Bacteria demonstrate intra-species communication that is species specific using a partner with a communication molecule. Bacteria are also “multilingual” with a generic trade language for interspecies communication. Bacteria control tasks by signal producing and receiving receptors with a signal carrier. The tasks bacteria conduct depend on the concentration they sense of self bacteria versus generic species concentration. e.g. Bacteria control pathogenicity with quorum sensing. The detailed (small) sRNA required for these control mechanisms is now beginning to be desciphered. See below. Question:
Did bacteria “invent” their communication and control methods via evolutionary stochastic processes?
Or do these constitute Complex Specified Information and thus evidence design? Read More ›

Acclaimed author John Jeremiah Sullivan has recently written an article for Lapham’s Quarterly (Spring 2013), arguing that human beings stand in a psychological continuum with other animals. Sullivan’s article, which is appropriately titled, One of us, reverently concludes that the human mind is but one of a multitude of minds on the animal spectrum: “The animal kingdom is symphonic with mental activity, and of its millions of wavelengths, we’re born able to understand the minutest sliver… This is what the study of animal consciousness can teach us, finally – that we possess an animal consciousness.” The publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species is depicted in the article as the watershed event in history that opened our eyes to this Read More ›