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Might there be fine tuning in nature not just for the existence of the cell but also for its origin—for the transition from a lifeless soup of chemicals to a living cell? Or was the first cell engineered by an intelligent agent, as many advocates of intelligent design maintain? I touch on that question in Chapter 8, but in either case, the emergence of primeval life would be by design, whether imposed on nature at the origin of the first life, or built into the fabric of nature from the beginning. In Miracle in the Cell, Denton examines the “fitness” of the chemical elements for biochemistry. He discusses the chemical properties of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, sulfur, calcium, potassium, sodium, and some of the transition metals in this context. He explores the elements’ electronegativities, bonding geometries, and covalent bond strengths. He discusses Van Der Waals forces, hydrogen bonding, chemical reactivities, and the unique properties of water. He shows how the unique chemical properties of these elements are just what they must be to facilitate the formation and properties of lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids (DNA/RNA).

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a b Eugenio, Monica (December 25, 2019). " 'Miracle In Cell No. 7' A Surprise Hit On Opening Day Of The Metro Manila Film Festival". Cosmopolitan . Retrieved January 1, 2020. Aga Muhlach plans to get buff again for a superhero movie in 2022". ABS-CBN News. December 23, 2019 . Retrieved January 1, 2020.Here, Denton discusses his new book “The Miracle of the Cell” with Eric Anderson in this Zoom event from Discovery Institute in which people from around the world submitted questions to Dr. Denton. However, properties once thought attributable to a vital force have been found to be due to the properties of matter and certain elements in particular. People thought that organic compounds could only be made by living things until the synthesis of urea by Friedrich Wohler in 1828, which showed a biochemical compound could be made by nonbiochemical means. food is oxidized, and molecular oxygen is ultimately reduced via the electron transport chain to generate a current that powers the pumping of protons from the outside to the inside of the mitochondria. The potential difference setup by the resulting proton gradient across the mitochondrial membrane is then used to power a molecular machine called ATP synthase, which converts ADP to ATP for use by the cell’s myriad reactions. Chapter 6: No Biology Without Metals AsO4) are based on arsenic, the next atom in the same family as phosphorus. Although arsenic and phosphorus share some chemical properties, only phosphorus is suitable for its biochemical roles. The alkali metal cations of potassium and sodium rapidly move electric charge across lipid bilayers to establish charge gradients used to do work at the cell membrane. Roughly 10 8 potassium ions can move through an ion channel in a cell membrane each second. This is 10 5 times faster than a carrier protein could accomplish the same task. These ions don’t bind tightly to organic compounds. This speed is essential for the transmission of nerve impulses in more complex animals. Without potassium and sodium ions, central nervous systems would not be possible.

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As mentioned previously, the temperature range needed for life’s biochemistry is essentially the same as the temperature range at which water is a liquid. Denton calls this coincidence a “miracle.” Temperatures below this range makes reactions too slow and temperatures above this range would degrade the organic compounds needed for biochemistry. Also, hydrogen bonding and other weak noncovalent bonds would be disrupted above this narrow temperature range, destroying the 3D shapes critical to the functions of biochemicals. The temperature range for life (–20° to 130°C) is very narrow compared to the range of temperature in nature [absolute zero (–273°C) to millions of degrees in stars]. Chapter 8: The Primal Blueprint The length of fatty acid chains, the nonpolar hydrocarbon portion of phospholipids, is critical to the required properties of cell membranes. The hydrocarbon fatty acid chains usually consist of 16 or 18 carbon atoms (C16, C18) covalently bound in a linear chain. If the hydrocarbon chains were much longer, they would become wax-like and less flexible. Shorter chains are too mobile and would make the membrane less stable. And the C16 and C18 chains provide a membrane with the same width as folded proteins, another remarkable coincidence that suggests foresight and design.

