Even if everything is all pristine and honest with climate science today, the settled habit of simply censoring opposing views inevitably corrupts. Over time it corrupts absolutely. Darwinism is paying the price even now for that kind of thing, if we go by the defensive Darwinblather around the current, sublime embarrassment of de novo genes.
Information
Davies and Walker on Origin of life: Life as information
Walker and Davies, 2013: The manner in which information flows through and between cells and sub-cellular structures is quite unlike anything else observed in nature. If life is more than just complex chemistry, its unique informational management properties may be the crucial indicator of this distinction [13]. Unfortunately, the way that information operates in biology is not easily characterized.
Bill Dembski on the primacy of information for science
The conversation with Fred Skiff, chair of the physics department at the University of Iowa examines why information is the most basic object of study in science and how Conservation of Information naturally leads to the conclusion that intelligence is the ultimate source of information.
Rob Sheldon on whether information can be the missing dark matter
Rob Sheldon: The location of the mass has to be “outside” the galaxy in order to account for the dark matter attraction. How does information occupy empty space? Landauer would have said it couldn’t.
Could information be—at long last—the missing “dark matter”?
One physicist now suggests that this “fifth state” of matter (the other four non-dark states are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma) might be information. But then information must be a physical thing…
Information: How can a totalitarian state be an information society?
China may be the biggest and most sophisticated experiment in history along those lines.
Karsten Pultz: The Information Problem, Part Two
My main postulate is that information is strictly tied to an idea, a product, or a message. I cannot see how it is possible to have information prior to the idea, product, or message because information is an abstract representation of those things. How can an abstract representation exist prior to the phenomenon which it represents?
Predictions, predictions: ID predicts overlapping codes, Darwinism predicts “junk DNA”
The nested hierarchies we find in codes point to an intelligence behind nature.
Karsten Pultz: Why random processes cannot produce information: A new approach to the argument
We don’t get information without the act of choice, a feature that is related only to intelligent agency.
Do Jeffrey Shallit’s writings offer more information than a blank page?
Michael Egnor wonders whether that’s true. But he faces the difficulty of convincing anti-ID mathematician Jeffrey Shallit, that HE, at least, ought to think they do.
Do you remember when IBM Watson (Jeopardy winner) was going to revolutionize medicine?
It seems Watson couldn’t determine which medical information was more meaningful than a lot of data in a given situation.
Pest insect gets plants to transmit false information to other plants
The world of life is probably mostly information, not matter. And what is the source of information?
Researchers build public “library” to help understand photosynthesis
From ScienceDaily: It isn’t easy being green. It takes thousands of genes to build the photosynthetic machinery that plants need to harness sunlight for growth. And yet, researchers don’t know exactly how these genes work. Now a team led by Princeton University researchers has constructed a public “library” to help researchers to find out what Read More…
At Quanta: Cells find “optimal” solutions, not just good ones
What then becomes of “bad design” arguments, like those of Nathan Lents? In a transient world, any solution can only be optimal for a given life, as it must be factored against other lives.
Theorizing information out of a black hole
Not really being able to integrate information with matter and energy surely means it is hard to say whether information could really be destroyed.