Tag: information processing

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 26, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, apologetics, biological complexity, biology, Chinese Room, creationists, function, genotype, information, information processing, intelligent design, John Searle, Marcel Schützenberger, Martin M. Kaplan, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, Paul S. Moorhead, phenotype, semantics, Stanislaw Ulam, The Creation of Life, University of Illinois at Chicago, William Dembski, Wistar Symposium, Young Earth Creationism}

Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

_{William A. Dembski
September 26, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Biology was giving us computer programming and symbolic codes which, by mapping functional structures to functional structures, exhibited a tacit semantics. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, architecture, biological systems, biology, cell boundary, cells, chance events, charge gradients, chemical mixture, chemical reactions, chemical transformations, chemistry, complexity, control, control systems, coordinated manufacturing, coordination, emerging system, Energy, energy management, engineering, environmental sources, equilibrium, experiments, feedback regulation, hydrothermal vents, information, information processing, intentions, life, natural engines, natural processes, organization, origin of life, physical forces, proteins, thermodynamics, undirected natural processes}

Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

_{Brian Miller
September 14, 2026

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, amino acids, cells, cellular metabolism, chemical reactions, chemists, DNA, early Earth, Energy, energy production, failed models, information processing, investigators, mind, nanozymes, nucleotide chains, origin of life, overinterpretation, particles, peptides, photosynthesis, polymerization, Protein World, proteins, Research (journal), RNA, RNA world, self-replicating RNA, thermodynamics, Yongdong Jin}

Nonsense with “Nanozymes”: New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress

_{Brian Miller
September 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

Yongdong Jin proposes that microscopic particles, which he terms nanozymes, orchestrated many of the major steps in the synthesis of the first cell. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 24, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, articles, books, chemistry, fine-tuning, Geraint F. Lewis, ID the Future, information processing, intelligent design, Luke Barnes, multiverse, Peter S. Williams, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roberto Fumagalli, Stephen Meyer, universe, videos}

Defending Fine-Tuning: How to Respond to 20 Common Objections

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 24, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design

4}

Scientists have discovered a whole suite of parameters and initial conditions appear to be exquisitely tuned to allow for complex life to exist. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 5, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, Albuquerque, algorithms, alternative splicing, amino acid sequences, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Josephson, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, David Waltham, digital information, discoveries, earth, Earth-like planets, enzymes, fundamental constants, genes, ID the Future, information processing, initial conditions, junk DNA, life, Lucky Planet, Michael Kent, molecular biology, molecular machines, mutation, natural selection, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sandia National Laboratories, spliceosome, Stephen Meyer, universe, Why Evolution Is Different}

Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design, with Michael Kent

_{Granville Sewell
March 5, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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Technological advances have led to the discovery of planets outside our solar system, with news heralding the discovery of many “earth-like” planets. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, bacteria, behavior, biochemistry, biological information, biology, biosignatures, cells, cognition, communication, Darwinism, decision-making, digestion, emergent properties, emotions, Eric Hedin, heart rate, human beings, ID the Future, information processing, intelligent design, interviews, life, nervous system, physical laws, physicists, rocks, single-celled organisms, stars, undirected processes, water}

Physicist Eric Hedin: Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 19, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

3}

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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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, biosignature, Brian Miller, cells, choices, chromosomes, cognition, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, living systems, natural processes, primitive, senses, unnatural}

Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

_{Eric Hedin
April 30, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 16, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, brain, Current Biology, distance, geometry, gravity, hive, honey bees, information processing, Lars Chittka, navigation, Neural Networks, waggle dance}

New Study Reveals Secrets of Honey Bee Waggle Dance

_{Eric Cassell
April 16, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

4}

There are several factors that make detecting direction challenging for the observing bees. One is that the dances take place inside a dark hive. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, astrobiologists, astrobiology, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, intelligent design, life, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, probabilities, prokaryotes, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water}

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

_{David Coppedge
March 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Planetology

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Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian reasoning, Big Bang, biological information, biosphere, cells, environmental fitness, evolution, ID the Future, information, information processing, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, likelihood, Lydia McGrew, nature, Thomas Bayes}

Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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If the phrase “Bayesian calculus” makes you want to run for the hills, you’re not alone! Bayesian logic can sound intimidating at first. Read More ›