Monthly Archives: March 2013
Further Thoughts on “How the Scientific Consensus is Maintained”
| March 30, 2013 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
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The (remade) video below contains the whole shameful story of the treatment my Applied Mathematics Letters paper has received from AML, Springer and The Mathematical Intelligencer. In this paper, and in my reply to Bob Lloyd’s Mathematical Intelligencer piece, whose primary target was this unpublished AML paper, I did not conclude that the second law […]
From SciTechDaily, “Study Describes a Biological Transistor for Computing Within Living Cells”
| March 29, 2013 | Posted by News under News |
An interesting article in SciTechDaily reports on a new study describing “a biological transistor that is made from genetic material (DNA and RNA) in place of gears or electrons.” From the article, When Charles Babbage prototyped the first computing machine in the 19th century, he imagined using mechanical gears and latches to control information. ENIAC, the […]
Surprising Similarities between Genetic and Computer Codes
| March 29, 2013 | Posted by PaV under Evolution, Genetics |
Here’s what we read in this PhysOrg blurb: It may seem logical, but the surprising part of this finding is how universal it is. “It is almost expected that the frequency of usage of any component is correlated with how many other components depend on it,” said Maslov. “But we found that we can determine […]
Optimus, replying to KN on ID as ideology, summarises the case for design in the natural world
| March 27, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Intelligent Design |
The following reply by Optimus to KN in the TSZ thread, is far too good not to headline as an excellent summary of the case for design as a scientifically legitimate view, not mere “Creationism in a cheap tuxedo” ideology motivated and driven by anti-materialism and/or a right-wing, theocratic, culture war mentality commonly ascribed to […]
New PLoS Biology Study On Bacterial Chemoreceptors
| March 27, 2013 | Posted by News under News |
An interesting new study has just been published in PLoS Biology on the subject of the remarkable signal transduction circuity responsible for the process of bacterial chemotaxis (a subject that has long fascinated me) and the switching of flagellar rotation direction. The paper is entitled “HAMP Domain Conformers That Propagate Opposite Signals in Bacterial Chemoreceptors,” and the […]
Video: Biologist Douglas Axe on challenges to Darwinian evolution
| March 25, 2013 | Posted by News under News |
Game-Changing New Book by Stephen Meyer To Be Released in June
| March 25, 2013 | Posted by News under News |
Over at Evolution News & Views, Stephen Meyer’s forthcoming game-changing new book on the Cambrian explosion and the origins of evolutionary novelty is announced. From the article, We’ve been keeping something from you, dear readers, but now it can be told. The evolution debate is about to undergo a paradigm shift. Darwin’s Origin of Species launched a revolution […]
Why Up When Down is Just As Good And A Lot Easier?
| March 25, 2013 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Phinehas asks Neil Rickert a fascinating question about the supposed direction of evolution. Neil says he will address it in a separate thread, and I started this one for that purpose. The rest of the post is Phenehas’ question to Neil: @Neil I also appreciate the professional tone. I am a skeptic regarding what evolution […]
The “Skeptical” Zone, Where You Can Be Skeptical of Anything (Except Currently Fashionable Intellectual Dogmas)
| March 25, 2013 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
For those of you who do not know, some months ago Elizabeth Liddle started the website known as The Skeptical Zone (TSZ). The site has a sort of symbiotic relationship with UD, because many, if not most, of the posts there key off our posts here. Not only does TSZ have a name that invokes a skeptical […]
Acorn Worms from the Cambrian Explosion
| March 25, 2013 | Posted by David Tyler under Intelligent Design |
Soft-bodied worms from the Burgess Shale fossil beds in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada have been known for over 100 years. They are known by the name Spartobranchus tenuis and are considered one of the most abundant species in the Walcott Quarry community. However, only recently has a detailed examination of their characteristics been […]
The equations of evolution
| March 24, 2013 | Posted by niwrad under Evolution, Mathematics |
For the Darwinists “evolution” by natural selection is what created all the species. Since they are used to say that evolution is well scientifically established as gravity, and given that Newton’s mechanics and Einstein’s relativity theory, which deal with gravitation, are plenty of mathematical equations whose calculations pretty well match with the data, one could […]
(More) Function, the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE
| March 24, 2013 | Posted by andyjones under 'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Self-Org. Theory |
I need a picture of a small, hot-blooded mammal taunting an irritable dinosaur. An animation would be even better: the dinosaur would have a tic which makes him roar ‘IDiot’ constantly. Maybe make that several small mammals, becoming dozens and then hundreds. Singing something witty to the hamster dance. Or maybe not that last bit. […]
Plant’s Epigenome as Varied as Their Environments
| March 24, 2013 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
You probably remember that an organism’s DNA is collectively referred to as the genome and that it contains genes that code for proteins. What you may not know is that the genome is tagged here and there with small molecules helping to determine which genes to express. These small molecules are collectively referred to as […]
EA nails it in a response to an insightful remark by KN (and one by Box): “the ability of a medium to store information is inversely proportional to the self-ordering tendency of the medium”
| March 23, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Intelligent Design |
Here at UD, comment exchanges can be very enlightening. In this case, in the recent Quote of the Day thread, two of the best commenters at UD — and yes, I count KN as one of the best, never mind that we often differ — have gone at it (and, Box, your own thoughts — […]
William Bialek: More Perfect Than We Imagined
| March 23, 2013 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Three hundred years ago William Leibniz said we live in the best of all possible worlds but today Princeton’s world reknown theorist William Bialek explains that it is more perfect than we imagined. This video is long and it sometimes dwells on Bialek rather than the slide he is talking to, but those drawbacks are minor […]
Stirring the Pot, 3a: Responding to G2’s dismissal of philosophy at UD by highlighting the scientific significance of first principles of right reason and corollaries, including those tied to cause and effect . . .
G2 has made an objection at 45 in the STP 3 thread on how UD is a philosophy-theology site, and how he sees no science advances. I think it worth the whole to highlight a response, as a headlined post supportive to the STP 3 thread; of course with the added features such as images. […]
KF: Darwinists, not ID Proponents, Have Minds Clamped Tightly Shut.
| March 21, 2013 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
This exchange between lastyearon, KF and Eric Anderson is too delish to leave in a combox: LASTYEARON: What the ID proponents (specifically Eric Anderson and KD) are saying is that evolution isn’t science because it lacks sufficient detail at the molecular level. In order for them to accept that the eye evolved by accident (which […]
Stirring the Pot, 3: What about the so-called Laws of Thought/First Principles of Right Reason?
Cf follow up on laws of thought including cause, here In our day, it is common to see the so-called Laws of Thought or First Principles of Right Reason challenged or dismissed. As a rule, design thinkers strongly tend to reject this common trend, including when it is claimed to be anchored in quantum theory. […]
The Evolution of an Explanation of a Small-Headed Sea Snake
| March 20, 2013 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
I once debated an evolution professor who explained that evolution has tremendous explanatory power. But what exactly does this mean, and is it a good thing? Everyone knows that evolution explains that the species evolved gradually, but for new forms appearing abruptly in the fossil record evolution explains that the species evolved rapidly. Likewise, evolution […]
