Monthly Archives: December 2011
MicroRNA Exchange Between Cells Found to be Key Evolutionary Innovation
| December 25, 2011 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
We recently reported the thought-provoking findings that our genes are not only regulated by our own microRNA—those small snippets of transcribed DNA which were often considered to be useless junk—they are also regulated by the microRNA in the food we eat. In other words, food not only contains carbohydrates, proteins, fat, minerals, vitamins and so forth, it […]
Why might “being made in the image of God” matter for human dignity?
| December 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
Why might that matter for public policy?Look what happens when you take it away.
Steve Fuller’s Christmas lecture, at Swedish Twitter University: “How to think like God”
| December 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Science |
“It’s pretty difficult to rationalize science unless we imagine ourselves as over time, albeit in fits and starts, getting closer to the mind of this hypothesized God,”
Popcorn: watching kinesin in action, as we digest that Christmas turkey and pudding . . .
| December 25, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cell biology, Cybernetics and Mechatronics, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity, Molecular Animations, Video |
Sometimes, seeing is believing. Here is a nice, short summary of the kinesin microtubule highway “walking truck” protein in action: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt This vid gives a bit of context: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Especially notice the role played by Brownian motion, and that played by ATP. So, post turkey and pudding […]
Optical Metamaterials and the Hercules Beetle
| December 25, 2011 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
You may recall that objects have particular colors because, at the molecular level, light rays at certain frequencies (corresponding to certain colors) are reflected while at other frequencies the light is absorbed. In other words, an object’s color has to do with its chemistry. But, as David Tyler points out here, coloration can also arise from […]
Talking Evolution With Evolutionists
| December 24, 2011 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
One day while walking to the life science library I was stopped by a cultist who wanted me to join. Having spoken with cultists before, I was able to explain his problems to him. The cult’s beliefs entailed several obvious contradictions, its leaders had well-documented ulterior motives, and so forth. But the fellow was undeterred. […]
Reb Moshe Averick, skeptic of nonsense marketed as science, mixes it up again with Jerry “Why Evolution Is True” Coyne
| December 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
“I, on the other hand, confidently assert that the gaping chasm between non-life and life is so wide, that it is absurd to think that it could have been crossed by means of an unguided, naturalistic process.”
Cosmology: Why the future belongs to intelligent design
| December 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“We are living in an accidental universe. We are living in a universe uncalculable by science.” Are we?
An explanation need not make any sense these days as long as it supports materialism.
| December 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, News |
Here’s the blurb for yet another stab at a materialist explanation of consciousness, demonstrating that fact:
ID Foundations, 13: Of bird necks and beaks, robots, micro-level black swan events, inductive turkeys & the design inference, the vNSR and OOL (with hints on economic transformation)
| December 24, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cybernetics and Mechatronics, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity |
Over the past few days, I have been reflecting a bit on carrying design theory-relevant thought onwards to issues tied to education and economic transformation. In so doing, I found myself looking at a micro-level, personal black swan event, as I watched student robots picking and placing little plastic widgets much like . . . […]
Neanderthals used feathers as decoration?
| December 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
“The findings add evidence that the now extinct Neanderthals could have been as cultured as our own ancestors.”
Neanderthal mammoth bone house featured decorative carvings, pigments
| December 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
“Up till recently, most researchers studying Neanderthals had assumed they were simple wanderers, hiding out in caves when the weather got bad.”
“The evidence that runs contrary to the view that certain emotions are biologically basic …”
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
One can just smell the lawsuits arising from security interventions based on crackpot evolution theory.
“Higgs bosons regularly pop into existence all over space”
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
Yet the little devils are explicitly avoiding the Large Hadron Collider … hmmm …
“The Hox clock is a demonstration of the extraordinary complexity of evolution”
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Embryology, News |
“This system is the first “mechanical” clock ever discovered in genetics. And it explains why the system is so remarkably precise.”
Evolution and Poker: Professor Says There are no Scientific Problems With Evolution
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Poker players don’t lose with bad hands, they lose with great hands. I once saw a player dealt a four of a kind while the other player was dealt a full house. Those are the second and third best hands in poker, but the fellow dealing the cards had a royal flush—the highest hand in […]
Ideas for carrying design thinking forward into the world of education and industrial transformation
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Education, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society |
As we go into the holiday weekend, it may be worth the while to reflect on how design thinking and key associated ideas — here, especially the von Neumann self-replicator — could help play a role in transforming education, industry and agriculture. Details, here . . . A happy Christmas and a prosperous new year […]
Do Darwinists Believe In Miracles? Are They Engineering Deniers?
| December 22, 2011 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
It seems to me that they do, and that they are. I made the following comment in vjtorley’s thread here: Something that must be kept in mind is that, if proponents of the creative power of the Darwinian mechanism are correct, every aspect of every biological system in every living thing that has ever existed […]
A reply to Professor Moran
| December 21, 2011 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Professor Moran has graciously replied to my recent post, “Will this do, Professor Moran?” (18 December 2011) in which I attempted to flesh out the argument that irreducible complexity requires an Intelligent Designer. I would like to thank him for taking the trouble to write a detailed rebuttal of my argument. Since Professor Moran is […]
Larry Moran Defends “Junk DNA”
| December 20, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan M under Intelligent Design |
Earlier, I responded to remarks made by PZ Myers at the recent Skepticon 4 conference. His subject: “Junk DNA.” On his Sandwalk blog, University of Toronto biochemist Larry Moran has posted a response to my article. Since the post is relatively civil (unusually for Moran, he refrains from calling me an “IDiot”) and offers some […]
