compatible with the calcium assimilation hypothesis, since lactase persistence is beneficial in low sunshine (high latitude) regions than with the gene-cultural co-evolution hypothesis, according to which pastoralists become LP because of their need to rely on animal milk. (blogspot.com)
  • This selection pressure increasing with latitude is highly compatible with the calcium assimilation hypothesis while the gene-culture coevolution hypothesis cannot be ruled out if a positively selected lactase gene was carried at the front of the expansion wave during the Neolithic transition in Europe. (blogspot.com)
  • 2) The cal (calcium assimilation) hypothesis is better than the gcc (gene-culture coevolution). (blogspot.com)
  • According to the "Gondwanan vicariance" hypothesis, cichlids lived on the Gondwanan landmasses South America, Africa, Madagascar, and India before the separation of these landmasses and diverged as a result of this separation. (nature.com)
  • However, they do suggest that the hypothesis of LP spreading during the Neolithic, and being selected at higher latitudes (south-to-north) is more attractive than its spread by pastoralists who were genetically adapted to consume milk in adulthood, as is the case in Africa. (blogspot.com)
  • Our results show that gene-culture coevolution is a likely hypothesis in Africa as high LCT*P frequencies are preferentially found in pastoral populations. (blogspot.com)
  • At present the symbiotic hypothesis for the origin of cilia seems to be basically a pet idea of Margulis and a few of her associates. (fact-index.com)
  • Margulis is, though, still strongly promoting and publishing a revised version of her hypothesis (Margulis' 1998 book Symbiotic planet: a new look at evolution has some frank autobiographical comments about her stubborn support of the symbiotic hypothesis for the origin of the cilium). (fact-index.com)
  • This can be a believable explanation of the origin of viruses. (vedantu.com)
  • I believe it shows that the best explanation for the origin of "the most sophisticated machines we know of" is in fact intelligent design. (evolutionnews.org)
  • This paper will argue that a third type of explanation - intelligent design - provides a better explanation for the origin of the information present in large biomacromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins. (discovery.org)
  • Meyer shows, instead, that recent discoveries about the origin of life and the universe are better explained by "the God hypothesis. (discovery.org)
  • After repeatedly doubting the validity of this hypothesis, as presented in Black English , Spears manages to give his readers the impression that these doubts amount to devastating counterargument by cautioning tolerantly that they "should not be allowed to obscure the book's positive accomplishments. (nybooks.com)
  • In this work, we test the validity of these two hypotheses on a large worldwide dataset of lactase persistence frequencies by using several complementary approaches. (blogspot.com)
  • Here, we generate draft genome assemblies of 14 species representing the global cichlid diversity and integrate these into a new phylogenomic hypothesis of cichlid and teleost evolution that we time-calibrate with 58 re-evaluated fossil constraints and a new Bayesian model accounting for fossil-assignment uncertainty. (nature.com)
  • In this work we developed 384 molecular markers for P. sapota that for the first time can differentiate the geographic origin of populations of this species. (usda.gov)
  • The Origin of Species is the magnum opus of natural scientist Charles Darwin. (bookshopsantacruz.com)
  • Because all described genotypes of the prnp gene confer susceptibility to sheep, a purely genetic origin is unlikely but a confounding effect could occur. (cdc.gov)
  • We suggest that the origin of baleen is decoupled from the loss of teeth, with a separate morphological and genetic basis. (frontiersin.org)
  • As per this hypothesis, viruses originated from simple genetic material. (vedantu.com)
  • Many of these markers are associated to biological functions, which will allow elaborating and testing hypotheses in relation of the biology of P. sapota. (usda.gov)
  • Despite little acknowledgement, the discipline of engineering (including the design of PRANCE ) depends on intelligent design and foresight for all novel large scale innovations, thus testifying that no sophisticated machines outside of biology have an origin aside from intelligent design. (evolutionnews.org)
  • The book goes on to present a body of evidence for the hypothesis that the diversity of life in this way arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. (bookshopsantacruz.com)
  • Moreover, we outline how new fossils and phylogenetic analyses may resolve current debates about morphological transformations in tooth loss and baleen origin across the phylogeny of stem and crown Mysticeti. (frontiersin.org)
