Author: Winston Ewert

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Medicine
Tagged
, __featured3, antiviral drugs, Christoph Adami, entropy, environment, evolution, genome, higher-order correlations, HIV, HIV evolution, information, inhibitor, Maxwell’s demon, protease, resistance, sequence entropy, The Evolution of Biological Information, treatment protocols, variability}

Evolution of Biological Information: HIV Evolution

_{Winston Ewert
July 29, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Medicine

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What Christoph Adami’s results actually show is that when HIV is subjected to the protease inhibitors, the sequence variability increases. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, ancestral genes, animals, arthropods, bacteria, biological descent, biological information, bony vertebrates, chordates, Christoph Adami, COX2, cytochrome c oxidase subunit II, entropy, eukaryotes, evolution, fish, homeobox, homeodomain, information, lineages, mammals, Maxwell’s demon, proteins, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Evolution of Biological Information: The Line of Descent

_{Winston Ewert
July 28, 2026

Evolution, Genetics

3}

In the end, Christoph Adami’s method has not shown anything about the entropy or information content of ancestral sequences. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 21, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, Christoph Adami, complex molecular structures, damage, Darwin Devolves, Energy, evolution, genome, increase of information law, information, loss, Maxwell’s demon, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, The Evolution of Biological Information, William F. Basener}

Evolution of Biological Information: Maxwell’s Demon

_{Winston Ewert
July 21, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Maxwell’s demon is a hypothetical entity that can increase the energy in a compartment by choosing to admit or exclude incoming particles based on speed. Read More ›

A wet concrete driveway with a slight slope and a reflecting surface, bordered by a lush green lawn and mature shrubbery.

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 17, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, brains, Christoph Adami, Claude Shannon, complexity, driveway, election results, evolution, genomes, hemoglobin, historical contingency, historical events, information, intelligent design, malaria, mutation, mutual information, nature, polling, Princeton University Press, proteins, rain, Records, sickle cell anemia, The Evolution of Biological Information, viruses, weather, weather forecast}

Evolution of Biological Information: The Definition of Information

_{Winston Ewert
July 17, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Whether the driveway is wet provides information about whether it rained. If the driveway is dry, it certainly has not rained. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, agency, algorithmic logic units, avida, Brain Potter, Brian Arthur, circuits, combinations, comparators, complex circuits, components, computer simulation, decoders, digital logic circuits, economists, encoders, evolution, functionality, functions, multiplexers, Nature (journal), needs, population counters, Richard Lenski, Robert Pennock, stepping stones, technology}

Technological Evolution: Accidentally Demonstrating the Limits of Evolution

_{Winston Ewert
July 16, 2026

Evolution, Technology

4}

While economist Brian Arthur models the development of technology, he refers to it as the “evolution” of technology. Read More ›

How microservices enhance application modularity

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Technology
Tagged
, biological systems, biology, Brain Potter, Brian Arthur, combinations, Construction Physics, economists, engineering, evolutionary theory, functionality, genes, genetic recombination, horizontal gene transfer, information, intelligent design, modularity, mutations, recombination, sexual reproduction, subcomponents, technology}

Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution

_{Winston Ewert
July 15, 2026

Biology, Engineering, Technology

3}

The fundamental problem with this analysis is that sexual reproduction does not make anything modular. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 19, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, air, Ambrose, Aristotle, Basil of Caesarea, Bible, Biblical texts, cellulose, Christianity, Chrysostom, classical science, demiurge, duck, earth, elements, Ephrem the Syrian, fire, form, Genesis, house, John Calvin, Justin Martyr, Martin Luther, matter, metal, metaphysics, nuclear reactions, Periodic Table, philosophy, pipes, plastic, Plato, rabbit, radioactive decay, scientific ideas, Septuagint, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tertullian, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, Timaeus, water, wires, Wisdom of Solomon, wood}

Can Formless Matter Exist? A Pitfall in Reading Biblical Texts

_{Winston Ewert
March 19, 2026

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Physics

9}

The solution is to go back to the source and follow the text to see what it actually says. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 12, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, almightiness, Aquinas, Big Bang, bodily fluids, bread, Christian Church, Christianity, Chrysostom, conservation of matter, early church, entropy, galaxies, heavens, heretics, immutability, modern science, natural processes, Origen, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, theology, theory of relativity, universe}

Is Matter Conserved? Ancient and Modern Views

_{Winston Ewert
March 12, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science

7}

Christians accepted that the principle, nothing comes from nothing, was true for processes in nature. God, however, was not bound by this limitation. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, aether, air, Aristotle, Bible, Center for Science and Culture, change, circular movement, cosmologists, creation, dark energy, dark matter, destruction, earth, elements, ethers, fire, galaxies, heavens, heavy elements, immutability, light elements, linear movement, modern science, natural forces, night, outer space, pace, physics, rotation, smoke, speed, stars, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, water, Winston Ewert}

Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

_{Winston Ewert
March 11, 2026

History of Science, Philosophy, Physics

5}

Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, augustine, Basil Willey, Christianity, Church Fathers, computer scientists, Copernican Revolution, creationists, Darwinian evolution, evolution, faith and science, historians, intelligent design, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common ancestry, Winston Ewert}

What’s Bothering Augustine?

_{Winston Ewert
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

7}

I began to understand that there was a rich history of the interaction between the Church and premodern science, but not one that is widely known. Read More ›