20Jan 2025 by Post

Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea

Ada Lovelace, Analytical Engine, BIO-Complexity, Celestial Mechanics, Charles Babbage, closed system, computer science, Conservation of Information, Edgar Allen Poe, Energy, Evolution, H. A. Rowland, Intelligent Design, large language models, Law of Conservation of Information, Léon Brillouin, Leonard Susskind, Library of Alexandria, Maelzel’s Chess Player, Peter Medawar, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert J. Marks II, search, search algorithm, The Limits of Science
Conservation of information” is a term that appears in both the physics and the computer science literature. Source
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19Jan 2025 by Post

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

ancestral species, Avalon explosion, bacteria, biological explosions, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, descendant species, Evolution, genes, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mammals, neo-Darwinian process, paleontologists, paleontology, placental mammals, Podcast, protein folds, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Triassic explosion
“There’s no reasonable way,” Bechly concludes, “to get from bacteria to mammals via evolutionary processes.” Source
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16Jan 2025 by Post

New “Long Story Short” Video Addresses Challenges from Junk DNA Defenders

anger, David Klinghoffer, ENCODE, ENCODE scientists, Endogenous retroviruses, ERVs, Evolution, Francis Collins, Human Genome Project, Intelligent Design, Internet, Jonathan McLatchie, Jonathan Wells, Junk DNA, Long Story Short, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, Rob Sheldon, rudeness, science stopper, The Greatest Show on Earth, “selfish gene”
Of course, die-hard evolution defenders were not going to take these major shifts in thinking about “junk DNA” sitting down. Source
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14Jan 2025 by Post

The End of the Machine Metaphor? 

"survival of the fittest", animals, bears, biology, Books, Casey Luskin, celibacy, chihuahua, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, Fiction, Foresight (book), foxes, genes, How Life Works, Intelligent Design, machines, Marcos Eberlin, Meaning, Oskar Schindler, otters, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, reproduction, Science and Faith in Dialogue, self-sacrifice, survival, work, writing
Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Source
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10Jan 2025 by Post

The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

Conservation of Information, David Thomas, Design Inference, displacement fallacy, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, evolutionary computing, fitness, Intelligent Design, mathematics, mount improbable, Nature (journal), Peter Robinson, pigeonhole principle, Richard Dawkins, shell game, simulation, Tesla, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Ray, Thomas Schneider, William Shakespeare
In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. Source
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