Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction ...
However, the evolution of photosynthesis goes back even further, to the earliest cells that evolved the ability to capture light energy and use it to produce energy-rich molecules. When these ...
The simplest viruses are parasites in cells of other organisms ... All this is understandable in the light of evolution theory; but what a senseless operation it would have been, on God's part ...
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While 80% of the human genome—the complete set of DNA in our cells ... which can afford risky new genes that drive faster ...