Tag: Quanta Magazine

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Cambrian Explosion, Carnegie Institution, complexity, diversity, earth, eukaryotic cells, functional complexity, functionality, intelligent mind, kinetic energy, laws of nature, laws of physics, life, Michael Wong, mineralogists, non-living matter, organisms, Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, quantum theory, Robert Hazen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified complexity, speed of light, universe}

Theory of Increasing Complexity Fails the Test of Science

_{Eric Hedin
April 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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What are evolutionists to do when their theory runs afoul of the laws of nature? Why, propose a bold new law of nature! 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, Eugene V. Koonin, 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, The Logic of Chance, 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

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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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Date
May 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Assembly Theory, combinatorial space, enzymes, genetic instructions, intelligent design, interpretation, Lee Cronin, life, molecules, Philip Ball, proteins, Quanta Magazine, specification, William A. Dembski}

Meet Intelligent Design’s Naturalistic Cousin: Assembly Theory

_{Science and Culture
May 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When one notices conceptual similarities and parallels, it would be remiss for us not to highlight them. Read More ›

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Date
May 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, devolution, Eric Anderson, evolution, Evolution News, ID the Future, intelligent design, intelligent designer, molecular evolution, parasites, Quanta Magazine, RNA, University of Tokyo}

Did U of Tokyo Just Solve the Mystery of Life’s Origin?

_{Science and Culture
May 9, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

2}

Physicist Brian Miller explains that nothing remotely this dramatic occurred in the experiment. Read More ›

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Date
March 9, 2022

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Geneva, Higgs Boson, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, Large Hadron Collider, Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, Reductionism}

“Miraculously” Fine-Tuned Universe? Evidence from the Large Hadron Collider

_{Science and Culture
March 9, 2022

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

The continued spookiness of the fine-tuning of the interactions in the universe is a constant threat to materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 12, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Abraham Loeb, Anna Ijjas, Big Bang, brane, cosmic beginning, cosmic inflation, cyclical cosmology, entropy, homogeneity, intelligent design, Paul Steinhardt, Quanta Magazine, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, Stephen Meyer}

Paul Steinhardt’s Cyclical Cosmology Fails to Challenge a Cosmic Beginning

_{Brian Miller
January 12, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

5}

The conclusion that the universe had a beginning is far more parsimonious and consistent with the evidence. Read More ›

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Date
December 11, 2019

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, black holes, metric tensor, Natalie Wolchover, Nobel Prize, Paul Dirac, Quanta Magazine, quantum mechanics, Shakespearean sonnet, Steven Weinberg, University of Amsterdam}

Are the Laws of the Universe “Inevitable”?

_{Science and Culture
December 11, 2019

Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

What is inevitable here is not the mathematical beauty of physical law, but the circumlocutions scientists use to evade design in nature. Read More ›

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Date
November 19, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Alzheimer’s, apoptosis, Biological Information: New Perspectives, brain, cells, Cornell University, Darwin Devolves, DNA repair, Douglas Axe, eggs, Immune System, inflammation, intelligent design, John Sanford, memory, mice, Michael Behe, mutations, National Institutes of Health, New York University, oocyte, pathogen, Quanta Magazine, Research, Robert J. Marks II, skin, stem cells, UC Davis, William A. Dembski}

Memory — New Research Reveals Cells Have It, Too

_{Science and Culture
November 19, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

A memory of past events helps a cell learn how to respond to recurring threats and protect the genome. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 8, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Ard Louis, ATP, Charles Darwin, evolution, information, Jeremy England, MIT, Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, self-organization, thermodynamics}

Hailed as the “Next Darwin,” MIT’s Jeremy England Sheds Little Light on Life’s Origins

_{Brian Miller
August 8, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life, Physics

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England’s research is focused on the wrong question. Origin-of-life theories are not helped by identifying processes that efficiently dissipate energy. Read More ›