Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

atoms, biology, biomolecular activities, biosignature, Brian Miller, cell, choices, chromosomes, cognition, dance, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, Evolution, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, limbic system, living systems, natural processes, primitive, response, sense, unnatural
The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Source
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Is Christianity Unjust? Plus 3 Other BIG Questions

Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, eschatology, Evolution, morality, philosophy, Podcast, Q&A, religion, Resurrection, theology
Was the sacrifice of Jesus unjust? Is common ancestry true? And what will happen when Jesus returns? This week, Frank kicks off the episode by tackling a BIG question about the implications of Jesus’ death and resurrection, and it only gets more interesting from there! As he responds to questions sent in by listeners he’ll also answer questions like: What is preterism and why doesn’t the Bible tell us when Jesus is returning? Does regeneration come before faith? How can tough marriages glorify God and is incompatibility a good reason to get divorced? Why doesn’t God ensure that all people will become Christians? What is irreducible complexity and is it consistent with the atheistic worldview? How are digital distractions drawing us away from God? Do you have a question for…
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The Math Behind the Immaterial Genome 

algorithm, algorithmic information, carbohydrates, cognition, David Klinghoffer, death, deformations, development, DNA, egg, embryo, embryology, Evolution, fetus, genes, immaterial genome, infant, information, instructions, Intelligent Design, lipids, mathematics, mutations, Mycoplasma genitalium, Plato, Plato's Revenge, preformationist, proteins, Richard Sternberg, RNA, scientific reasoning, simulation software package, trans-computational, zygote
While not a formal defense, this analysis aims to give readers an intuitive grasp of the reasoning behind Richard Sternberg's Platonic perspective. Source
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Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

agency, Archaeology, Big Bang, biology, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, cell, complex and specified information, DNA, embryo, Evolution, evolutionary, evolutionism, genes, Heresy, historical science, history, immaterial genome, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, J. Scott Turner, National Museum of Natural History, peer-reviewed literature, philosophy, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, purpose, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal
David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Source
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Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

cabbage, carrots, Charles Darwin, civilizations, Copernican moment, earth, Evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, genes, history, human beings, human exceptionalism, Human Genome Project, Intelligent Design, life, machinery, Matt Ridley, music, natural selection, Nicolaus Copernicus, Planetology, planets, sun
I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Source
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Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge

Artificial Intelligence, bias, COSM, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, editors, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, LarrySanger.org, Nathan Jacobson, natural selection, random mutation, scientific reasoning, settled science, truth-seeking, Wikipedia
Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design. Source
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Back to the Future with Larry Sanger — And Chris Rufo, Richard Sternberg, and Michael Egnor

Antonio Gramsci, Bible, Christianity, Christopher Rufo, Communists, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, How the Regime Rules, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, Marxists, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, Plato, Plato's Revenge, political science, Richard Sternberg, scripture, Stephen Meyer, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus, Wall Street Journal, Wikipedia, William Dembski
There is something thrilling about looking back at a neglected text or person from the past and finding that — wow! — it or he speaks to issues of my own day. Source
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Pope Francis, Evolution, and the Curia

Associated Press, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Christianity, Curia, elites, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Evangelical Catholicism, Evolution, Faith & Science, George Weigel, Intelligent Design, materialism, media, National Review, newspapers, Pontifical Council on Culture, Pope Francis, religion, Roman Catholicism, Secularism, sexual misbehavior, Templeton Foundation, Vatican City, young people
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is “just another office down the street,” as one Vatican insider told me. Source
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High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, chickadees, cockatoos, common sense, crows, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, Giacomo Gattoni, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, Intelligent Design, logic, mammals, Maria Antonietta Tosches, Neuroscience & Mind, Niklas Kempynck, Onur Güntürkün, problems, ravens, Ruhr University Bochum, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu, zoology
A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Source
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