  • 1) The exclusion of the Linear Band Keramic population for the peopling of Europe, not being this hypothesis that that explains the diffusion of the Lactase persistence in Western Europe. (blogspot.com)
  • The gene-culture coevolution hypothesis supposes a nutritional advantage of lactose digestion in pastoral populations. (blogspot.com)
  • Finally, we state the experimental hypotheses and report the results of the present study. (frontiersin.org)
  • B, 43 (17):175201, 2010} We also present simulations of the effects that multiple scattering might have on experimental measurements. (aps.org)
  • In this paper we present a theoretical and experimental investigation of the ionization of atoms though the interaction of light in the strong-field regime. (aps.org)
  • Origin of Z284 on Balkans might be of Viking descend, but beside Varangian guard I haven't found any sources on matter that Vikings had settled on Balkan peninsula. (eupedia.com)
  • As the relic of the ancient Champa Kingdom, the Cham people represent the major Austronesian speakers in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) and their origin is evidently associated with the Austronesian diffusion in MSEA. (nih.gov)
  • 10 refs By model considerations between spaces of dimensions differing by unity the author tries to demonstrate that the hypothesis of an actually existent fourth dimension of space-as formulated just a hundred years ago by the Ger- man astrophysicist Friedrich Zbllner-is able to bring most of the psychokinetic phenomena nearer to a physical un- derstanding than any other initial point. (cia.gov)
  • The variation in radiation emitting from the filaments is very different from that of the newly uncovered supernova remnant, suggesting that the phenomena have different origins. (scitechdaily.com)
  • As an example, the Friday freight assessment begins on Monday as HSCL researchers develop hypotheses based on the data from several proprietary channels, publicly available media, and primary interviews with practitioners from the field. (mit.edu)
  • The present study seeks to determine which communication modality is best suited to establishing a shared communication system from scratch when people are prohibited from using their common language. (frontiersin.org)
  • Freud establishes a relation of the origin myth with the constitution of the self. (bvsalud.org)
  • Yet, among Dillard's citations are two articles of my own ("Continuity and Change in American Negro Dialects" and "Historical and Structural Bases for the Recognition of Negro Dialect") in which I demonstrate that these present-day differences between Gullah and other forms of Black English must be of rather recent origin-a result of the relatively greater decreolization which the original plantation creole underwent outside Gullah territory. (nybooks.com)
  • The origins of "morphological novelties" remain unexplained except as a result of separately created starting points. (grisda.org)
  • Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) appear to be present only in trace quantities from deposition by solar wind . (wikipedia.org)
  • At present John is preparing linen samples to be tested for carbon monoxide contamination, which could be compared to the shroud to prove or disprove his hypothesis. (wdtprs.com)
  • Speaking to CNA in a Monday phone interview, John Jackson explained that the hypothesis of carbon monoxide contamination in the shroud has "serious potential" for upsetting the previous radiocarbon dating of the shroud, but first it must be determined if the hypothesis has scientific merit. (wdtprs.com)
  • The routes of infection have not yet been firmly established, and different routes of transmission have been suggested, although the most commonly accepted hypothesis is that infection takes place through the faecal-oral route and that contaminated water and foods might play an important role in transmission of the microorganism to humans. (wjgnet.com)
  • Undoubtedly, they are the most commonly tumors seen among those of odontogenic origin. (bvsalud.org)
  • We evaluate the support for these hypotheses based on separate lines of evidence, including paleontological, molecular, and ontogenetic data. (frontiersin.org)
  • First we review the different theories of the origin of language and evidence supporting each position. (frontiersin.org)
  • Most of the evidence for the endosymbiont hypothesis centers around the fact that m itochondria are about the same size and shape as a typical bacterium and have a double membrane structure like gram-negative cells. (reasons.org)
  • This provides unambiguous evidence for a well-defined, chirally-sensitive destructive molecular process and, as such, circumstantial evidence for the Vester-Ulbricht hypothesis. (aps.org)
  • However, the lack of earlier fossil evidence makes pinpointing the time of life's origin difficult (if not impossible). (khanacademy.org)
