Imagine building ITER with the additional engineering demand that it not only function to produce fusion energy, but that it contain the machinery to be able to reproduce itself Imagine building ITER with the additional engineering demand that it not only function to produce fusion energy, but that it contain the machinery to be able to reproduce itself multiple times over!
Intelligent Design
At Phys.org: Anatomy of a superorganism: Ant pupae secrete fluid as ‘milk’ to nurture young larvae
Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have discovered a previously unknown social interaction that unites the colony, linking ants across developmental stages: adults, larvae, and pupae (an immobile stage, not unlike Read More…
At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy Is the “Mother of all Chicken-and-Egg Problems”
David Klinghoffer writes: Here’s a really devilish problem to pose to your favorite friend, teacher, or relative who’s a Darwinist true believer. As Your Designed Body co-author Steve Laufmann observes, the relationship between an embryo and its mother is a relationship between unequals. The embryo’s systems are not yet complete so it depends on its mother for Read More…
From Evolution News: Prigogine’s Self-Organization vs. Specified Biological Complexity
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.
At Big Think: Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement
As a physicist whose research involved computational nano-electronics, for which the entire physical schema relied upon quantum mechanical transport of electrons through molecular structures, it would seem to be a “no-brainer” that quantum processes (including entanglement) are prevalent in brain activity.
At Evolution News: Intelligent Design and Man’s Free Will
C. S. Lewis: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
According to sources: Sam Harris has deleted his Twitter account
Here: “The move comes after the Waking Up podcast host was slammed for stating that he hated Trump to such an extent that he wouldn’t have cared if Hunter Biden “had the corpses of children in his basement” in the lead up to the 2020 election.” Readers may better remember Harris as a prominent new Read More…
At Reasons.org: More Evidence for a Beautiful Universe
Burov and Burov: “The laws of nature are fine‐tuned not only with
respect to the anthropic principle but to be discoverable as well.”
“Every Cell Comes from a Preexistent Cell”
C. S. Lewis: “Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?”
At Evolution News: An Argument from C. S. Lewis for Intelligent Design
“ccording to Lewis in these essays, “universal evolutionism” has schooled us to think that in nature complicated functional things naturally arise from cruder and less complicated things.”
At Sci News: Ancient Retroviruses Make Up 8% of Human Genome, Researchers Say
“Whether the genetic remnants of human endogenous retroviruses can cause disease in people is still under study.”
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 Science Daily: Early planetary migration can explain missing planets
“Model accounts for scarcity of planets with masses between super-Earths and mini-NeptunesComputer simulations by Rice University scientists and their collaborators are the first to integrate a model of planet formation and evolution that explains two puzzling observations of exoplanets orbiting distant stars: the rarity of worlds about 1.8 times larger than Earth and the near-identical size of adjacent planets in hundreds of planetary systems.
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At Evolution News: William Dembski Offers an Updated Edition of an Intelligent Design Classic
“Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years…”
Elaborated Tunnel Architectures in Enzyme Systems point to a designed setup
Elaborated Tunnel Architectures in Enzyme Systems point to a designed setup https://reasonandscience.catsboard.com/t2062-proteins-how-they-provide-striking-evidence-of-design#9672 RNA and DNA belong to the four basic building blocks of life. They are complex macromolecules made of three constituents: the base, the backbone, which is the ribose five-carbon sugar, and phosphate, the moiety which permits DNA polymerization and catenation of monomers, to Read More…