Category: Irreducible Complexity
Darwinist: “Our mind, despite being a product of tinkering itself strangely wants us to …”
| March 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
… think like engineers. Recently, some Darwinists tried not to think that way. Outcome: FAIL more
2000 views this week for Granville Sewell’s new vid on YouTube
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
Illustration seems to have worked better than explanation, he says. more
Drew Berry’s animations of unseeable biology
| February 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
Billions of cells inside us, copying with complete fidelity. more
A process sequence chart view of the ribosome in action — a guest post by EP
| January 23, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cell biology, Cybernetics and Mechatronics, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Molecular Animations, Video |
For some months now, I have been having a behind the scenes correspondence with a regular viewer of UD, whom we shall call EP. He works with industrial robots, and has been fascinated by the way the ribosome works as a nano-scale automated machine cell. Accordingly, a process sequence diagram (‘map”) has been developed, based… more
Darwinists uncomfortable with “insults, misrepresentation and name-calling”?
| January 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, News |
“They realize that those who ostentatiously side with Science can’t be entirely dismissive of requests that they provide evidence in support of their worldview.” Do they? Why? more
Mike Behe: A Blind Man Carrying a Legless Man Can Safely Cross the Street
| January 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
“Increased complexity by itself is no help to life — rather, life requires functional complexity.” more
ID Foundations, 14: “Islands” vs “Continents” of complex, specific function — a pivotal issue and debate
| December 30, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Complex Specified Information, Design inference, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity |
In the current discussion on [Mis-]Representing Natural Selection, UD commenter Bruce David has posed a significant challenge: . . . it is not obvious that even with intelligence in the picture a major modification of a complex system is possible one small step at a time if there is a requirement that the system continue… more
Popcorn: watching kinesin in action, as we digest that Christmas turkey and pudding . . .
| December 25, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cell biology, Cybernetics and Mechatronics, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity, Molecular Animations, Video |
Sometimes, seeing is believing. Here is a nice, short summary of the kinesin microtubule highway “walking truck” protein in action: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt This vid gives a bit of context: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Especially notice the role played by Brownian motion, and that played by ATP. So, post turkey and pudding… more
ID Foundations, 13: Of bird necks and beaks, robots, micro-level black swan events, inductive turkeys & the design inference, the vNSR and OOL (with hints on economic transformation)
| December 24, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cybernetics and Mechatronics, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity |
Over the past few days, I have been reflecting a bit on carrying design theory-relevant thought onwards to issues tied to education and economic transformation. In so doing, I found myself looking at a micro-level, personal black swan event, as I watched student robots picking and placing little plastic widgets much like . . .… more
Ideas for carrying design thinking forward into the world of education and industrial transformation
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Education, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Science, worldview issues and society |
As we go into the holiday weekend, it may be worth the while to reflect on how design thinking and key associated ideas — here, especially the von Neumann self-replicator — could help play a role in transforming education, industry and agriculture. Details, here . . . A happy Christmas and a prosperous new year… more
Metamorphosis
| November 9, 2011 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
The new video Metamorphosis presents the case for intelligent design in a powerful way. The metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly is a spectacular example of “irreducible complexity,” and here is why. In my 2000 Mathematical Intelligencer article “A Mathematician’s View of Evolution,” I compared the development of the genetic code of life with the development… more
YouTube Darwinist responds to JonathanM post at ENV
| September 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
JonathanM is preparing a response; we don’t know if it will be a YouTube. more
Another take on the irreducibly complex eye: Sea urchins are one big eye
| September 12, 2011 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity, News |
Their whole body surface is their eyes. more
Mike Behe’s son becomes “young humanist”, says father has no religious agenda
| August 27, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Here. Ryan Schaffer interviews Leo Behe, who hopes to study philosophy in the fall term: I’m going to a university this fall to study philosophy. In the future, I hope to write on the subject of religion and why I believe it is both harmful and false. – (“The Humanist Interview: The son of intelligent… more
Infinite Probabilistic Resources Makes ID Detection Easier (Part 2)
| July 28, 2011 | Posted by Eric Holloway under Design inference, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Science |
Previously [1], I argued that not only may a universe with infinite probabilistic resources undermine ID, it will definitely undermines science. Science operates by fitting models to data using statistical hypothesis testing with an assumption of regularity between the past, present, and future. However, given the possible permutations of physical histories, the majority are mostly… more
Bradley Monton: Behe’s irreducible complexity is not a “God of the gaps” argument
| May 17, 2011 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity |
Bradley Monton, author of Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design (Broadview Press, 2009), observes, First, despite how it’s typically portrayed in the anti-intelligent design literature, I maintain that Behe’s irreducible complexity argument is not a God-of-the-gaps argument at all. Behe is not saying that we don’t know (or can’t know) how irreducibly… more
An information systems prof has some questions about Ken Miller’s “spitball” mousetrap
| May 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Informatics, Irreducible Complexity |
While explaining how he believes complex biochemical information just happen to arise through random processes, Brown University’s Ken Miller dismisses Mike Behe’s mousetrap, introduced in Darwin’s Black Box. To show that it is not an example of irreducible complexity that points to design, he recounts a childhood recollection of a pupil using a mousetap to… more
Coffee!!: World’s most complex Rube Goldberg machine …
| April 27, 2011 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity |
… here (MSNBC, April 27, 2011): This record-smashing Rube Goldberg developed by engineering students at Purdue University takes you on a journey from the big bang to the apocalypse in 244 easy steps — culminating in … [what did you expect?] Fans of Mike Behe will recall his use of the concept in Darwin’s Black Box:… more
Michael Behe on the most recent Richard Lenski “evolvability” paper
| April 15, 2011 | Posted by News under Irreducible Complexity |
Here: In my own view, the most interesting aspect of the recent Lenski paper is its highlighting of the pitfalls that Darwinian evolution must dance around, even as it is making an organism somewhat more fit. (1) If the “wrong” advantageous mutation in topoisomerase had become fixed in the population (by perhaps being slightly more… more
Johnny Cash on Irreducible Complexity and Evolution
| July 19, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Humor, Irreducible Complexity |
I posted this over a year ago. For those who missed it, enjoy. ================= Yes, Johnny cash has written a song on evolution and irreducible complexity. It’s called “One Piece at a Time”: Question: Is Darwinian evolution more or less effective than Cash’s mode of evolution? YouTube Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-zzJnKtDg Here are the lyrics (thanks to… more
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