Wednesday, December 16, 2009

To The Extent Science Can Prove Anything, Information Technology PROVES DNA is Designed.

“To The Extent Science Can Prove Anything, Information Technology PROVES DNA is Designed.”

Yes, I know that’s a bold statement.

But I’m prepared to back it up.

perry-mainHi, my name is Perry Marshall, I’m author of an Ethernet book and dozens of white papers and articles about digital communication.

In June 2005 I gave a lecture called “If you can read this, I can prove God exists.” It applies information technology to some of the murkiest questions in biology, producing a radical new theory of evolution and demolishing the materialistic bias of atheism.

Today, this talk is one of the most hotly debated science presentations on the entire Internet.

Now you can eavesdrop on the intense discussions, and discover a new approach to the two most fundamental questions in science: Where did the information in DNA come from? And if evolution happens, how does it happen?

In this email series you’ll discover:

  • The Atheist’s Riddle: So simple, any child can understand; so complex, no atheist can solve
  • The most famous, passionately argued, longest-running debate on the largest atheist discussion forum in the world (you’ll see for yourself… those guys are mad)
  • Irrefutable evidence for design and the strongest evidence yet against belief in “materialism.” After you watch this, you’ll see that we are literally immersed in design, 24/7/365.
  • The surprising reaction I got when I presented this new theory to 120 communications engineers at Bell Labs
  • A testable hypothesis for Intelligent Design - yes, one that makes lab-testable, verifiable predictions about what biology will discover next
  • A candid discussion about the limits of what science can actually prove (Hint: Science cannot prove, it can only infer. Have I PROVEN that God exists? No… I have only demonstrated that inference to Design is just as certain as the laws of gravity, entropy and thermodynamics.)
  • A completely NEW framework for understanding the evolution question - and some very surprising information. You’ll ask: “How come they never told me about this in biology class???”
  • Why Evolution vs. Intelligent Design is not an either/or proposition - and why the debate in the mainstream media is not only useless, it has deliberately diverted attention away from the greatest discoveries of science
  • A place to discuss and post your own questions

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“I have just watched 61 minutes worth of your Evolution presentation and it is the clearest, most convincing demonstration of intelligent design there is going (and believe me, I’ve done some searching).

It also shredded my long-held preconceptions that most Americans blindly hold to either Evolution or Creationism, and thus are bigoted, dogmatic and indoctrinated at an early age. Your approach would be pretty much revolutionary in the UK.

Please write a book and get it distributed within the UK. There is a market for people longingly searching for credible answers to the meaning of their existence, and the origin of life in general, and you have hit upon an inspiring, insightful way of answering some of mankind’s deepest existential questions.”

-Rob Powys-Smith

Christian-Research.org

Westlea, Swindon, UK

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All Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Collage: Henry Taube, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and Otto Wallach
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 101 times to 157 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2009. Frederick Sanger is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980. This means that a total of 156 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Click on each name to see the Nobel Laureate's page.
Jump down to: | 1980 | 1960 | 1940 | 1920 | 1901 |

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Monday, November 2, 2009

A New Wrinkle in Ancient Ocean Chemistry

A New Wrinkle in Ancient Ocean Chemistry

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Posted: 11/01/09
Summary: Scientists widely accept that the Earth's atmosphere underwent a dramatic rise in oxygen 2.4 billion years ago, which ultimately paved the way for complex life on our planet. New research has helped solve some important questions surrounding this 'Great Oxidation Event'.


Scientists widely accept that around 2.4 billion years ago, the Earth's atmosphere underwent a dramatic change when oxygen levels rose sharply. Called the "Great Oxidation Event" (GOE), the oxygen spike marks an important milestone in Earth's history, the transformation from an oxygen-poor atmosphere to an oxygen-rich one paving the way for complex life to develop on the planet.

Two questions that remain unresolved in studies of the early Earth are when oxygen production via photosynthesis got started and when it began to alter the chemistry of Earth's ocean and atmosphere.

Now a research team led by geoscientists at the University of California, Riverside corroborates recent evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the GOE, and goes a step further in demonstrating that even very low concentrations of oxygen can have profound effects on ocean chemistry.

To arrive at their results, the researchers analyzed 2.5 billion-year-old black shales from Western Australia. Essentially representing fossilized pieces of the ancient seafloor, the fine layers within the rocks allowed the researchers to page through ocean chemistry's evolving history.

Specifically, the shales revealed that episodes of hydrogen sulfide accumulation in the oxygen-free deep ocean occurred nearly 100 million years before the GOE and up to 700 millaion years earlier than such conditions were predicted by past models for the early ocean. Scientists have long believed that the early ocean, for more than half of Earth's 4.6 billion-year history, was characterized instead by high amounts of dissolved iron under conditions of essentially no oxygen.

