The Immaterial Origins of Human Creativity

Artificial Intelligence, brain chemistry, Creativity, Engineering, Eric Holloway, Ideas, information, Intelligent Design, Meaning, Mind Matters News, Minding the Brain, natural intelligence, natural processes, Neuroscience & Mind, novels, Pat Flynn, random processes, Robert J. Marks, speeches
Join Pat Flynn and his guests as they climb the metaphorical mountain of information to address the origins of human creativity. 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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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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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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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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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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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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