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No Free Lunch theorems

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Defending Douglas Axe on the Rarity of Protein Folds

The following examination and defense of Dr. Axe serves as a direct, empirical test of Rope Kojonen’s design hypothesis. Read More ›
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Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Proteins Are Rare and Isolated — And Thus, Cannot Evolve

Here is a simple analogy. Imagine a planetary rover lands on the north pole of a planet, and the humans controlling it wish to drive to the south pole. Read More ›
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Photo: METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL, by loren chapman, via Flickr (cropped).

Conservation of Information — The Theorems

We’ve seen active information before in the Dawkins Weasel example. The baseline search for METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL stands no hope of success. Read More ›
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Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design

What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors? Read More ›
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Hear This: Cricket Ears Evolved Like Vertebrate Ears

These findings challenge Darwinism because species that are clearly unrelated by common ancestry employ common engineering principles. Read More ›
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How Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism

Eric Cassell discuss the No Free Lunch theorems of William Macready and David Wolpert, and the problem of blind searches for everything from Rubik’s cube solutions to the formula for WD-40. Read More ›
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Mistakes Our Critics Make: Limits of Evolutionary Processes

The evolution of many complex traits, such as echo location in whales, requires the modification or creation of numerous proteins, physical structures, and neural connections. Read More ›
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The Information Enigma: A Closer Look

I will flesh out the concept of biological information, and I will explain why significant quantities of it cannot be generated through natural processes. Read More ›
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No Escape from Intelligent Design: Brian Miller Explores Coevolution

“Coevolutionary processes cannot drive macroevolution,” explains Dr. Miller. “Again it requires intelligent design.” Read More ›
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Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

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

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