Tag: disorder

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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

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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
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, disorder, entropy, evolutionary theory, God’s Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, interviews, materialist thinkers, materialists, mind, mindless processes, multiverse, natural selection, natural theology, origin of life, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, podcast, scientific discoveries, teleology, YouTube channels}

Brian Miller: The Basic Challenge to Materialist Origin-of-Life Theories

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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“All natural processes tend to create greater disorder (entropy)…The origin of life requires chemicals to go into a state of both high order and high energy.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 29, 2025

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chaos, dancing, death, detour, disorder, eating, energy state, entropy, equilibrium, Eric Hedin, flying, ID the Future, immortality, intelligent design, intelligent designer, jumping, life, naturalism, organisms, physics, running, specified complexity, swimming, water}

The Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 29, 2025

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

We usually think of life as the most natural thing there is — blooming plants, flowing water, the cycles of nature. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Biological Information: New Perspectives, civilization, compensation, Darwinists, disorder, entropy, human intelligence, Mathematical Intelligencer, Moon, multiverse, natural forces, open system, order, physical constants, Physics Essays, probability, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified complexity, sun, tautology, temperature, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, William A. Dembski}

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

_{Granville Sewell
March 1, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Christianity, disorder, entropy, feedback loops, first cell, free energy, information, James Tour, Jeremy England, molecular engines, order, Rice University, Science & Faith podcast, thermodynamics}

Listen: Tour and Miller on the Engines We Can’t Live Without

_{Jonathan Witt
December 14, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

1}

Also in this surprisingly accessible mix — feedback loops, physicist Jeremy England, and much more. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, biological adaptation, disorder, entropy, evolution, Fifth Way, form, ignorance, information, knowledge, medicine, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, quantum physics, Scrabble, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

On Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 5, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Physics

5}

Universal Darwinism is the belief that Darwin’s theory can be applied fruitfully to many scientific disciplines, not just to biology. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, disorder, E. coli, English, evolution, genes, humans, malaria, Michael Behe, natural processes, natural selection, nature, order, Richard Lenski, Spanish, The Edge of Evolution, universe}

Darwinism — Like Every Other Known Natural Process — Devolves

_{Granville Sewell
January 27, 2019

Evolution

2}

Natural selection is not, after all, the one natural process in the universe that can make nature run backward. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 7, 2017

Categories
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, causality, disorder, entropy, final cause, Joseph Carter, nature, New York Times, order, purpose, teleology, University of Georgia}

Does Nature Show Purpose? Reply to a Materialist Philosopher

_{Michael Egnor
August 7, 2017

Philosophy, Physical Sciences

4}

Aristotelian teleology is, as Joseph Carter points out, manifested by order in nature. More precisely, teleology is consistency: natural processes tend to consistent ends. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 9, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, Applied Mathematics Letters, biosphere, Darwin lobby, Darwinian evolution, disorder, Energy, entropy, Granville Sewell, In the Beginning, Isaac Asimov, open system, Peter Urone, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Texas, University of Texas El Paso, William A. Dembski}

Digging Into Granville Sewell’s Peer-Reviewed Paper Challenging Darwinian Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
June 9, 2011

Evolution, Mathematics, Scientific Freedom

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Dr. Sewell is fully aware of the standard objections to the classical version of the second law argument, but his thesis is not the classic unsophisticated version of the argument. Read More ›