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One intriguing element of fitness for bioenergetics and proton pumping arises directly out of water’s hydrogen-bonded network, which provides so-called “proton wires” consisting of long chains of linked water molecules for moving protons (H ions) around in the cell and across the inner mitochondrial membrane. While, as Alok Jha points out, other charged particles involved in cellular functions have to move themselves physically from one place to another, “protons can pass their energy along a hydrogen-bonded water wire without moving themselves at all, thanks to the so called Grotthuss mechanism.” A proton attaches to one end of the wire, he explains, and in a split second, “each of the hydrogen bonds further along the length of the wire spin around in sequence so that a proton drops off the water molecule at the other end of the wire. The initial proton has not moved any further than the starting end of the wire but its charge and energy have been ‘conducted’ along the wire’s length.” Miracle in Cell No. 7' third most-viewed Korean film". Yonhap. 15 March 2013 . Retrieved 2013-03-20. Ho, Stewart (1 June 2012). "Park Shin Hye to Make Her Return to the Big Screen After Two Years". enewsWorld. CJ E&M. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013 . Retrieved 2012-11-18.

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The fact that all these metals are used in similar ways by all life on earth speaks to their unique fitness for the roles they play. Denton summarizes: The unique properties of iron and copper facilitate electron transport chains required for respiration and other crucial cellular functions. Also, the properties of iron in hemoglobin are just right for the transport of oxygen. The properties of iron and copper make the reduction of oxygen to water by cytochrome c oxidase possible. Zinc is critical to the transport of carbon dioxide in the cell. AI succeeds where the skill required to win is massive calculation and the map IS the territory: Alone in the real world, it is helpless. Next Post At Science mag: “Really weird” gravity would be needed to explain away dark matter Nadine Lustre was supposed to play Padilla's role but withdrew from the film project citing a need to take a break after her stints with two 2019 films, Ulan and Indak. [2] Marketing [ edit ]This prior fitness is manifest also in the extraordinary utility of water to serve as the matrix of the cell, and by chemical processes in the dark vastness of interstellar space that result in the abiotic synthesis of many of the molecular monomers used by the first cells to build their macromolecular constituents. In other words, the “demonic” fitness of the cell depends on a deeper fitness prefigured into the very fabric of reality. This deeper fitness is inscribed in the laws of nature from the beginning of time, a fitness that reveals the cosmos to be, as Henderson proclaimed, a profoundly biocentric whole. Michael Denton Senior Fellow, the Center for Science & Culture and the Center on Human Exceptionalism Michael Denton holds an M.D. from Bristol University, as well as a Ph.D. in biochemistry from King’s College in London. A Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, Denton has had a critical impact on the debate over Darwinian evolution. Follow Michael Profile Share The relative electronegativities of the critical elements of life (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur and others) create bond polarities which result in various types of weak bonding interactions (hydrogen-bonding, Van Der Walls forces, dipole-dipole interactions, etc.) which are critical to the 3D structures and functions of proteins, DNA, RNA, etc. ATP is the cell’s energy currency. A single cell uses 10 million ATP molecules per second, meaning there is roughly a turnover of your body weight in ATP every day. Since there are only 60 g of ATP in our bodies at any given time, each ATP molecule must be used and recharged twice a minute. ATP is thermodynamically unstable but kinetically stable, making it ideal for powering the cell; ATP is stable until it is associated with an enzyme where it releases its thermodynamic energy by being hydrolyzed to adenosine diphosphate (ADP). The negative charges in the phosphate groups make ATP kinetically stable (would have to form a highly charged polyion to form ADP). ATP is universal in all living things—there is no other molecule like it. The chemistry of phosphorus is responsible. If there was no phosphorus, there would be no life. This chapter is a discussion of the properties of water that make life possible. Denton begins with a high-level view of embryogenesis:

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Miracle in Cell No. 7 ( Turkish: 7. Koğuştaki Mucize) is a 2019 Turkish drama film directed by Mehmet Ada Öztekin. It is an official adaptation of the 2013 South Korean comedy-drama film Miracle in Cell No. 7 using the same premise, but with significant changes in story, characters, and tone. [1] It was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. [2] Plot [ edit ]

The film revolves around Lito ( Aga Muhlach), a mentally challenged man who was wrongfully accused of killing the daughter of Secretary Yulo ( Tirso Cruz III) as well as his attempt to maintain relations with his own daughter Yesha ( Xia Vigor) through the help of his fellow inmates. [3] [4] is the most recent in a series of books on evolution and intelligent design by Michael Denton. 2 , 3 , 4

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