07Mar 2022 by Post

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

Bacillus, Bacillus subtilis, beauty, biological redundancy, biological systems, biology, catalytic converters, cellular cost, design triangulation, duplicate genes, E. coli, elegance, Elizabeth Mueller, environment variability, enzymes, Evolution, fine-tuning, fitness, function, gene expression, genetic information, Intelligent Design, keyless entry systems, laboratory conditions, maintenance, Neo-Darwinism, optimality, periplasmic enzymes, precision, proteins, responsive backup circuits, robustness, speakers, sporulation, Stanford University, storage, transmission
In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be. Source
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22Oct 2021 by Post

Life: Fearfully and Wonderfully Fine-Tuned

biology, Daniel Díaz, Discovery Institute, entropy, fine-tuning, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Mind Matters News, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, probability theory, Robert J. Marks II, Stockholm University, University of Miami, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
At the center of the discussion are three technical papers, each co-authored by one or more of the three members of the podcast discussion. Source
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10Sep 2021 by Post

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, chemotaxis, Complexity, computer science, degradation, elegance, engineers, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, filament, fine-tuning, gears, gene expression, hook, Intelligent Design, peer-reviewed literature, proteins, rod, Science (journal), stator, Waldean Schulz
The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Source
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18Jul 2021 by Post

Stephen Meyer: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the God Hypothesis

abiogenesis, alien spacecraft, aliens, Avi Loeb, Big Bang, Carl Sagan, Center for Science & Culture, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Francis Crick, Harvard University, intelligence, James Watson, mainstream scientists, New York Post, Nobel Prize, origin of life, panspermia, Physics, Earth & Space, Prometheus, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ridley Scott, Stephen Meyer, U.S. Navy, UFOs, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Mainstream scientists have been speculating about other-than-earthly intelligence for decades. Source
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01Jul 2021 by Post

Bernoulli, Keynes, and the Big Bang

A Treatise on Probability, Bertand’s Paradox, Conservation of Information, dice, distribution of reciprocals, Economics, fine-tuning, France, Great Britain, Jacob Bernoulli, John Maynard Keynes, Keynesian economics, No Free Lunch, nothing, Physics, Earth & Space, Principle of Insufficient Reason, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Scotland, something, thermodynamics, Wales, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
In analysis of fine-tuning, No Free Lunch Theorems, and conservation of information, Bernoulli’s PrOIR is foundational. Source
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03Feb 2021 by Post

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

consciousness, cosmology, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, Evolution, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Francis Collins, geneticists, mathematics, methodological naturalism, natural selection, origin of life, particle physics, Philip Davies, population genetics, Richard Goldschmidt, Richard Lewontin, The Goldilocks Enigma, The Language of God, universe
Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Source
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