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       Long Story Short: Darwinism versus Intelligent Design in a
       concise, accessible, and funny format
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       Date: April 27, 2023, 8:09 pm
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       [center]Origin of Life: You Can't Trust Everything You Hear
       (Long Story Short, Episode 9)[/center]
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       26, 2023
       Can you trust everything you hear about the origin of life?
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       />The short answer is “No.” Many popular science expositors
       overstate the evidence for the natural, chemical origin of life
       and promote gross misinformation to the public on this topic.
       This video reviews popular claims made about the origin of life
       and shows why they are contradicted by the evidence, misleading,
       or flat out false.
       
       This is the sixth of several episodes about the origin of life
       presented as part of the Long Story Short series. If you enjoyed
       this one, you will like all the others. Clever, humorous,
       substantive, brief, “Long Story Short," is an occasional video
       series that compresses key points in the debate between
       Darwinism and intelligent design into a very welcome format:
       concise, accessible, and funny.
       &#1421;  [glow=blue,2,300]Long Story Short[/glow]
       The videos critiqued in this episode are as follows:
       &#9658; “Where Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and
       Eons!),” from Be Smart, at: • Where Did Life Co...
       &#9658; “Can Science Explain the Origin of Life?,” from Stated
       Clearly, at:
       • Can Science Expla...
       &#9658; “What Is the RNA World Hypothesis?,” from Stated
       Clearly, at: • What Is the RNA W...
       Are humans the accidental products of a blind and uncaring
       universe?
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       Re: Long Story Short: Darwinism versus Intelligent Design in a
       concise, accessible, and funny format
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       Date: June 2, 2023, 2:41 pm
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       [center]
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       [center]&#128051; Whale Evolution: Good Evidence for Darwin?
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       />(Long Story Short, Ep. 2) [/center]
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       Discovery Science 200K subscribers 99,122 views  Apr 23, 2020
       SPECIAL OFFER: Get a free book chapter by biologist Jonathan
       Wells that critically examines the evidence for whale evolution.
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       This chapter
       contains reference notes to much of the content mentioned in
       this video, so it will help you further explore this topic.
       [glow=red,2,300]Darwinists[/glow] often point to the whale
       fossil record as one of the best examples ::) of an evolutionary
       transition. But is it?
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       />[glow=red,2,300]Charles Darwin[/glow] wrote in
       [glow=red,2,300]The Origin of Species[/glow]: “I can see no
       difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural
       selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits,
       with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as
       monstrous as a whale.”
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       Bears turning into whales?
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       />Scientists today disagree, instead [glow=red,2,300]claiming
       that
       other land animals[/glow] were the real precursors to today’s
       whales.
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       “Just think of all the parameters that would have to be
       modified,” says biologist Richard Sternberg, “and then multiply
       that by, I don’t know — a thousandfold, or more than that.
       That’s the scale of the problem that you’re dealing with.”
       “Long Story Short," is a new occasional video series that
       compresses key points in the debate between Darwinism and
       intelligent design into a very welcome format: concise,
       accessible, and funny.
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       Be sure to check out episode 1 in the Long Story Short series,
       "Is Homology Evidence for Evolution?"
       [center]Is Homology Evidence for Evolution?
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       />(Long Story Short, Ep. 1)[/center]
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       #Post#: 1079--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Long Story Short: Darwinism versus Intelligent Design in a
       concise, accessible, and funny format
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: June 2, 2023, 2:42 pm
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       [center]Antibiotic Resistance & Bacterial
       [glow=red,2,300]Evolution[/glow]: What’s the
       &#128104;&#8205;&#128300;&#128300; Real Story?
       ([glow=green,2,300]Long Story Short, Ep. 3[/glow])
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       Discovery Science 200K subscribers 39,917 views  Premiered Nov
       12, 2020
       Bacterial evolution and antibiotic resistance is one of the all
       time greatest hits regarding evidence for Darwinian evolution.
       It’s true that antibiotics do stop working sometimes, AND
       antibiotic resistance is a form of evolution. But is this a
       demonstration of the creative power of Darwinian evolution, or
       is there something else going on?
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       />Explore more:
       [center]The Effects of Mutation (Secrets of the Cell with
       Michael Behe, Ep. 4)
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       [center]Michael Behe Exposes How Mutations Fail To Invent
       (Science Uprising Ep. 6)
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       Escherichia coli K-12 substr. MG1655 Chromosome: 645,100 -
       654,550
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       Richard Lenski on his lab work
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       AP News article:
       [center]Frozen Corpses Yield Drug-Resistant Bacteria That
       Predate Antibiotics
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       If you have any feedback or criticism, let us know and we’ll try
       to address it (please be civil): longstoryshort@discovery.org
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       Long Story Short: Why unguided natural mechanisms ... ... can't
       explain the origin of life.
