Self-organization, exemplified in “dissipative structures” (Prigogine), which can arise in systems maintained far from thermodynamic equilibrium, result in a decrease in information and do not constitute a natural explanation of information-rich biological systems.
Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization
At Phys.org: Chemists create an ‘artificial photosynthesis’ system ten times more efficient than existing systems
“In nature, photosynthesis is performed by several very complex assemblies of proteins and pigments.”
Researchers have not been able to approach the efficiency of the natural process with artificial photosynthesis.
At Phys.org: New study finds our ancient relatives were not so simple after all
Lacking a naturalistic mechanism for the generation of the new information of novel features, the idea of the “loss of features” is put forward as a driving factor for supposed evolutionary advance.
At Phys.org: Learning to better understand the language of algae
Communication implies the purposeful interchange of information. How does intentionality arise from natural interactions between atoms?
From The Wall Street Journal: ‘Imperfection’ Review: Unintelligent Design
Is it valid to say, “Homo sapiens are marvels of unintelligent design”?
At SciTech Daily: Scientists Solve an Origin of Life Mystery
So many steps in this imagined process are mediated against by the known laws of physics, that to suggest it happened naturally is to depart from scientific credibility.
At Evolution News: Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules
“Many variants of Stanley Miller’s experimental setup have been used in attempting to demonstrate the conversion of energy-rich, gaseous-phase chemicals into amino acids and other biomolecular monomers. But this is not nearly sufficient to generate life.”
Evolution News reports on The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding
The significant takeaway is that new research is discovering profound layers of complexity in cellular function that confounds the assumption of unguided interatomic forces as responsible for life.
At Evolution News: Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information
William Dembski writes: I am responding again to Jason Rosenhouse about his book The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism. See my earlier posts here and here. In Rosenhouse’s book, he claims that “natural selection serves as a conduit for transmitting environmental information into the genomes of organisms.” (p. 215) I addressed this claim briefly in my review, indicating that conservation of Read More…
At Phys.org: Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA
“Rice University bioengineers are using deactivated Cas9 proteins to target key segments of the human genome and synthetically trigger the transcription of human genes.”
At Science Daily: Dragonflies use vision, subtle wing control to straighten up and fly right
Researchers have untangled the intricate physics and neural controls that enable dragonflies to right themselves while they’re falling.
L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as Inference, as Theory, as a Movement
It seems, despite UD’s resources tab, some still struggle to understand ID in the three distinct senses: inference, theory/research programme, movement. Accordingly, let us headline a clarifying note from the current thread on people who doubt, for the record: [KF, 269:] >>. . . first we must mark out a matter of inductive reasoning and Read More…
Building a Yacht — design in action
Here, we see a sped up time-lapsed snapshot succession view of the design and construction of a fibreglass vs a wooden yacht: Here is another: Now, let’s scale down to a canoe: We thus see illustrated how . . . design is intelligently directed configuration which makes advantageous, and ideally skilled and artistic, use of Read More…
Wikipedia presents pseudo-“knowledge” [fake “knowledge”?] on ID, yet again
In discussing implication logic and first duties, Wikipedia on ID came up yet again. The lead’s manifest failure to be responsibly objective, descending into slander from the outset, speaks volumes: Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as “an evidence-based scientific theory about life’s origins”.[1][2][3][4][5] Proponents Read More…
Time’s arrow, the design inference on FSCO/I and the one root of a complex world-order (–> Being, logic & first principles, 25)
On August 7th, News started a discussion on time’s arrow (which ties to the second law of thermodynamics). I found an interesting comment by FF: FF, 4: >> It’s always frustrating to read articles on time’s arrow or time travel. In one camp, we have the Star Trek physics fanatics who believe in time travel Read More…