  • John and Rebecca Jackson say that some evidence, such as the characteristics of the cloth and the details of the image, suggest a much older origin of the shroud. (wdtprs.com)
  • Yet, in assuming or acting as if Dillard's only evidence for this creolist hypothesis concerning Gullah consists of what is furnished in the text of Black English , Spears is merely demonstrating that he did not follow up Dillard's references to the writings of other creolists with anything like the diligence with which he admittedly checked out Dillard's critical citations of dialect geographers. (nybooks.com)
  • Historical evidence points to a new hypothesis: that there was a "two-line struggle" between China's conservatives and reformers that spanned Hu Jintao's two terms and lasted into Xi's early years. (tnsr.org)
  • Through the use of two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy, we present unambiguous evidence that excitonic interaction shapes the split band. (lu.se)
  • This has been pursued despite a clear refutation, through comprehensive genomic analysis, of the hypothesis that the virus was deliberately engineered and the failure of detailed investigations to identify any evidence in support of a laboratory leak. (bvsalud.org)
  • We present a new hypothesis for the origin of the chordates whereby the expansion of BMP during dorsal-ventral patterning allowed the evolution of noneural ectoderm and pharyngeal gill slits on the ventral side. (washington.edu)
  • Is the origin of life different from evolution? (scienceblogs.com)
  • I heard it said recently that "Evolution" and "Origin of life" are two separate issues. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The study of the origin and evolution of meteoroid streams is a sub-problem of the main problem of meteor astronomy, namely, to determine the spatial distribution of the meteoroid matter in the Solar system. (inasan.ru)
  • Even so, this so-called "panspermia" hypothesis fails to explain where the information necessary to explain the origin of life - and the evolution of aliens - elsewhere in the cosmos would have come from. (discovery.org)
  • In comparison to the central dogma or the theory of evolution, hypotheses about life's origins are much more. (khanacademy.org)
  • Whereas Darwinism and neo-Darwinism address the former question, theories of chemical evolution have addressed the latter ques- tion of the ultimate origin of life. (discovery.org)
  • The NCHS multiple cause of death data tapes have thus provided a new way to evaluate the demographics of an occupational pulmonary disease, and help generate a hypothesis as to its occupational origin. (cdc.gov)
  • This paper reaffirms the Freudian hypothesis that there are strong indications of sexuality with the myths of the origin of each subject. (bvsalud.org)
  • These patients present with clinical symptoms in their late 40s or early 50s. (medscape.com)
  • Their approximate geographic origins are indicated. (nature.com)
  • For a long period of time, the fundamental question regarding the history of the Moon was of its origin . (wikipedia.org)
  • Solar System Ambassador John McLaren will present the work of Dr. Julien Salmon on the leading hypothesis regarding the origin of the Moon. (seattleastro.org)
  • Let us find out what these things are in detail and then proceed to find out the theories of their origin. (vedantu.com)
  • From the 1920s to the mid-1960s origin-of-life research relied on theories that emphasized the creative role of random events - "chance" - often in tandem with some form of prebiotic natural selection. (discovery.org)
  • Patients who used tetracycline or minocycline may present bluish lesions [ 4 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • breast cancer patients present in ad- mary lesions. (who.int)
  • Creationist theory offers an interesting hypothesis to explain the observed pattern of the discontinuity of life. (grisda.org)
  • Two hypotheses are usually proposed to explain the particular distribution of the lactase persistence phenotype. (blogspot.com)
  • TABLE OF CORRELATIONS: Variables by State Whole Milk Sold 0.53* Dairy Farm s 0.54* Farm s with Cows 0.54* Farm ers 0.35* Deaths 0.11* P farm ing than farm ing in general, supporting our hypothesis. (cdc.gov)
  • These professional volunteers, who are involved in food supply chains and freight movement, review and respond to the hypotheses. (mit.edu)
  • In that spirit (hoping Dr. DeBenedictis and others will follow), I will present an alternate perspective. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Today, the giant-impact hypothesis is widely accepted by the scientific community. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this article, we'll examine scientific ideas about the origin of life on Earth. (khanacademy.org)
  • If we get to the point where we believe we have a viable hypothesis that works in the lab, then we have scientific grounds to go to Turin and say, 'Here's what we think has happened to the shroud. (wdtprs.com)