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: November 8, 2023, 4:49 pm
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       [center]Origin of Life Requires Information
       [glow=green,2,300](Long Story Short, Ep. 11)[/glow]
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       Discovery Science  209K 5,536 views  Nov 7, 2023
       Life depends on information, but can unguided material processes
       produce the information needed for the first life? This episode
       of Long Story Short shows why unguided natural mechanisms can't
       produce new [glow=blue,2,300]biological information[/glow], and
       therefore can't explain the [glow=blue,2,300]origin of
       life[/glow].
       &#128104;&#8205;&#128300; REFERENCES AND NOTES
       1. Sara Walker & Paul Davies, The Algorithmic Origins of Life,
       10 J. Royal Society Interface 1 (2013)
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       2. Technically, the term “information” represents a decrease in
       uncertainty.  Now that we have conveyed this information, you
       should be less uncertain.
       3. See:
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       4. This is related to the concept of “specified” information,
       but it is not “complex”.
       5. OK, a snowflake isn’t exactly “repetitive”. Technically, its
       shape could convey information about the temperature and water
       vapor concentration that formed its crystal structure.  But,
       this “information” is minimal and does not “do” anything.
       6. This is related to the concept of “complex” information, but
       it is not “specified”.
       7. A completely random sequence, once it is known, technically
       conveys “syntactic” or Shannon information. It’s useless, but
       technically “information” according to Shannon.
       8. The formal concept of Complex Specified Information includes
       messages like the Gettysburg Address that could not be produced
       by random processes, given the entire probabilistic resources of
       the universe. We’ll try to keep this simple by avoiding
       probabilities.
       9. …and the other required information found in the elements of
       life.
       10. Importantly, physics and chemistry do not specify any
       particular ordering of the nucleotides in DNA or RNA.  Any
       ordering is equally likely to occur, unless it is somehow
       guided. The matter does not create information on its own.
       11. Coding for proteins is useless unless a cell already has
       protein manufacturing machinery. The code to produce the protein
       manufacturing machinery is immense:  In the simplest known life,
       JVCI Syn3A, this functionality alone requires 149 genes and more
       than 100,000 base pairs of DNA!!
       Breuer M, et al. Essential metabolism for a minimal cell. eLife,
       2019. 8.
       12. Zhang F. Differential arginylation of actin isoforms is
       regulated by coding sequence-dependent degradation. Science
       2010; 329: 1534-1537.
       13. Lasa I, Toledo Arana A, Gingeras TR. An effort to make sense
       of antisense transcription in bacteria. RNA Biol. 2012; 9:
       1039-1044.
       14. Stergachis AB. Exonic transcription factor binding directs
       codon choice and affects protein evolution. Science 2013; 342:
       1367-1372.
       15. Feltens R. An unusual mechanism of bacterial gene expression
       revealed for the RNase P protein of Thermus strains.  PNAS 2003;
       100: 5724-5729.
       16. Lynn Helena Corporale.  The Implicit Genome. p. 21 Oxford
       University Press, © 2006.
       17. Joyce GF. Forty years of in vitro evolution. Angew Chem Int
       Ed. 2007; 46: 6420-6436. Doi: 10.1002/anie.200701369.
       18. See previous Long Story Short videos for more information.
       19. Kun A, Sandos M, Szathmary E. Real ribozymes suggest a
       relaxed error threshold. Nature Genetics 2005; 37: 1008-1011.
       20. Tjhung KF, Shokhirev MN, Horning DP, Joyce GF. An RNA
       polymerase ribozyme that synthesizes its own ancestor. PNAS
       2020; 117: 2906-2913.
       21. Winkler WC, et al. Control of gene expression by a natural
       metabolite-responsive ribozyme. Nature, 2004; 428: 281–286.
       22.  (a) Zhang W, et al., Engineering the ribosomal DNA in a
       megabase synthetic chromosome. Science 2017; 355: 6329. (b) Iida
       T, Kobayashi T, RNA Polymerase I Activators Count and Adjust
       Ribosomal RNA Gene Copy Number. Mol Cell. 2019; 73: 645-654.
       23. “Methodological naturalism” only allows purely natural
       explanations to be considered in a scientific investigation. As
       a result, science only seeks the best natural explanation, not
       the absolute truth.
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       [center]The Effects of Mutation (Secrets of the Cell with
       Michael Behe, Ep. 4)
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       [center]Michael Behe Exposes How Mutations Fail To Invent
       (Science Uprising Ep. 6)
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       Ecocyc, E. coli citrate related genes:
       Escherichia coli K-12 substr. MG1655 Chromosome: 645,100 -
       654,550
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       Richard Lenski on his lab work
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       AP News article:
       [center]Frozen Corpses Yield Drug-Resistant Bacteria That
       Predate Antibiotics
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       />
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       If you have any feedback or criticism, let us know and we’ll try
       to address it (please be civil): longstoryshort@discovery.org
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