Tag: building blocks

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological systems, building blocks, designed reality, finite universe, ID the Future, improbability, information, irreducible intelligence, Law of Conservation of Information, materialist process, mathematicians, matter, philosophers, podcast, probability amplifier, selection process, William Dembski}

Irreducible Intelligence: The Ultimate Origin of Biological Information

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The more an environment is tuned to amplify probability, the more improbable that environment becomes, requiring further explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 13, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, building blocks, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, chemical evolution, decomposition, Edward Peltzer, homochirality, hydrolysis, ID the Future, James Tour, meteorites, organic chemistry, origin of life, origin-of-life research, racemic mixtures, tar}

Expert: Without Intelligence, Organic Chemistry Leads to Degradation, Not Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 13, 2026

Chemistry, Origin of Life

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While amino acids can be produced in experiments or found on meteorites, they are often consumed by side reactions that create non-living tar. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, advice, Alexander Oparin, amino acids, Baltimore, biopolymers, building blocks, chemistry, DNA, education, extraterrestrial life, geology, Harold Urey, homochirality, hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, Mars, ocean chemistry, organic chemistry, origin of life, prebiotic conditions, proteins, public school, RNA, RNA world, Roman Catholicism, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, solar system, Stanley Miller, sugars, theistic evolution, UC San Diego, University of Chicago, University of Heidelberg}

Interview with Edward Peltzer on the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
August 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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A student of Stanley Miller and Jeffrey Bada explains the failure of materialistic origin-of-life scenarios. Read More ›

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Date
August 7, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biopolymers, building blocks, Darwinian evolution, DNA, evolution, intelligent design, molecules, polymerization, RNA}

Biopolymers: Change One Word to Eliminate the Contradiction

_{Science & Culture
August 7, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

The living state itself depends on the prior existence of biopolymers (such as RNA and DNA) which were themselves not produced by abiotic processes. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 16, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, BioCosmos, biomolecules, building blocks, cells, diffusion, intelligent agent, intelligent design, James Tour, nucleotides, origin of life, peptide bond, physics, proteins, Rice University, RNA, thermodynamics, water}

New Article from James Tour Undermines a Pillar of Origin-of-Life Theories

_{Brian Miller
July 16, 2025

Biochemistry, Origin of Life

5}

Proteins and RNA degrade at rates that render their spontaneous formation under natural, undirected conditions highly implausible. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, anticipation, August Weismann, Bible, biosphere, building blocks, causation, Chance and Necessity, cognition, Design Inference, DNA, electromagnetism, Ferrari, final cause, flowering plants, Francis Crick, grizzly bear, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, natural selection, natural theology, necessity, nectar, pollinators, purpose, science of purpose, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, tuna, William A. Dembski, wolf}

Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 31, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, barcoding, biomolecules, building blocks, Colorado State University, cryptography, cryptology, Darwinism, DNA, Douglas Axe, information, Intelligent Design in Action, junk DNA, pseudogenes, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Scientist, uncertainty, Undeniable (book), William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Intelligent Design in Action: DNA Cryptography

_{David Coppedge
February 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Cryptography itself is an example of ID in action within the sciences. How much more when it involves coded genetic information? Read More ›

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Author
Otangelo Grasso

Date
December 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Brian Miller, building blocks, calculations, chance, jackpot, James Tour, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Long Story Short, metabolism, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Phys.org, Powerball, proteins, proteome, protocells, Quanta Magazine, Rice University, RNA world, self-organization, University of North Carolina}

Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life

_{Otangelo Grasso
December 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

11}

If researchers really were making progress, wouldn’t that mean they would be converging on the same truth? Yet they are not. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, building blocks, evolution, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, ontogenetic information, podcast, Tom Woodward}

Jonathan Wells on Toppling Evolution’s Icons

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 28, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Wells also explains a study of his that finds that embryo development requires ontogenetic information that can’t arise by neo-Darwinian mechanisms. Read More ›

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Author
Carl Linnaeus

Date
January 24, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, adenine, building blocks, cytosine, DNA, Evolution News, guanine, living systems, magnetic field, nucleobases, nucleotides, prebiotic conditions, proteins, ribose, RNA, sugar, thymine, uracil, UV light}

Sunlight on the Puzzle of Prebiotic RNA?

_{Carl Linnaeus
January 24, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In two previous articles, I have argued against the plausibility of generating biologically relevant polymers (proteins, RNA, and DNA) in a prebiotic world. Read More ›