UC Riverside's Chris Reinhard studies a sample of pulverized black shale in solution.
Photo credit: UCR Strategic Communications
"The conventional wisdom has been that appreciable atmospheric oxygen is needed for sulfidic conditions to develop in the ocean," said Chris Reinhard, a Ph.D. graduate student in the Department of Earth Sciences and one of the research team members. "We found, however, that sulfidic conditions in the ocean are possible even when there is very little oxygen around, below about 1/100,000th of the oxygen in the modern atmosphere."
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Reinhard explained that at even very low oxygen levels in the atmosphere, the mineral pyrite can weather on the continents, resulting in the delivery of sulfate to the ocean by rivers. Sulfate is the key ingredient in hydrogen sulfide formation in the ocean.

Timothy Lyons, a professor of biogeochemistry, whose laboratory led the research, explained that the hydrogen sulfide in the ocean is a fingerprint of photosynthetic production of oxygen 2.5 billion years ago.

"A pre-GOE emergence for oxygenic photosynthesis is a matter of intense debate, and its resolution lies at the heart of understanding the evolution of diverse forms of life," he said. "We have found an important piece of that puzzle."

Study results appear in the Oct. 30 issue of Science.

"Our data point to oxygen-producing photosynthesis long before concentrations of oxygen in the atmosphere were even a tiny fraction of what they are today, suggesting that oxygen-consuming chemical reactions were offsetting much of the production," said Reinhard, the lead author of the research paper.

The researchers argue that the presence of small amounts of oxygen may have stimulated the early evolution of eukaryotes – organisms whose cells bear nuclei – millions of years prior to the GOE.

Beneath the red-weathered and spinifex covered hills of Western Australia, drill core collected 2.5 billion-year-old shales revealed evidence for early sulfidic conditions in the ocean and photosynthetic oxygen in the atmosphere.
Photo credit: Ariel Anbar, Arizona State University
"This initial oxygen production set the stage for the development of animals almost two billion years later," Lyons said. "The evolution of eukaryotes had to take place first."

The findings also have implications for the search for life on extrasolar planets.

"Our findings add to growing evidence suggesting that biological production of oxygen is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the evolution of complex life," Reinhard said. "A planetary atmosphere with abundant oxygen would provide a very promising biosignature. But one of the lessons here is that just because spectroscopic measurements don't detect oxygen in the atmosphere of another planet doesn't necessarily mean that no biological oxygen production is taking place."

To analyze the shales, Reinhard first pulverized them into a fine powder in Lyons's laboratory. Next, the powder was treated with a series of chemicals to extract different minerals. The extracts were then run on a mass-spectrometer at UC Riverside.

"One exciting thing about our discovery of sulfidic conditions occurring before the GOE is that it might shed light on ocean chemistry during other periods in the geologic record, such as a poorly understood 400 million-year interval between the GOE and around 1.8 billion years ago, a point in time when the deep oceans stopped showing signs of high iron concentrations," Reinhard said. "Now perhaps we have an explanation. If sulfidic conditions could occur with very small amounts of oxygen around, then they might have been even more common and widespread after the GOE."

Said Lyons, "This is important because oxygen-poor and sulfidic conditions almost certainly impacted the availability of nutrients essential to life, such as nitrogen and trace metals. The evolution of the ocean and atmosphere were in a cause-and-effect balance with the evolution of life."

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Photosynthesis Video

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Web Site With Free Pathways for the Biology and Chemistry Community 

GeneGo Launches New Web Site With Free Pathways for the Biology and Chemistry
Community



ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems
biology tools company, announced today that they will be launching a new web
site with FREE high quality pathway content.  On www.genego.com, anyone can
now search for genes, proteins, compounds, processes and diseases and access
high quality manually curated pathway maps for human, mouse and rat signaling
and metabolism. Every step on the pathways is supported by high quality "small
experiment" evidence.  The web site includes 37 Cystic Fibrosis specific
disease maps, the result of a collaborative development project with Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation (CFF).

GeneGo's new web site also features a new community career section
http://www.genego.com/careers.php that anyone can advertise open positions at
their companies or institutions. Furthermore, the web site also includes
sections with the latest publications using GeneGo technology; it can be
searched and there is also product information, events and training sessions
on line and at many locations throughout the world.

"With the number of our academic users growing rapidly and GeneGo working with
companies to set industry standards, we wanted to 'give back' to the life
science community that has been loyal to GeneGo for years," said Julie Bryant,
GeneGo's VP of Business development. "For the first time, we are now providing
free pathway maps that have been expensive to build and a section to help
people find jobs in these tough times.  We plan to add more 'community
services' in the next 12 months."

