Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design, with Michael Kent

Albuquerque, algorithms, alternative splicing, amino acid sequences, Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Brian Josephson, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, David Waltham, digital information, discoveries, earth, Earth-like planets, enzymes, fundamental constants, genes, ID The Future, information processing, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, life, Lucky Planet, Michael Kent, molecular biology, molecular machines, mutation, natural selection, physics, Planetology, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sandia National Laboratories, spliceosome, Stephen Meyer, universe, Why Evolution Is Different
Technological advances have led to the discovery of planets outside our solar system, with news heralding the discovery of many “earth-like” planets. Source
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Investigating the Evidence for Intelligent Design — in Biochemistry and Other Fields

amino acid sequences, biochemistry, biology, codes, DNA, Douglas Axe, Evolution, Experience, genetics, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, language, molecular machines, mutational sensitivity, observation, paleontology, physics, protein sequences, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), William Dembski
Irreducible complexity and high CSI systems are found, indicating these systems were designed. Source
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For Darwin Day, Topoisomerase Webinar With Biochemist Joe Deweese

amino acid sequences, animation, biology, Casey Luskin, cell duplication, Center for Science & Culture, Charles Darwin, chromosomes, complex and specified information, Darwin Day, DNA, enzymes, Events, Freed-Hardeman University, Intelligent Design, Joe Deweese, Life Sciences, molecular machines, replication, topoisomerase II, transcription, YouTube videos
This webinar will premiere a new molecular machine animation on the topoisomerase enzyme. Source
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Mistakes Our Critics Make: Protein Rarity

amino acid sequences, antibodies, chemical activities, Dan Tawfik, DNA, Douglas Axe, English, HisA enzyme, Intelligent Design, Journal of Molecular Biology, Niagara Falls, proteins, RNA, sentences, wheelbarrow, β-lactamase enzyme
In previous articles, I demonstrated how substantial quantities of biological information cannot emerge through any natural process (see here and here), and I described how such information points to intelligent design. Now, I am addressing the mistakes typically made by critics who challenge these claims (see here, here, here, and here). See my post yesterday, here, on misapplying information theory.  A second category of errors relates to arguments against the conclusion that the information content of many proteins is vastly greater than what any undirected process could generate. Most of the critiques are aimed at the research of Douglas Axe that estimated the rarity of amino acid sequences corresponding to a section of a functional β-lactamase enzyme. Many of the attacks result from the skeptics’ failure to properly understand Axe’s…
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