Lecture 20: RNA World DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 20: RNA World. This lecture discusses the current favorite solution to the chicken and egg problem of DNA and proteins, known…
Lecture 19: The Chicken and Egg Problem DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 19: The Chicken and Egg Problem. This lecture begins looking at another problem for theories that posit that life originated randomly…
Lecture 18: Genetic Algorithms and the No Free Lunch Theorem DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 18: Genetic Algorithms and the No Free Lunch Theorem. This lecture, the longest in the course, concludes the Information Enigma subseries. …
Lecture 16: How Many “Second” Genetic Codes? DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 16: How Many “Second” Genetic Codes? Here, we continue looking at the multilayered nature of information in DNA, such as alternative…
Lecture 17: Wrapping Up the Multiple Layers DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 17: Wrapping Up the Multiple Layers. Â This lecture completes the code within a code subseries with a look at the latest…
Lecture 15: A Code within a Code DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 15: A Code within a Code. This lecture shows in some detail cutting edge discoveries about how DNA is a “code…
Lecture 13: The Computational Capacity of the Universe DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 13: The Computational Capacity of the Universe. The staggering odds against forming a single functional protein by chance (a reflection of…
Lecture 14: Introduction to Multilayered Information DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 14: Introduction to Multilayered Information. The amazing informational properties of DNA thus far examined have assumed “linear” information, i.e., that DNA…
Lecture 12: On Proteins and Protons DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 12: On Proteins and Protons. This lecture continues the “Information Enigma” series. It shows how and why functional proteins are so…
Lecture 11: Beginning to Quantitate Genetic Information DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 11: Beginning to Quantitate Genetic Information. Genetic information will be quantitated through looking at amino acid sequences in proteins, the end-product…
Lecture 10: Introducing the Information Enigma DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 10: Introducing the Information Enigma. This lecture begins a 9 lecture series which is the heart of the course. It introduces…
Lecture 9: The Myth of Junk DNA DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 9: The Myth of Junk DNA. This lectures continues the prior, looking closely at the latest scientific advances which have shown…
Lecture 8: Introducing the Argument from Dysteleology DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 8: Introducing the Argument from Dysteleology. This lecture begins a 2 lecture min-series subtitled Dysteleology and the Issue of Junk DNA. …
Lecture 5: Introducing the Digital Code DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 5: Introducing the Digital Code. Building on the previous lectures which showed that DNA is essentially a digital code for storing…
Lecture 4: Introduction to Mutations DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 4: Introduction to Mutations. Now that we understand the structure of DNA – how it functions as a code to store…
Lecture 3: The basic structure and function of DNA DNA & Design Series by Dr Gasser Hathout Lecture 3: The basic structure and function of DNA. This lecture introduces the basic structure of DNA, and the 4-base pair genetic…
