Category: Design inference
Transcription Factors Play “Football”
| September 25, 2017 | Posted by PaV under Cell biology, Design inference, Evolutionary biology, Of General Interest |
This just in from PhysOrg: We had no idea that we would discover that transcription factors operated in this clustered way. The textbooks all suggested that single molecules were used to switch genes on and off, not these crazy nano footballs that we observed.” The team believe the clustering process is due to an ingenious […]
Flawed forensics: DNA analysis is NOT The Truth, as in endless cop show reruns
| September 16, 2017 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design, Mind |
And much harm follows from believing so. From Shawna Williams at The Scientist: Cutting-edge DNA identification techniques used by the office of New York City’s chief medical examiner were less reliable than claimed, some experts say. … “I’m 100 percent convinced that there are many people who are incarcerated who were convicted with DNA evidence […]
Dembski on design detection in under three minutes
| September 6, 2017 | Posted by News under Design inference |
From David Klinghoffer at Evolution News & Views: We last checked in with Robert Lawrence Kuhn of the PBS series Closer to Truth as he interviewed physicist and Nobel laureate Brian Josephson who said he was “80 percent” sure of intelligent design. (BOOM.) These aren’t brand new interviews by Kuhn, but still very interesting – […]
How plant architectures mimic subway networks
| July 26, 2017 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Design inference, Ecology, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: Using 3D laser scans of growing plants, Salk scientists found that the same universal design principles that humans use to engineer networks like subways also guide the shapes of plant branching architectures. The work, which appears in the July 26, 2017, issue of Cell Systems, could help direct strategies to increase crop yields […]
New instruction manual discovered for repairing broken DNA
| June 29, 2017 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Design inference |
From ScienceDaily: Drexel University and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have discovered how the Rad52 protein is a crucial player in RNA-dependent DNA repair. The results of their study, published in Molecular Cell, reveal a surprising function of the homologous recombination protein Rad52. They also may help to identify new therapeutic targets for cancer treatment. […]
Design Disquisitions: Design & the Problem of Intelligibility
| June 16, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Back to Basics of ID, Complex Specified Information, Design inference, ID, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
Many critics of intelligent design argue that not only is ID false (or at least unscientific), but that it is basically meaningless. Such lines of criticism come from philosophers such as Sahotra Sarkar and Elliott Sober. They argue that the general concepts that are assumed in ID discussions like ‘design’ and ‘intelligence’ are too primitive and […]
Confusing Probability: The “Every-Sequence-Is-Equally-Improbable” Argument
| June 4, 2017 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Complex Specified Information, Design inference, Information, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Probability |
Note to Readers: The past few days on this thread there has been tremendous activity and much discussion about the concept of probability. I had intended to post this OP months ago, but found it still in my drafts folder yesterday mostly, but not quite fully, complete. In the interest of highlighting a couple of the issues […]
FFT: Antikythera, Paley, Crick, Axe, the “first computer” claim and the design inference on sign
| May 31, 2017 | Posted by kairosfocus under Back to Basics of ID, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Design inference, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, Selective Hyperskepticism |
The Antikythera mechanism is a fascinating object (thanks, EA . . . ), one that is often called the “first” [Analogue] Computer. It was recovered from a Roman shipwreck (likely c. 50 – 80 BC) near the island of that name, and the origin of the mechanism has been a challenge ever since a key observation […]
Design Disquisitions: Peter S. Williams on Intelligent Design
| May 22, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Audio, Biology, Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Food for thought, ID, Irreducible Complexity, Naturalism, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, Podcasts, Science |
In the latest post at Design Disquisitions I focus on the excellent work on ID by British philosopher Peter S. Williams. He has published several papers, and has many high quality articles and media presentations on the subject. His work was instrumental in initiating my change of mind from theistic neo-Darwinism to design. Highly recommended stuff! Peter […]
Fred Hoyle thought that there is design in nature
| May 20, 2017 | Posted by News under Astronomy, Atheism, Design inference, Intelligent Design |
Science historian Michael Flannery offers a vid link below. He notes, Two things are important to bear in mind: first, nothing in Hoyle’s rejection bears upon a teleological universe (Hoyle’s steady state can–and did–coexist with a purposeful and intelligently guided universe); and second, Hoyle’s rejection of the big bang still allows him to have very […]
Tim Maudlin: Defending a “homey and unfashionable ” view of time
| May 17, 2017 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Design inference, Intelligent Design, News |
From George Musser at Nautilus: It has a built-in arrow. It is fundamental rather than derived from some deeper reality. Change is real, as opposed to an illusion or an artifact of perspective. The laws of physics act within time to generate each moment. Mixing mathematics, physics and philosophy, Maudlin bats away the reasons that […]
The Antikythera Mechanism and the Design Inference
| May 17, 2017 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Design inference |
Today’s Google Doodle honors the Antikythera mechanism discovered in 1901 from the Antikythera shipwreck. This remarkable object has been the subject of intense study for more than a century, with various theories about its precise origin and construction still being put forward. Debates have played out about when it was constructed, by whom it was […]
Could a signature of specified complexity help us find alien life?
