The suggestion that the native state of many proteins is intrinsically disordered (or, as originally termed, unstructured) is now integral to our general view of protein structure and function. A little more than 10 years ago, however, such challenge to the almost dogmatic 'structure-function paradigm' was pure heresy due to the overwhelming evidence that structure determines function. A decade...

tioned into such an unquestioning acceptance of its efficacy that it has now attained the status of a medical dogma, the denial of which is tantamount to the gravest charges of irresponsibility or even damnable heresy. Nevertheless there has been some recent criticism of the position, mostly of an indirect nature, and concerned with its harmful side-effects rather than with the central thesis o...

The Shepherd of Hermas1 is “one of the most enigmatic writings to have come down to us from Christian antiquity”; it “bristles with problems, both literary and theological.”2 From a doctrinal point of view, it is puzzling that this text never scandalized its contemporaries or later Orthodoxy.3 Indeed, if the Christology of this writing “is what most interpreters say it is ... it is strange that...

Overwhelming experimental evidence for quarks as real physical constituents of hadrons along with the QCD analogs of the Balmer Formula, Bohr Atom and Schroedinger Equation already existed in 1966. A model of colored quarks interacting with a one-gluon-exchange potential explained the systematics of the meson and baryon spectrum and gave a hadron mass formula in surprising agreement with experi...

Periodically a book is catapulted on the scene that commands the attention of all factions in the creation/ evolution debate. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box is just such a text. Behe, professor of Biochemistry at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has breathed new life into the design argument and articulated an innovative critique of Darwinism which is as sure to fluster Darwinians...