Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail

bacteria, cars, chance, Complexity, Evolution, genome, hieroglyphics, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, life, materialism, Michael Denton, Michael Kent, molecular machines, nature, Podcast, proteins, scientific authorities, scientific inquiry, scientific materialists, software, specified information, unguided natural processes, unintelligent processes, universe
In our experience, this type of specified information always comes from a mind, whether it’s hieroglyphics or the origin of a car. Source
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Living in 3-D: Not a Big Deal? New Video Explains Why It’s a VERY Big Deal

astigmatism, athletes, awareness, body parts, cars, consciousness, cornea, curvature, emergence, Engineering, eyeglasses, headlights, hearing, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, lens, prescription, proprioception, purpose, routine tasks, Secrets of the Human Body, Steve Laufmann, street, three dimensions, vision, walking, Your Amazing Body
Living in three dimensions is crucial not only for athletes, who excel at exploiting the body’s abilities, but for any one of us walking down the street. Source
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Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

abstractions, amphibians, animal art, Antone Martinho-Truswel, art, bear marks, beaver logs, birds, bison paths, cars, cave bears, cave painting, cephalopods, driving, Evolution, fish, Flight, human art, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, Lascaux cave, Michel Lorblanchet, natural selection, Neuroscience & Mind, Pech-Merle cave, reptiles, Sarah Newman, University of Sydney
This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Source
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The Paradox of Biological Reproduction 

Alexander Tsarias, automobiles, BioCosmos, cars, common sense, David Klinghoffer, duplication errors, genetics, grandchildren, information, Intelligent Design, Levinthal paradox, Life Sciences, materialism, mathematics, Model T, molecular biology, natural selection, Plato, Plato's Revenge, replication, reproduction, Richard Sternberg, Timaeus, unintelligent forces
Reproduction poses a difficult paradox for materialistic science despite the fact that we see it happen every day. Source
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Here’s the Other Common Objection to Intelligent Design — Answered

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If you asked me, “Do you believe in evolution?” I would reply “I believe in the evolution of life, and the evolution of automobiles." Source
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Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure

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The most important take away here is that specified complexity makes Shannon information and Kolmogorov information commensurable. Source
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Paper Digest: Application of Animal Forms in Auto Styling

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The preeminence of design in nature and the utility of mimicking natural designs is a concept championed by the intelligent design community. Source
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Three Realities Chance Can’t Explain That Intelligent Design Can

Apple iPhones, cars, College Physics, computers, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Evolution, evolutionists, Intelligent Design, jet airplanes, Michael Behe, nuclear power plants, origin of life, Peter Urone, physics, self-replicating machines, unintelligent forces
The argument for ID could not be clearer: Unintelligent forces cannot rearrange atoms into computers and airplanes and nuclear power plants and smartphones. Source
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Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

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Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Source
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“Do You Believe in Evolution?” A Short Answer

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You don't have time to give a 30-minute answer outlining the different meanings of the word "evolution" and the evidence pro and con for each. Source
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