26Mar 2024 by Post

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

astrobiologists, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, DNA processors, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, life, Life Sciences, nucleotide operations, ocean surface, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, processing speed, prokaryotes, supercomputers, Titan supercomputer, United Kingdom Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water, yottabases, yottaNOPS
Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Source
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25Mar 2024 by Post

Is Evolution’s “Third Way” Natural? (And Are We Allowed to Reference It?) 

Andreas Wagner, Carl Hemple, creationism, Denis Noble, equivocation, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, Hemple’s Dilemma, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, natural, naturalism, neo-Darwinian synthesis, philosophers, Plato, Platonic forms, Raju Pookottil, reality, supernatural, The Arrival of the Fittest, The Third Way, University of Zurich
As the body of evidence against the Darwinian model has grown ever larger, many scientists have started peeling off to look for other options. Source
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20Mar 2024 by Post

Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible

active transport, anion, aquaporins, cation, cell membrane, chloride channels, chloride ions, concentration gradient, cornucopia, Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator, death, disease, entropy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, ion channels, irreducibly complex structures, life, Maxwell’s demon, natural forces, Nobel Prize, non-life, osmosis, passengers, passive transport, PNAS, potassium channels, residues, Roderick MacKinnon, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selectivity filters, sodium channels, unnatural selection, wildfire smoke, X-ray machines
TSA workers at airports could never boast of this much quality control in their authentication protocols. Source
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19Mar 2024 by Post

Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

accommodationism, Andreas Wagner, biological complexity, biology, convergence, Evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fine-tuning, fitness landscapes, flora and fauna, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, Ockham’s razor, preconditions, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, science, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), William Dembski
If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Source
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18Mar 2024 by Post

Ingenious Artistry in the Origin of Hummingbirds

artistry, Aves, Centropogon, contingency, death, Docimastes ensifer, Ensifera ensifera, Ernst Mayr, Eutoxeres, Evolution, females, genetic drift, happenstance, Heliconia, hummingbirds, Intelligent Design, Lophornis gouldii, males, marvelous spatuletail, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, pain, peacock, phenotype, plumage, red-tailed comet, references, Richard Dawkins, Sappho sparganurus, sexual dimorphism, sicklebills, Stephen Meyer, sword-billed hummingbird, Trochilidae, waste
In contrast with neo-Darwinism, I conclude that an absolutely ingenious artist was at work here, transcending all human abilities, ideas, and powers. Source
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16Mar 2024 by Post

The Incredible Design of Muscles

Andrew McDiarmid, antagonists, biochemistry, circulatory system, Complexity, connective tissue, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, Intelligent Design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, muscle contraction, muscle fibers, muscles, nervous system, respiratory system, skeletal system, synergists, tendons
To understand the limitations of evolutionary mechanisms, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity,” as biochemist Michael Behe writes. Source
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15Mar 2024 by Post

Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

Africa, Anthracotheriidae, biology, brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, Charles Darwin, constancy, corals, Doliochoeridae, Ernst Mayr, Evolution, evolutionary derivations, foraminifers, fossil record, genera, Georges Cuvier, ghost lineages, Hippopotamidae, Hippopotamus amphibius, hippos, Intelligent Design, Louis Agassiz, Martin Pickford, megafauna, National Geographic, ostracods, paleontology, species, stasis, subfamilies, trilobites, ” and waiting around without any function that might explain why natural selection working on random mutations bothered to engineer them
The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Source
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14Mar 2024 by Post

Newly Discovered War Machines in the Immune System

ATP synthase motor, bacteria, bacterial cell wall, biology, body bag, caspase-4, Darwin’s Bluff, dimers, Evolution, Foresight (book), GBP1 proteins, guanylate binding proteins, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, immune proteins, infection, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, John MacMicking, kinesin, mere abstract, molecular machines, Mother Nature, natural selection, Origin of Species, pathogen, Robert Shedinger, terrorist, viruses, Yale University
A newly discovered defense against pathogens involves armor and bullets that render an attacker immobile and self-destructing. Source
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11Mar 2024 by Post

Aliens in the Garbage

A Fortunate Universe, aliens, biology, David Klinghoffer, DNA, employment, extraterrestrial visits, extraterrestrials, Garry Nolan, immunologists, Intelligent Design, Joana Xavier, micromachines, nanomachines, naturalistic explanations, origin of life, Physics, Earth & Space, scientists, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer
Some people — whether they would put it in so many words or not — believe that certain types of answers are simply off-limits in a scientific inquiry. Source
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