Category: Irreducible Complexity
VIDEO: Doug Axe on making odds on getting to a protein by chance in Amino Acid sequence space
| May 19, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity, Origin Of Life, Video |
In Illustra Media’s Darwin’s Dilemma, there is a clip on proteins as islands of function in amino acid sequence space: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Food for thought. As a stimulus to such, let us next note how the bloggist Wintery Knight has given an interesting summary of the challenges involved if a chance-dominated process… more
A “simple” summing up of the basic case for scientifically inferring design (in light of the logic of scientific induction per best explanation of the unobserved past)
In answering yet another round of G’s talking points on design theory and those of us who advocate it, I have outlined a summary of design thinking and its links onward to debates on theology, that I think is worth being somewhat adapted, expanded and headlined. With your indulgence: _______________ >> The epistemological warrant for… more
Andre asks an excellent question regarding DNA as a part of an in-cell irreducibly complex communication system
| April 23, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity, Origin Of Life, Tree of life |
Newbie commenter Andre, in an exchange with Mr Matzke, asks some interesting questions concerning DNA. First, let us remind ourselves of what we are discussing, courtesy NIH: Next, Andre’s comment: DNA has the following; 1. Functional Information 2. Encoder 3. Error correction [4]. Decoder . . . can you please show me in a step… more
EA’s “oldie but goodie” short primer on Intelligent Design, Sept. 2003
| April 12, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Complex Specified Information, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Science, worldview issues and society |
Sometimes, we run across a sleeper that just begs to be headlined here at UD. EA’s short primer on ID, drawn up in Sept 2003, is such a sleeper. Let’s observe: __________ >> Brief Primer on Intelligent Design Having read a fair amount of material on intelligent design and having been involved in various… more
The Bacterial Flagellum Revisited: A Paradigm of Design
| September 24, 2012 | Posted by Jonathan M under Irreducible Complexity |
Going back to my undergraduate days, I have long been struck by the engineering elegance and intrinsic beauty of that familiar icon of intelligent design, the bacterial flagellar nano-motor. In tribute to this masterpiece of design, I have just published a detailed (31 pages, inclusive of references) literature review in which I describe the processes… more
Irreducible complexity: “The Enigma Code could be broken, whereas the enigma of the unconscious cannot.”
| August 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, Mind, News |
Nothing like Enigma explains … the behaviour of a large group of people, all with separate individual histories, who get involved with a mass movement. more
An interesting use of the term “irreducible complexity”
| August 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity |
Maybe the connection between Darwinism and totalitarian regimes runs deeper than even Richard Weikart thinks … more
How complex systems can arise from chemical elements
| July 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Chemistry, Irreducible Complexity, News |
If they are directed by thousands of irreducibly complex minds. more
Drew Berry animates the malaria parasite
| July 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
We’re pretty sure Mike Behe likes it. more
Want to watch the programming of life video and ponder the roots of coded, complex, functionally specific information in the living cell?
| July 24, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
The vid is embedded here at 640 wide. Appealing to the WordPress gods to allow an embed here: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt And, let me clip the linked KF post: . . . Of course, there is a hot — and too often quite uncivil — controversy surrounding the inference to design on empirically… more
Christian Darwinists get it wrong at BioLogos … but isn’t that the job they are supposed to do?
| July 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Irreducible Complexity, News |
First of all, Venema confuses “irreducibly complex” with “essential for the viability of the organism.” more
Supergeek Stephen Wolfram on “computational irreducibility”
| July 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
“I tend to think that the concept of computational irreducibility is probably the answer to the philosophical debates of the past two thousand years about the relationship between free will and determinism.” more
Proteins have slip knots, like a shoelace bow?
| June 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Irreducible Complexity, News |
Evolved somehow? When did “somehow” enter the lexicon of science? At one time, science was about “exactly,” not “somehow.” more
Irreducible complexity of humans is why social sciences must chuck their physics envy
| May 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
“Because of the many interrelated causes at work in social systems, many questions are simply ‘impervious to experimentation.’” more
Possible new sense organ discovered in whales?
| May 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
But how on Earth does a rorqual manage to coordinate this activity? [The researchers] describe a sensory organ that they discovered in the jaws of several species that might offer an answer more
FOR RECORD: ID Foundations, 14a — Replying to a trumpeted violation of confidence
| May 8, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity, Science, worldview issues and society |
For some time now, one of the ID Foundations series, has been on the UD “most popular” list. I had occasion to visit it just now, to see why. I found a statement by a Mr Peter Griffin regarding an exchange with the pseudonymous anti design theory web personality known as Zachriel, and find myself… more
Don Johnson’s new Programming of Life vid
| March 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
An exploration of microbiology, information science, and the origin of life. more
mouse trap illustration vs. 3-glasses-3-knives illustration — Irreducible Complexity, Depth of Integration
| March 24, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Darwin once remarked the tail of the peacock made him sick because the unnecessary extravagance of nature was suggestive of Intelligent Design. What made Darwin sick then still holds true today, he never solved the problem, and it is more in evidence by the problem of Irreducible Complexity (IC). To illustrate extravagance, consider the simple… more
Molecular snapshots of tens of thousands processes involved in DNA damage repair obtained
| March 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
And every single one of them is a big Darwinian accident, right? So is their co-ordination. more
It would have been handwaving, but they ran out of hands.
| March 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
Co-option and co-evolution must be very lucky indeed to put together the right package with no underlying design. more