About GeneGo, Inc.
GeneGo, Inc. develops systems biology technology such as compound based
pathway analysis, cheminformatics & bioinformatics software for life science
research. The original computational MetaDiscovery(TM) platform allows an
integration and expert analysis of different kinds of experimental data (mRNA
expression, proteomics, metabolomics, microRNA assays and other phenotypic
data) and relevant bioactive chemistry (metabolites, drugs, other xenobiotics)
within the framework of curated biological pathways and networks. GeneGo's
flagship product, MetaCore 6.0(TM), assists pharmaceutical scientists in the
areas of target selection and validation, data mining in biology,
identification of biomarkers for disease states and toxicology. The second
product, MetaDrug 6.0(TM) is designed for prediction of human metabolism,
toxicity and biological effects for novel small molecules compounds.
MetaBase(TM) represents the knowledge base for MetaCore.

For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.genego.com.

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New Wrinkle In Ancient Ocean Chemistry

New Wrinkle In Ancient Ocean Chemistry

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2009) — Scientists widely accept that around 2.4 billion years ago, the Earth's atmosphere underwent a dramatic change when oxygen levels rose sharply. Called the "Great Oxidation Event" (GOE), the oxygen spike marks an important milestone in Earth's history, the transformation from an oxygen-poor atmosphere to an oxygen-rich one paving the way for complex life to develop on the planet.

Two questions that remain unresolved in studies of the early Earth are when oxygen production via photosynthesis got started and when it began to alter the chemistry of Earth's ocean and atmosphere.

Now a research team led by geoscientists at the University of California, Riverside corroborates recent evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the GOE, and goes a step further in demonstrating that even very low concentrations of oxygen can have profound effects on ocean chemistry.

To arrive at their results, the researchers analyzed 2.5 billion-year-old black shales from Western Australia. Essentially representing fossilized pieces of the ancient seafloor, the fine layers within the rocks allowed the researchers to page through ocean chemistry's evolving history.

Specifically, the shales revealed that episodes of hydrogen sulfide accumulation in the oxygen-free deep ocean occurred nearly 100 million years before the GOE and up to 700 million years earlier than such conditions were predicted by past models for the early ocean. Scientists have long believed that the early ocean, for more than half of Earth's 4.6 billion-year history, was characterized instead by high amounts of dissolved iron under conditions of essentially no oxygen.

"The conventional wisdom has been that appreciable atmospheric oxygen is needed for sulfidic conditions to develop in the ocean," said Chris Reinhard, a Ph.D. graduate student in the Department of Earth Sciences and one of the research team members. "We found, however, that sulfidic conditions in the ocean are possible even when there is very little oxygen around, below about 1/100,000th of the oxygen in the modern atmosphere."

Reinhard explained that at even very low oxygen levels in the atmosphere, the mineral pyrite can weather on the continents, resulting in the delivery of sulfate to the ocean by rivers. Sulfate is the key ingredient in hydrogen sulfide formation in the ocean.

Timothy Lyons, a professor of biogeochemistry, whose laboratory led the research, explained that the hydrogen sulfide in the ocean is a fingerprint of photosynthetic production of oxygen 2.5 billion years ago.

"A pre-GOE emergence for oxygenic photosynthesis is a matter of intense debate, and its resolution lies at the heart of understanding the evolution of diverse forms of life," he said. "We have found an important piece of that puzzle."

Study results appear in the Oct. 30 issue of Science.

"Our data point to oxygen-producing photosynthesis long before concentrations of oxygen in the atmosphere were even a tiny fraction of what they are today, suggesting that oxygen-consuming chemical reactions were offsetting much of the production," said Reinhard, the lead author of the research paper.

The researchers argue that the presence of small amounts of oxygen may have stimulated the early evolution of eukaryotes -- organisms whose cells bear nuclei -- millions of years prior to the GOE.

"This initial oxygen production set the stage for the development of animals almost two billion years later," Lyons said. "The evolution of eukaryotes had to take place first."

The findings also have implications for the search for life on extrasolar planets.

"Our findings add to growing evidence suggesting that biological production of oxygen is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the evolution of complex life," Reinhard said. "A planetary atmosphere with abundant oxygen would provide a very promising biosignature. But one of the lessons here is that just because spectroscopic measurements don't detect oxygen in the atmosphere of another planet doesn't necessarily mean that no biological oxygen production is taking place."

