Lifes Structure and Function - Origins

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Answer PRIOR to watching the video.
1. How do you think life originated? Why do you think so?
2. In your opinion is it okay to infer, in science, that a designer is behind the intricacy of nature? (ie God
or a god created the world around us.) Why or why not?
3. If you knew nothing about Mt Rushmore (right) and
discovered it one day, what would your first thought be,
Wow, who is the artist behind this? or Wow, look what the
rain and wind shaped.
4. Do we need to know the designer of Mt Rushmore to know that there was a person who created it?

While watching the Video
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5. Why did the group of scientist gather together?
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6. Was Darwin the first scientist to suggest the theory of Evolution? Yes or No.
7. How many species of finches live in the Galapagos Islands? ______
How many did Darwin bring back to England? _______
8. During times of drought, which beak type will survive best? ___________________
9. What happens to the birds with the shorter beaks? __________________________
10. To Darwin, _______________ _______________ explained the appearance of design without a
designer.
11. Where can natural selection be explained best?
a. small scale change (change of beak) or
b. large scale change - the real complexity of life (bird itself)
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12. Michael Behe began to question what he was taught in school about the origins of life. What led him
to question evolution?
13. Behes specticism derived mostly from what modern biology has revealed about lifes most
fundemetal unit, the ___________.
14. Behe talks about the cell and how amazing it truly is. He describes how they are made up of many,
many little ______________________.
15. The flagella motor is similar to what man made machine? _________________________.
16. Some flagella motors can turns at a rate of _______________ RPM. (rotation per minute) WOW!
17. Stop and look up the rpms of the fastest car or bike or plane. How does the flagella motor of a
bacteria compare?
18. It only takes _______ turn for them to turn and change directions.
19. In your opinion, could a flagella motor come together by chance? Explain.
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20.What is Irreducible Complexity?
21. What common item can we use to illustrate Irreducible Complexity? ______________________
22. How many different protein parts make up a flagella motor? _____________
23. PAUSE and think about how these proteins are made.
24. What happens if there either the flagella doesnt ___________ or doesnt get ______________.
25. How does Irreducible Complexity come against Darwins theory?
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26. Behe published a book Darwins Black Box. In it he states that Natural Selection could not have
produced these irreducible complex systems, instead they are best explained through what process?
I_______________ D______________
27. Behes critics stated that he underestimated the power of _______________ ______________.
They argued that the flagella motor could have been constructed from what?
28. What is that theory called? __________________. It essentially says that natural selection or
evolution was able, at some point, to borrow parts from one molecular machine to build another.
29. The flagella motor has 40 parts, _______ already existed in another molecular machine, meaning
that ______ would have to be unique.
30. The building of a molecular machine, like the bacteria flagella motor, has been compared to the
plans used to build a house. Why can we make this comparison?
31. If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been
formed by numerous, successive slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Who said this? ___________________
32. Does Irreducible complex molecular systems, like the flagella motor, absolutely break down
Darwins theory?
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33. Darwin described the history of life on earth as a great, branching tree. The base of the tree
represented _________________________. The branches were new and more complex
__________________________.
34. What did Darwin have to say about the base of the tree, about the origins of life?
35. Later in the 1920&30s, a Russian scientist, Alexander Oparin, posed a hypothesis on the origin of
the first cell called, ________________ ___________________ .
36. Dean Kenyon continued the study of Chemical Evolution and was one of the leading scientists in the
1950&60s. What was the name of the book he authored? _______________________________
Video Part 7:
** This is one of the best parts of the series! If I was with you, I would be very excited about all
that Part 7 has to say!!
37.To explain how life began, Dean Kenyon first had to account for the origin of the essential building
blocks of every cell, the _________________!!!
38. Even simple cells are made up of ___________ (#) of proteins.
39. How many different amino acids are there? _________.
40. How types of proteins are there? ______________.
41. Proteins, like written language and computer codes, have a order degree of specificity. The function
of the whole depends on the precise arrangement of the individual parts. What structure codes for
the order of the amino acids that make a protein? __ __ __!
42. Dean Kenyon wrote in his book Biochemical Predestination what he thought was the explanation
of how the amino acids arranged together in the proper sequence. He proposed that the
______________ properties of the amino acids caused them to be _________________ to one
another, forming the long chains that became the first proteins.
43. Many scientists embraced with Kenyon and his book was a best seller for how many years? ______.
44. Only ____ years after Kenyon wrote the book, he began to doubt his theory. He was confronted
with a powerful counterargument given to him by _____________________________________.
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45. Most densely packed and elaborately detailed assembly of information in the known universe.
What is the video referring to with this statement?
46. Kenyon continued to study how proteins were built. Further studies showed that amino acids could
or could not arrange themselves in the proper sequence to build a functioning protein.
47. Kenyon began to question what the source of the biological information in DNA was, who or where
did this information come from. Where do you think the language of DNA originate?
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48. Consider the difficultly of constructing two lines of a _____________________ play by random
change alone. The first cells instructions (DNA) would be long enough to fill ___________ of pages
of printed text. Could this happen by chance? Yes or No.
49. Can natural selection be used to explain the first cell? Yes or No.
50. What explanation did Dean Kenyon begin to look into as a plausible explanation for the beginnings
of life on Earth? I_________________ D___________________
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**Oooohhhhhhhhh! This one is also SO, SO good!
51. What is being made at the beginning of this segment?!?
52. What does Kenyon say about this process? This is absolutely ____________________!! To
perceive at this scale of size such a finely tuned apparatus a device that bares the marks of intelligent
design and manufacturing.
It is absolutely MIND BOGGLING!!! (time 3:23) Listen to him say it again, he is overjoyed by it!
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53. Respond to the first 2 minutes of this segment. Do you agree with what it is saying?
54. Dempski came to a conclusion about how we can infer that something is designed. He stated that
there needs to be 2 things present, what are they?
55. Small probability + Specification = Design
Within our DNA would you say that there is a small probability of its certain arrangement? Yes or No.
Is our DNA specific? Does it code for something? Can it be understood? Yes or No.
Is our cell designed? Yes or No.
56. Give an example of something that shows design. _____________________________________
57. Small probability and specification points towards a designer or intelligence. This could also be
referred to as I____________________.
58. What is the SETI stand for?
59. They are looking for information rich _____________________. Typically radio telescopes receive
random noise or simple repetitive signals produced naturally. If they ever receive an information
bearing signal, this would confirm the existence of _______________________ life beyond the
Earth.
60.Scientists found a wealth of information in our _______. Using the same logic as SETI, does this
suggest that there is intelligence behind the DNA?
61. A full complement of human DNA has ________________________ individual characters!
62. Where does this meaningful information (in DNA) come from?
Responding to this statement.
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63. Phillip Johnson defined good science as _______________________________________
_________________________.
64. In your opinion is can intelligence be used to explain science?