17May 2025 by Post

Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

biology, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, chess pieces, Complexity, concertos, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary, double helix, egg, electric cords, embryo, Evolution, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, Intelligent Design, Leonardo da Vinci, Medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know
I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Source
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30Apr 2025 by Post

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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29Apr 2025 by Post

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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16Dec 2024 by Post

Intelligent Design and Aquinas’ Fifth Way

analogy, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, Bernard Carr, black widow, Catholic philosophy, Catholics, DNA, evangelical Protestants, Faith & Science, genetic mutations, god-of-the-gaps fallacy, gospels, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, intentions, Jesus, John Paul II, Michael Chaberek, molecular biology, natural selection, philosophy, praying mantis, sparrows, specified complexity, Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas did not have examples of specified complexity as in molecular biology, but it is possible to find a text that suggests he would favor of ID. Source
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17Oct 2024 by Post

Information Spreads in the Atmospheric Highway

aeromicrobiome, antibacterial resistance, bacteria, biology, cloud aerosols, clouds, Daisuke Tanaka, desiccation, Enceladus, Evolution News, France, Fumito Maruyama, fungi, Hunga-Tonga volcano, information, information storage, Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, Physics, Earth & Space, Pierre Amato, PLOS ONE, SEA, spores, Titan, Xavier Rodó
Genetic information gets around. In the troposphere — much higher above land than expected — bacteria and fungi hitch a ride to faraway places. Source
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18Sep 2024 by Post

Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro on the Origin of Life

Ben Shapiro, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution, fine-tuning, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, James Tour, methodological naturalism, multiverse, origin of life, Peter Robinson, Podcast, Rice University, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, The Ben Shapiro Sunday Special, The Daily Wire, Uncommon Knowledge
Dr. Meyer explains how the OOL field reached an impasse by the 1980s as chemists learned just how thorny the origin of life problem really was. Source
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17Sep 2024 by Post

Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

brainstem, cardiopulmonary arrest, cell membrane, cell's, chemical concentration, chemicals, death, diffusion, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, extracellular fluid, extraterrestrial life, Genetica, Google AI, Günter Bechly, hospice, information, Intelligent Design, intracellular fluid, just-so stories, liquid water, Medicine, molecular machines, multicellular organism, neurons, osmosis, potassium ions, protein, sodium, sodium ions, sodium-potassium pump, Steve Laufmann, The Extracellular Space (series), The Wonder of Water, water, Your Designed Body
The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Source
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