To analyze the shales, Reinhard first pulverized them into a fine powder in Lyons's laboratory. Next, the powder was treated with a series of chemicals to extract different minerals. The extracts were then run on a mass-spectrometer at UC Riverside.

"One exciting thing about our discovery of sulfidic conditions occurring before the GOE is that it might shed light on ocean chemistry during other periods in the geologic record, such as a poorly understood 400 million-year interval between the GOE and around 1.8 billion years ago, a point in time when the deep oceans stopped showing signs of high iron concentrations," Reinhard said. "Now perhaps we have an explanation. If sulfidic conditions could occur with very small amounts of oxygen around, then they might have been even more common and widespread after the GOE."

Said Lyons, "This is important because oxygen-poor and sulfidic conditions almost certainly impacted the availability of nutrients essential to life, such as nitrogen and trace metals. The evolution of the ocean and atmosphere were in a cause-and-effect balance with the evolution of life."

Reinhard and Lyons were joined in the research by Clint Scott of UCR; Ariel Anbar of the Arizona State University, Tempe; and Rob Raiswell of the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

The two-year study was supported by the National Science Foundation and NASA.

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Friday, October 23, 2009

'Green chemistry' a breath of fresh air, really

My View: 'Green chemistry' a breath of fresh air, really

My View
Irv Levy and Dwight Tshudy

This week (Oct. 19-23), chemists around the nation are in merriment mode, marking October as arguably the most chemical time of the year. It is, after all, the month during which National Chemistry Week is celebrated.

Celebrate chemistry? Don't chemicals cause problems? Isn't chemistry only mentioned in the media when it's linked to derailed trains, flaming warehouses or protests on Capitol Hill? Hardly the stuff of celebration.

But increasing numbers of chemists are working to change that image for the future. In fact, green chemistry — the practice of chemistry designed to be inherently safer for human health and the environment — has been a serious research field since the 1990s. Spearheaded by the EPA and programs such as the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards presented annually in Washington, D.C., a Nobel Prize was even awarded for a green chemistry project a few years ago.

So what does it mean to be green in chemistry? And why does it matter?

Many claim the adjective these days, from pizza parlors to local grocery stores. But green chemists are guided by a specific set of principles — 12 to be exact — that direct our work in the laboratories and, consequently, affect our lives every day.

One of the key elements of greening the chemical enterprise is the recognition that green is not a destination for our science; instead, it is a path. The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry, then, constantly provoke us to review the methods and materials we use, looking for ways to glean the benefits of modern chemistry without the accidents and unintended consequences that have occurred in the past. It's a path from one shade of green to the next.

Some of us in the green chemistry movement believe there is also a biblical mandate to practice wise stewardship of the physical world, to promote chemistry that is by design environmentally benign. We see this green chemistry imperative as completely concordant with our Christian calling to care for the environment as God's good stewards. For us that means that many shades of green permeate our particular college department — from our classrooms and our labs to our student research projects and lectures we host or present, we're always thinking green.

We have to be honest though: Green chemistry at Gordon College wasn't the bright idea of a couple of professors. College students — who are often the catalytic force for world-changing movements — are largely behind the green chemistry movement. Many of today's students not only want to learn about green chemistry, they want to teach others.

In our particular program, it was the persistence of a young biology student named Laura (Hamel) Ouillette who taught us and challenged us to take our work further, to become strong proponents and founding leaders in the national Green Chemistry Education Network.

But back to celebrating chemistry. Regardless of who we are — whether students, professors or any type of citizen — we can inspire others beyond our campuses or communities to look for a greener way to live. Whether traveling to national conferences to challenge others, returning to former high schools or partnering with organizations like the Beyond Benign Foundation to work around our region, there are hundreds of combinations that can remind Earth dwellers to renew rather than deplete.

It's easier than some might think to find new ways to prevent waste, for instance, rather than treat or clean up waste. We could design less hazardous chemical synthetics with little or no toxicity. And we can all support practical ways to conserve energy, use renewable materials and encourage innovative chemical technologies.

We want to take the celebration to the streets, to the museums, to after-school fun science programs or community groups, and introduce thousands of folks to the reality that science does in fact have the potential to solve a lot of the world's serious problems. But it is the one simple moment, that light bulb if you will, when someone gets a glimpse of the transforming power of green chemistry that can inspire all of us — young and old alike — to make a significant contribution to a greener world, regardless of the shade. That's when the path gets greener still.

So in an era where science news mostly deals with projects that are too costly, accidents that have caused harm, or global concerns that are so large they become political hot potatoes, green chemistry is a breath of fresh air. Literally. And that's as good a reason as any to celebrate.

Happy National Chemistry Week!

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