Tag: structure

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
March 18, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 3D spatial organization, active matter, Aristotle, biology, cargo recognition, cascades, cells, condensates, cycles, cytoplasm, Darwin's Black Box, dissipative systems, DNA transcription, droplets, electrolytes, endoplasmic reticulum, Energy, enzyme activity, function, goal-directedness, Golgi bodies, Ilya Prigogine, intentionality, intracellular landscape, living systems, lysosomes, machines, macromolecules, matter, mechanism, medical school, Michael Behe, mitochondria, molecular biology, molecular grammar, naturalism, neo-Darwinian evolution, nucleus, organisms, physics, Riccardo Babic, scaffolding, Science and Culture Today, science of purpose, signaling cascades, St. Thomas Aquinas, structure, TCA cycle, telos, tornadoes, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Velcro, whirlpools}

Active Matter: How Function Determines Structure

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
March 18, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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As always, the approach of naturalism is to reduce the complexity of natural phenomena to basic physical laws. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, Arctic, Aristotle, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, biosphere, blood-clotting cascade, blubber, cetaceans, Chance and Necessity, CHNOPS, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, duality, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, feathers, function, Jaques Monod, language, marine iguanas, Mass, Michael Behe, penguins, physical reality, property, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, structure, structure-function relationship, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism}

How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

7}

The duality of emergence and specified irreducible complexity must be discarded. In doing so, we create a framework compatible with Thomistic Aristotelianism. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biology, Carl Woese, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, dualism, Erwin Schrödinger, Essays on Life Itself, function, gravitation, Inertia, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, language, Life Itself, Mass, Michael Behe, molecular biologists, natural selection, phenotype, physics, randomness, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, structure, What Is Life?}

In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 2, 2025

Biology, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

8}

It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abstraction, airfoil, Albert Einstein, anatomy, antennae, Aristotle, biology, duality, emergence, engineering, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, function, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, mathematicians, Michael Behe, molecular biology, physics, physiology, Pierre-Simon Laplace, propellers, René Descartes, Return of the God Hypothesis, rockets, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, Stephen Meyer, structure, structure-function relationship, Werner Heisenberg, What Is Life?}

Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 9, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, behavior, Biola University, biological systems, chemotaxis, David Klinghoffer, design logic, ID 3.0, intelligent design, methylation, misinformation, navigation, peer-reviewed literature, phosphate, Research, structure, systems engineering}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Applies Systems Engineering to Bacterial Chemotaxis

_{Brian Miller
May 9, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

The article further demonstrates how only a design-based framework yields significant insight into the higher-level organization of biological systems. Read More ›

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post

Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Biomimetics, cockroaches, communication, control, electronics, evolutionary processes, hardware, intelligent design, legs, robot, sensors, structure, Stuart Burgess}

Paper Digest: A Robot Is Built Using Cockroach Biomimicry

_{Emily Reeves
October 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

6}

The understanding of what it takes to build complex systems sheds light on the causal hurdles that would be necessary for evolutionary processes to overcome. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
September 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aristotle, biomolecules, Charles Darwin, CHNOPS, embryogenesis, emergence, Etienne Gilson, evolution, function, Galileo Galilei, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, Nicolaus Copernicus, primordial soup, science of purpose, structure, telos, Thomas Aquinas}

Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 28, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

5}

The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
July 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, carpenter, cells, chemical reactions, cytoplasm, egg, enzymes, function, glucose, hammer, insulin, life, materialism, materialists, natural selection, nature, oxygen, purpose, randomness, science of purpose, scientists, sperm, structure, teleology, telos}

Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, biomolecules, chemical reactions, form, function, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism}

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›