  • We present a case of a 45 years old female patient with multiple cerebral aneurysms 2 years after a successful resection of cardiac myxoma , submitted to radiosurgery for 2 bigger aneurysms with good results. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here we examine the hypothesis that a portion of these benefits stem from changes in endocrine activity associated with affiliation and social bonding. (researchgate.net)
  • In the present study we examined whether tDCS over the contralateral motor cortex enhances learning of grip-force output in a visually guided feedback task in young and neurologically healthy volunteers. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • The present study experimentally tests this question by having pairs of participants communicate a range of pre-specified items (emotions, actions, objects) over a series of trials to a partner using either non-linguistic vocalization, gesture or a combination of the two. (frontiersin.org)
  • In the present study, we have analyzed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control-region and coding-region sequence variations in 168 Cham and 139 Kinh individuals from Vietnam. (nih.gov)
  • In the present study, we used chronometric TMS to probe the time-course of 3 brain regions during a picture naming task. (mpi.nl)
  • Many patients present with spontaneous pneumothorax. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Depending on the level of FVIII activity, patients with hemophilia may present with easy bruising, inadequate clotting of traumatic injury or-in the case of severe hemophilia-spontaneous hemorrhage. (medscape.com)
  • This hypothesis does not answer the question of the origin of the virus clearly though. (vedantu.com)
  • This is normal of every virus but at present we're helping it thrive if we don't reduce transmission and vaccinate equitably. (bvsalud.org)
  • The detection of high-oncogenic HPV genotypes in patients with breast cancer supports the hypothesis of an etiologic role for the virus in breast cancer development. (who.int)
  • Another hypothesis is that embryonic mesenchymal cells, erroneously migrated to the dermis, might differentiate into the osteogenic lineage [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The discovery of digital information technology inside living cells has created an impasse in origin of life studies. (discovery.org)
  • Dawkins wrote this tweet after watching an animation produced by an Australian medical group showing how cells store and copy the vast amounts digital information present in DNA. (discovery.org)
  • Early hypotheses included fission from Earth, capture , and co-accretion . (wikipedia.org)
  • In the process, it will trace developments in origin-of-life research from the 1920s to the present. (discovery.org)
  • Mutation (directed or random) can modify existing information when a strong "selective pressure" is present. (evolutionnews.org)
  • [3] A large proportion of Phyla and Classes are found in Cambrian sediments, or are inferred to have been present. (grisda.org)
  • Collections of Pouteria sapota plants, which bear large amounts of edible fruits, are present in banks of germplasm in the USA. (usda.gov)
  • The report of the Committee on Graduate and Professional Training ( 10 ), although more directly related to future activities of our Committee, in some respects also bears on the present report. (yorku.ca)
  • From the point of the origin of life, this information has flowed from ancestor to descendant. (grisda.org)
  • They do not have the capability of continuing the life processes on their own as they depend on the enzymes and other biochemical substances present in a host. (vedantu.com)
  • An honest man," he argued, "armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that … the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going. (discovery.org)
  • He shows that alien intelligence not only fails to account for the origin of life but also the origin of the universe and its exquisite "fine-tuning" for life. (discovery.org)
  • The origin of atypical scrapie is still unclear, and whether the disease has an infectious origin remains a major question. (cdc.gov)
  • This is a very interesting complex, the origin of which is still unclear and causes debate. (inasan.ru)
  • Divided into three parts, the article intends first of all to outline the concept of "hypothesis" in the theological field, with particular reference to the protological horizon. (unigre.it)
  • This article puts forward a new hypothesis to answer these questions, one that is based on the idea that there has been a "line struggle" (路线斗争) - a competition for supremacy between political actors who claim that they alone follow the correct party line - between China's "conservatives" and its "reformers. (tnsr.org)
  • The primordial origin of this enantiomeric excess is unknown. (aps.org)