Category: Irreducible Complexity
What is the term “surprisingly complex” doing in science PRs about life forms these days?
| October 5, 2017 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
From ScienceDaily: Cell signals that trigger wound healing are surprisingly complex The researchers were testing two prevailing hypotheses for the wound-response trigger. One is that damaged and dying cells release proteins into the extracellular fluid which surrounding cells sense, causing them to boost their internal calcium levels. This increased calcium concentration, in turn, triggers their […]
New paper: A Complex Lens for a Complex Eye
| September 25, 2017 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Abstract: A key innovation for high resolution eyes is a sophisticated lens that precisely focuses light onto photoreceptors. The eyes of holometabolous larvae range from very simple eyes that merely detect light to eyes that are capable of high spatial resolution. Particularly interesting are the bifocal lenses of Thermonectus marmoratus larvae, which differentially focus light […]
Design Disquisitions-The Evolution of a Protein Transport Machine: Fazale Rana on Irreducible Complexity
| September 21, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Cell biology, Darwinism, Irreducible Complexity |
Michael Behe, Revolutionary, documentary now free online
| September 12, 2017 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Here. As we know, random changes and undirected natural processes routinely succeed in assembling functional equipment for a range of uses. Wait…it doesn’t work that way? The Revolutionary Behe website, at http://revolutionarybehe.com/, features more information about Dr. Behe’s research, other molecular machines, and evidence for intelligent design, and the stories of revolutionary scientists changing the […]
How can we measure specified complexity?
| August 10, 2017 | Posted by News under Complex Specified Information, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
A friend asked about this common intelligent design concept. Specified complexity, also called complex specified information (CSI): Life shows evidence of complex, aperiodic, and specified information in its key functional macromolecules, and the only other example we know of such function-specifying complex information are artifacts designed by intelligent agents. A chance origin of life would exceed […]
Minnich and the Materialism
| June 12, 2017 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Naturalism |
Denyse recently linked to a presentation by Scott Minnich regarding the bacterial flagellum. Minnich is probably among the dozen or so leading experts in the world on the bacterial flagellum. Much of the information in his presentation will be familiar to followers of the issues, but a few points bear further examination. First a couple […]
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 […]
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 |
Flagellum: Nature, it turns out, is an engineer
| April 17, 2017 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity |
From ScienceDaily: How nature engineered the original rotary motor The bacterial flagellum is one of nature’s smallest motors, rotating at up to 60,000 revolutions per minute. To function properly and propel the bacterium, the flagellum requires all of its components to fit together to exacting measurements. In a study published in Science, University of Utah […]
Laszlo Bencze: “Sculpting” of life forms is an accident, of course
| April 9, 2017 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Naturalism |
From a review by Jonathan Rosen of two books about owls at the Wall Street Journal: As both books detail, the anthropomorphic effect of the facial disc [of the owl] is an accident of evolution that has sculpted owl faces into satellite dishes that direct sound waves to their ears. (paywall) Our philosopher friend Laszlo […]
GP on the Origin of Body Plans [OoBP] challenge
. . . here (at 194) in his amazing engineering thread as he responds to Dionisio: >>Dionisio: Thank you for summarizing that interesting discussion. I will summarize it even more. 1) Nobody knows how morphogenesis is controlled and guided. 2) Moran is no exception to that. 3) “Experts” are no exception to that. 4) However, […]
Design Disquisitions: Jeffrey Koperski on Two Bad and Two Good Ways to Attack ID (Part 2): Two ‘Good’ Ways
| March 20, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Convergent evolution, Darwinism, ID, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Natural selection, Naturalism, Peer review, Philosophy, Probability, Science, theistic evolution |
Part two of my series looking at Jeffrey Koperski’s paper ‘Two Bad Ways to Attack Intelligent Design and Two Good Ones’ is now up on my blog. This one is quite in depth, but a couple of interesting issues come up along the way. I examine the concept of soft and hard anomalies in scientific […]
Design Disquisitions: Critic’s Corner-Kenneth Miller
| February 12, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Cell biology, Darwinism, Evolution, ID, Irreducible Complexity, Natural selection |
This week’s post at Design Disquisitions is the first in a series of articles entitled ‘Critic’s Corner’ where I focus on a critic of ID. The main purpose of these posts is to document their work relevant to ID and also to document the direct responses to the particular critic in question, by those sympathetic to […]
How ID theorist Michael Behe forced Darwin’s faithful to start talking nonsense
| January 20, 2017 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Obviously, for all to see. A sentence appears in a paywalled article in a peer-reviewed publication (Journal of Molecular Evolution): Since the subject of cellular emergence of life is unusually complicated (we avoid the term ‘complex’ because of its association with ‘biocomplexity’ or ‘irreducible complexity’), it is unlikely that any overall theory of life’s nature, […]
Eric Metaxas on Michael Behe, Revolutionary
| November 15, 2016 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
Commentator Metaxas’s Breakpoint commentary discusses ID theorist and biochemist Michael Behe’s 1996 book, Darwin’s Black Box, and the new DI video, Revolutionary, here: To make Behe’s meticulous arguments more accessible to the public, the folks at the Discovery Institute have just produced a documentary summarizing “Darwin’s Black Box.” It’s called “Revolutionary,” a tribute to the fact […]
Leaf-tailed gecko looks like whatever it needs to
| September 9, 2016 | Posted by News under Evolution, Irreducible Complexity, News |
Okay, dead leaves: See also: A moth’s wings feature two flies picking at a pile of bird dropping. It should be harder to be a Darwinist than our culture makes it. Follow UD News at Twitter!
Complexity of bacterial flagellum studied
| September 8, 2016 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
From ScienceDaily: A team of Japanese researchers led by Homma’s laboratory of Nagoya University have now purified the stator protein MotA from a bacterium found in hot springs (Aquifex aeolicus) and analyzed its three-dimensional structure using electron microscopy mainly in cooperation with Namba’s laboratory of Osaka University. They found that it can form a structure […]
Mike Behe Webinar now at YouTube
| May 9, 2016 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Biochemist Dr. Michael Behe speaks to the Apologetics Academy about the biochemical evidence for design. Behe is author of Darwin’s Black Box and Edge of Evolution Follow UD News at Twitter!
“Perfect Fidelity at Minimum Time”
| April 14, 2016 | Posted by PaV under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, Irreducible Complexity |
For the delight of programmers here at UD, I include this post. Over at the “Reference Frame,” a blog by Lubos Motl, string theorist, and physicist extraordinaire, he has this post on a new game for “gamers” calledQuantum Moves. I don’t have time for any in-depth comment; however, for the programmers among us, here is […]
“Incredible ”bacterial rotors, varying torques, imaged
| March 16, 2016 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
From ScienceDaily: By looking at distantly related bacteria from different branches of the evolutionary tree, the team speculate that the ability to alter torque in this way may have evolved up to two billion years ago. “Entire branches of the bacterial family tree have evolved motors with different torques, leading to a diversity of species […]
