“Small charges carried by individual insects can add up, a study finds, with larger swarms generating substantial electrical fields.”
Irreducible Complexity
Otangelo Grasso on the difficulties of reasoning with atheists
Evidence doesn’t seem to matter much.
At Phys.org: The thinking undead: How dormant bacteria calculate their return to life
This fascinating research presents yet another remarkable example of biochemical complexity with a functionality dependent upon environmental sensing, signal evaluation, operational feedback, managing stored resources, and survivability–all within a supposedly inert “spore.” I’ll call that evidence of intelligent design.
At Evolution News: Michael Behe in World Magazine — “Game Over” for Darwinism
“…the game is over for Darwinian evolutionary theory: an unguided evolutionary explanation for what Behe calls irreducibly complex structures, including ATP synthase, will not be found.”
At Phys.org: To keep up with evolving prey, rattlesnakes tap genetically diverse venom toolbox
University of Colorado at Boulder: “This research overturns decades of thought on what factors shape venom gene evolution and venom variation, and sheds new light on why developing effective antivenom treatments for snakebites remains so challenging.”
At Evolution News: From Darwinists, a Shift in Tone on Nanomachines
Unfortunately for Darwinists, irreducible complexity raises real doubts about Darwinism in people’s minds. Rising to the challenge, Darwinists are doing what must be done to control the damage.
TV nite: Media to watch — or watch for
Includes: Steve Meyer’s The Return of the God Hypothesis is to be made into a movie.
Asked at Evolution News: How much can evolution really accomplish?
Anderson: “The deeply held assumption of nearly all evolutionists is that evolution can do everything. After all, we’re here aren’t we! So there is little point in even asking the question.” Actually, in religious circles, if anyone treated their sect’s creed the way Darwinians have treated evolution, they would be regarded as a cult.
Michael Behe talks engineering and information theory on Finding the Truth
Show notes: how the latest discoveries reconfirm that Irreducible Complexity marks the death of the explanatory power of the Darwinian mechanism and other non-guided naturalistic mechanisms of the extended evolutionary modern synthesis.
Part 2 of New introduction to intelligent design: Recognizing Design Part 1
John and Sandy Palmer: Part 2 applies the core concepts of irreducible complexity and functional coherence to one of the most important functions in each cell – energy production.
Scientists’ reaction to ever more of the cell’s complexity in its own environment
At Nature: “I was so overwhelmed by the beauty and the complexity that in the evenings I would just watch them like I would watch a documentary,” recalls Kukulski, a biochemist at the University of Bern, Switzerland.” No wonder panpsychism is catching on, among those who are forbidden to think in terms of design.
At Bio-Complexity: An Engineering Perspective on the Bacterial Flagellum: Part 3 – Observations
Schulz: This third paper (Part 3) concludes the three-part study with original observations. The observations include an ontology of the exceedingly specific protein binding relationships in the flagellum. … Finally, it is suggested that a motility organelle of this scope and scale seems profoundly unlikely to naturally evolve in the absence of foresight and mindful intent.
At Mind Matters News: Life is so wonderfully finely tuned that it’s frightening
A mathematician who uses statistical methods to model the fine tuning of molecular machines and systems in cells reflects…
Bacterial flagellum: Engineering design constraints
The flagellum is a good example of what doesn’t work in purely naturalist explanations. None of it happened by chance unless you think masses of information can just suddenly pop into existence by chance. Wouldn’t that be magic? Miracle?
Irreducible complexity: Cilium edition
Of course, Darwinism is dead. It is the Darwin profs and the institutional structure that supports them who are very much alive.