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Irreducible Complexity

Your Designed Body: Engineering Hurdles

The body's design: "There remains no plausible, causally adequate hypotheses for how any series of accidents, no matter how lucky and no matter how much time is given, could accomplish such things." Read More ›

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. Read More ›

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." Read More ›

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." Read More ›

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. Read More ›

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. Read More ›

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. Read More ›

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. Read More ›

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. Read More ›

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. Read More ›

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? Read More ›