| May 3, 2017 | Posted by News under Design inference, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, News |
From Bob Holmes at New Scientist: How can we search for life on other planets when we don’t know what it might look like? One chemist thinks he has found an easy answer: just look for sophisticated molecular structures, no matter what they’re made of. The strategy could provide a simple way for upcoming space […]
Design Disquisitions: A Dialogue Between Peter S. Williams & Denis Alexander
| April 23, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Christian Darwinism, Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Design inference, Food for thought, ID, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Philosophy |
FFT: TJG ponders the design inference- objecting mindset
. . . through a case in point: >>tjguyApril 12, 2017 at 2:28 am rvb8 @2 Thank god (heh:), the obvious has been consigned to the rubbish bin of understanding, and we now prefer evidence, experimentation, and the unobvious, to the vacuous, empty, ‘obvious’. What is the problem with this way of thinking? He just […]
Cells turned into “complex biocomputers”?
| March 29, 2017 | Posted by News under Design inference, News |
From BeauHD at Slashdot: Computer hardware is getting a softer side. A research team has come up with a way of genetically engineering the DNA of mammalian cells to carry out complex computations, in effect turning the cells into biocomputers. The group hasn’t put those modified cells to work in useful ways yet, but down […]
Discovery of 7 times higher complexity of protein folding!
| March 5, 2017 | Posted by DLH under Biophysics, Cell biology, Design inference, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Proteome |
Can protein folding complexity be formed by stochastic processes? With 14 intermediate steps? JILA Team Discovers Many New Twists in Protein Folding Biophysicists at JILA have measured protein folding in more detail than ever before, revealing behavior that is surprisingly more complex than previously known. . . . They fold into three-dimensional shapes that determine […]
Kingdom of Speech: But is Everett wrong about Piraha?
| March 4, 2017 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design, language |
Noel Rude, a specialist in native American languages Nez Perce, Sahaptin, Klamath, wrote to offer some thoughts on Tom Wolfe’s takedown of Noam Chomsky’s language theories in The Kingdom of Speech. Chomsky’s theories dominated linguistics for decades. His progressive politics, which were, strictly speaking, irrelevant to his work are often considered to play a role in […]
Researchers: Pre-mammalian reptile evolved venom 100 million years before snakes
| March 3, 2017 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, Design inference, Intelligent Design, stasis |
From ScienceDaily: Euchambersia was a dog-sized pre-mammalian reptile living 260 million years ago in a deadly South African environment: Living in the Karoo, near Colesberg in South Africa, the Euchambersia developed a deep and circular fossa, just behind its canine teeth in the upper jaw, in which a deadly venomous cocktail was produced, and delivered directly […]
Now not 7 but 47 mRNA start codons?!
| March 1, 2017 | Posted by DLH under 'Junk DNA', Cell biology, Design inference, Genomics, Intelligent Design, Proteome |
“The grammar of DNA might be even more sophisticated than we imagined . . .It could be that all codons could be start codons”
