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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, accidents, animal breeding, Aristotle, bats, bootstraps, chaos, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, entropy, evolution, farmer, functional complexity, humans, intelligent design, microbes, natural selection, pandemic, PZ Myers, random variation, teleology}

Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design: Case of the Coronavirus

_{Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Undirected natural selection can’t lift itself by its own bootstraps — accidents can’t happen in nature except in a sea of design. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, ancient Earth, brian, Center for Science and Culture, complex systems, Discovery Institute Press, Duke University, emergence, entropy, equilibrium, intelligent agency, MIT, molecules, natural engines, second of law thermodynamics, The Mystery Life’s Origin}

Thermodynamic Challenges to the Origin of Life

_{Brian Miller
March 27, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Spontaneous natural processes always tend toward states of greater entropy, lower energy, or both. Read More ›

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Date
February 5, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Adam Marcus, Applied Mathematics Letters, autism, bioRxiv, compensation argument, coronavirus, Dilbert, Elsevier, entropy, evolution, Evolution News, Granville Sewell, India, intelligent design, Ivan Oransky, junk science, Nautilus, peer review, Physics Essays, Retraction Watch, Scott Adams, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Why Evolution Is Different}

Retraction Watch Guys Hallucinate “Intelligent Design” Yet Again

_{Science and Culture
February 5, 2020

Intelligent Design

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A helpful formulation comes from podcaster Scott Adams, of “Dilbert” fame, who comments entertainingly on the political scene. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, bootstrap, Brian Miller, chemicals, Darwinian evolution, En Arche Foundation, Energy, English, entropy, life, materialism, mutations, natural selection, organism, Polish, rescue helicopter}

Physicist Brian Miller: Two Conundrums for Strictly Materialist Views of Biology

_{David Klinghoffer
January 13, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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“Nothing in nature will ever simultaneously go to both low entropy and high energy at the same time.” Read More ›

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Date
December 20, 2019

Categories
Chemistry
Earth Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, astrobiology, ATP, bacteria, biomineralization, carbon, chemical energy, Chile, China, diet, DNA replication, Earth’s crust, elements, Energy, entropy, evolution, genetic information, gun, human body, industry, kinetic energy, metal, molecular machines, molybdenum, motility, nitrogen, PNAS, proteins, steel, sulfur, United States}

Molybdenum Is Stored in Cells by a Powered Piercing Machine

_{Science and Culture
December 20, 2019

Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Intelligent Design

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The metal element 42, molybdenum, is needed in the body in extremely small but vital amounts for enzymes to work properly. Read More ›

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Date
December 9, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, agnosticism, biological origins, Darwinism, David Berlinski, entropy, Europe, evolution, Human Nature (book), ID the Future, Jews, patriotism, Peter Robinson, podcast, science, Second Law of Thermodynamics, theism, Uncommon Knowledge}

David Berlinski on Europe, Entropy, Agnosticism

_{Science and Culture
December 9, 2019

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Berlinski tempts Peter Robinson to ask him whether he still considers himself an agnostic. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
May 22, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Apple iPhones, atoms, cars, civilization, compensation argument, computers, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, earth, entropy, intelligence, intelligent design, libraries, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, mutations, natural selection, nuclear power plants, Physics Essays, Second Law of Thermodynamics, tornado, unintelligent forces, Universal Darwinism}

Two Schemes to Defeat the Second Law

_{Granville Sewell
May 22, 2019

Physical Sciences, Physics

5}

I also have a scheme that I believe can defeat the generalized second law. My scheme is called “intelligence.” 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

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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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Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, analogy, architecture, Boltzmann brain, codons, Darwinian evolution, entropy, Eugene Koonin, hopeful monster, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, letters, Michael Behe, multicellularity, multiverse, natural selection, nucleotides, PNAS, proteome, semantic information, The Logic of Chance, words}

Proteome Is Analogous to Language

_{Science and Culture
March 14, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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A paper likens the proteome to a language with a “quasi-universal grammar” possessing the minimum complexity necessary to function as a cell. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Being as Communion, blind search, Brian Miller, causation, Claude Shannon, Conservation of Information, David Snoke, David Wolpert, entropy, Eric Anderson, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Great Barrier Reef, information, information theory, Interface Focus, materialism, Michael Keas, No Free Lunch theorems, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Royal Society, Santa Fe Institute, semantic information, Shannon information, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski, William Macready}

Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

_{Science and Culture
December 10, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics. Read More ›