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Origin of Biological Information? Nope, Just Its Recycling

Followers of the debate between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution will be familiar with Christoph Adami's example. Read More ›
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Evolution of Biological Information: The Line of Descent

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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Evolution of Biological Information: Maxwell’s Demon

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 ›
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Evolution of Biological Information: The Definition of Information

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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The Prescient Günter Bechly: New Paper Doesn’t Negate the Cambrian Explosion

Let’s consider the fossils the paper identifies as appearing in the Ediacaran but that belong to phyla previously known to appear first in the Cambrian. Read More ›
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In Evolution, Explaining vs. Explaining Away: Rafting Monkeys and More

Says Casey Luskin, "If you're an evolutionist, you have a serious problem. Where do South American monkeys come from?" Read More ›
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Your Body’s Secrets, Revealed in a New Series and a Companion Book

It may seem like a morbid thought, pondering the billions of ways something in your body could “go wrong,” fatally, and then “you’re dead.” Read More ›
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Physicist Eric Hedin: Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life

I begin a two-part conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin, a physicist and author who’s been asking bold questions about the hidden patterns of life. Read More ›
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Celebrate Darwin Day, and Darwin’s Broken Theory!

Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein summed up this way: “[In my opinion,] the mainstream Darwinists are telling a kind of lie about how much we know." Read More ›
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Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion

In three papers, scientists babble about irrelevant details but ignore the main question: the origin of new genetic information for new body plans and organs. Read More ›

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