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(AgapePress) - The father of a student who died in the tragic Columbine, Colorado, school shootings of April 20, 1999, is weighing in on the Texas debate over high school biology textbooks. He believes children who are taught that they are made in the image of God will have greater respect for life. ... The father of Rachel Scott feels there is a directly relationship between what children are taught and how they see the world and choose to live in it. "If children are taught that they came from slime, that they evolved from a lower form of life,...

  Nobel Prize Design in DNA IV Function, Specificity, and Complexity: The discovery of split genes brought Richard Robert and Phil Sharp the [1993]Prize. This came late in the examination of DNA because most early DNA research was done on bacteria which do not have split genes. In multi-cellular organisms though split genes are the rule rather than the exception. The whole area between the start and end of the gene is transcribed by the messenger RNA, after transcription an additional step cuts off the DNA which is not needed to make the protein. The mRNA is then spliced...

Nobel Prize Design in DNA III DNA and the Life Process: Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger won the [1980] Prize for their discoveries in DNA sequencing. Berg was the first to show that the 'one gene, one protein' hypothesis was false with his studies of the SV40 circular virus which amazingly was able to code for different proteins in its small genome by reusing DNA to make different proteins by starting transcription from different positions. This brought forth the question of how such genes with multiple starting points come to be expressed. They tried many things to...

Nobel Prize Design in DNA II Exploring DNA: In [1962] James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for their 1953 discovery of DNA structure. They showed that it is arranged in a stepwise chain of paired DNA bases. This chain is the template for all genetic information of an organism. From this template protein synthesis occurs by the copying of the DNA bases onto messenger RNA. The messenger RNA then exits the nucleus of the cell and is read in the ribosomes where specified translating RNA, one for each of the 20 amino...

   Nobel Prize Design in DNA   The Road to Discovery: In [1902] Emil Fisher, won the Chemistry prize for the discovery of the chemistry of carbohydrates. He was the first to isolate the purines, the proteins which form one half of the DNA code Adenine and Guanine, the other half the closely related pyramidines Thymine and Cytosine form the four bases of DNA. Adenine always joins with Thymine and Guanine with Cytosine to form the two DNA pairs. These two simple combinations form the code behind all living things. In RNA Thymine is usually (but not always) replaced by...

Issue 11.04 - April 2003 Pg 1 of 3>> Print, email, orfax this article for free. The Bacteria WhispererBonnie Bassler discovered a secret about microbes that the science world has missed for centuries. The bugs are talking to each other. And plotting against us.By Steve SilbermanTrim and hyperkinetic at 40, Bonnie Bassler is often mistaken for a graduate student at conferences. Five mornings a week at dawn, she walks a mile to the local YMCA to lead a popular aerobics class. When a representative from the MacArthur Foundation phoned last fall, the caller played coy at first, asking Bassler if...

Genetics: why Prince Charles is so wrong Tuesday, January 28, 2003 By Richard Dawkins Genes work just like computer software, says this writer - which is why the luddites don't get it, but their children probably will.       IT IS HARD TO EXAGGERATE the sheer intellectual excitement of genetics. What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. The genetic code is truly digital, in exactly the same sense as computer codes. This is not some vague analogy, it is the literal truth. Moreover, unlike computer codes, the genetic code is universal. Modern computers...

Evidence Disproving Evolution The basis of a valid scientific theory is that it be able to explain all the scientific data in the field it is concerned with and that no evidence contradicting the theory be true. This is a harsh test, but one which all legitimate scientific theories must pass. This is a test which the theory of evolution has failed in spades as the following abundantly shows. Religion and Science: Access Research NetworkDiscovery Institute -- Origins -- Creation Science -- Creation/Evolution Sites -- Creation & Evolution Links from the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club --...

Turning Off Genes Sheds New Light On How They Switch Puzzling Anomaly in Flowers Yields Advances in Science, Hopes for New Medicine A petunia breaks the rules, by Antonio Regalado Richard Jorgensen's idea was simple enough: make bright purple petunias by splicing into the plants an extra copy of the gene that makes purple pigment. To his astonishment, the flowers bloomed white. That curious outcome defied genetic logic. After appearing on the cover of a prominent plant journal, the puzzling result prompted a wave of scientific inquiry. Now more than a decade later, biologists are starting to get a handle...

If any trait reflects the genes we inherit from our parents, surely it's hair color. Brunettes tend to have dark haired children, and an auburn beauty undoubtedly has a redhead among her ancestors. But hair gets its color from melanin, which is not made directly by genes. Instead, it's formed when the body's metabolism treats a molecule called tyrosine the way a toddler treats a Lego creation: breaking it into component parts. When there's enough copper in the diet, tyrosine breaks down and melanin darkens the tresses. When copper is in short supply, tyrosine doesn't decompose to yield melanin....

Bye Bye Darwin Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate matter, but ...

Bye Bye Darwin Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate matter, but ...

Bye Bye Darwin [Thread V] Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate ...

Bye Bye Darwin Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate matter, but ...

Bye Bye Darwin Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate matter, but ...