Tag: Assembly Theory

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, Assembly Theory, BIO-Complexity, Charles Darwin, combustion chamber, Conservation of Information, disorder, entropy, formational order, heat energy, information, Law of Increasing Functional Information, Leroy Cronin, living things, monographs, order, patent offices, Paul Davies, perpetual motion machines, physical systems, piston, prime matter, Robert Hazen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, shmoo, Stuart Kauffman, The Law of Conservation of Information, thermal equilibrium, thermal order, work}

Nature’s Missing Law of Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

6}

Conservation of information is not just an idea or concept that sits blithely in a world of mathematical abstraction. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Andrew Ellington, Assembly Theory, combinatorial space, homochirality, Lee Cronin, Lego blocks, machines, organic molecules, Paul Davies, scientists}

Is Assembling Life Like Assembling LEGOs?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 20, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

4}

Unfortunately, Sara Walker provides no clue as to what process does all the “constraining,” “funneling,” and “scaffolding.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, assemblages, Assembly Theory, complex systems, complexity, designers, engineers, Harvard Business School, innovation, Lee Cronin, MIT Press, modularity}

Responding to Lee Cronin: A Modular Theory of Assembly

_{William A. Dembski
July 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Despite its fatal defects, Assembly Theory does raise the prospect of what a successful theory of assembly might look like. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 21, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alcohol, Assembly Theory, challenge, Craig Venter, drinking, Harvard University, Hector Zenil, hype, James Tour, King’s College London, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Lee Cronin, LUCA, natural processes, negligence, Rice University, scientific community, tweeting, University of Glasgow}

James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin to Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory

_{Brian Miller
March 21, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

After Tour publicly quoted Cronin’s assessment of the field, Cronin responded by claiming he was speaking “tongue-in-cheek.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 11, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Assembly Theory, Brian Miller, carbohydrates, Dave Farina, David Klinghoffer, debates, Discovery Institute, early Earth, enzymes, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, James Tour, Lee Cronin, lipids, nucleotides, polynucleotides, polypeptides, polysaccharides, Professor Dave, Rice University, RNA, roundtable, side chains, specified information, University of Glasgow}

Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard

_{Casey Luskin
January 11, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

8}

Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 21, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Assembly Theory, BioCosmos Africa, Biomimetics, CELS, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Discovery Institute, Harvard University, intelligent design, James Tour, Latin America, Lee Cronin, Princeton University, Rice Broocks, Rice University, Sergiu Klainerman, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Joe Rogan Experience, U.C. Berkeley, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

An Outstanding Year for Intelligent Design

_{Brian Miller
December 21, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

I saw on multiple occasions the impact the truth about design can make in individual lives. Recently at U.C. Berkeley, I spoke about the evidence for a Creator. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Assembly Theory, biological complexity, biological information, biosignatures, functional information, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, intelligent design, James Tour, Lee Cronin, materialist philosophies, mathematical models, NASA, natural selection, simulations, Steven Benner, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski}

Cronin-Tour at Harvard: How Researchers Smuggle Design into Their Theories

_{Brian Miller
December 12, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

Cronin presented his Assembly Theory as a framework for understanding life’s origin. I believe he is correct but not in the way he intends. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Assembly Theory, chemical evolution, Clockwork, complexity, consciousness, Elon Musk, fallacy, Harvard University, Hector Zenil, information theory, intelligent design, James Tour, Justin Brierley, Lee Cronin, materialism, methodological naturalism, molecular biology, naturalism, Nature (journal), ontology, Oxford University, phase transition, quantum entanglement, Reductionism, Rice University, saltation, scientific method, theoretical physics, Unbelievable, worldview}

A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate

_{Günter Bechly
December 6, 2023

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Origin of Life

7}

Under the theory of an unguided process of chemical and biological evolution, should a threshold of complexity, clearly identifying life, be expected? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Assembly Theory, courage, creationism, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, Harvard University, intelligent design, James Tour, Lee Cronin, natural selection, roundtable, scientists, universe, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

Watch It Now: Tour and Cronin at Harvard

_{David Klinghoffer
December 5, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

Above all, major props to Lee Cronin for showing up at all. That took courage. He earns my admiration. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Assembly Theory, Berra's Blunder, Caltech, Cassini mission, chemical evolution, Cornell University, Darwin’s genie, Doubts About Darwin, evolution, Evolution News, human technology, Jonathan Lunine, laws of nature, Lee Cronin, multicellularity, On the Origin of Species, Robert Hazen, selection, tautology, Thomas Woodward, Titan, Tova Forman, University of Glasgow}

Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific; Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve

_{David Coppedge
October 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Desperate to justify their worldview as legitimate, some Darwinians are making up new “laws of nature” to appear smiling inside the big tent of science. Read More ›