Category: Self-Org. Theory
(More) Function, the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE
| March 24, 2013 | Posted by andyjones under 'Junk DNA', Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Self-Org. Theory |
I need a picture of a small, hot-blooded mammal taunting an irritable dinosaur. An animation would be even better: the dinosaur would have a tic which makes him roar ‘IDiot’ constantly. Maybe make that several small mammals, becoming dozens and then hundreds. Singing something witty to the hamster dance. Or maybe not that last bit.… more
A Designed Object’s Entropy Must Increase for Its Design Complexity to Increase – Part 2
| September 5, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Biophysics, Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, ID Foundations, Informatics, Physics, Self-Org. Theory |
In order for a biological system to have more biological complexity, it often requires a substantial increase in thermodynamic entropy, not a reduction of it, contrary to many intuitions among creationists and IDists. This essay is part II of a series that began with Part 1 The physicist Fred Hoyle famously said: The chance that… more
A Designed Object’s Entropy Must Increase for Its Design Complexity to Increase – Part 1
| September 4, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Biophysics, Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, ID Foundations, Informatics, Physics, Self-Org. Theory |
The common belief is that adding disorder to a designed object will destroy the design (like a tornado passing through a city, to paraphrase Hoyle). Now if increasing entropy implies increasing disorder, creationists will often reason that “increasing entropy of an object will tend to destroy its design”. This essay will argue mathematically that this… more
Transport pods inside our cells resemble transformer toys?
| May 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design, News, Self-Org. Theory |
“Briggs and colleagues were surprised to find that the COPI building blocks are capable of a ‘transformer’ act: they can change shape to connect to more or fewer copies of themselves.” more
From The Best Schools: James Barham replies to James Shapiro
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Self-Org. Theory |
Leaving Darwinism is simply giving oneself permission to think. And that includes patiently rethinking a number of questions (like the one Barham revisits. more
Non-materialist atheist philosopher James Barham rates an attack at Huffpo
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Self-Org. Theory |
“Natural genetic engineering has not been around forever even if all life as we know it presupposes it.” more
James Barham at Best Schools ‘fesses up #6: Biology will finally become a science on a par with physics when …
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Self-Org. Theory |
… when biologists have the same attitude towards Darwin as physicists have towards Galileo and Kepler. more
From The Best Schools: Seeing Past Darwin II: James A. Shapiro
| May 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Self-Org. Theory |
“Much in our culture depends upon the public’s being made aware that Darwinian theory as standardly interpreted is intellectually bankrupt.” more
Mammalian visual system prompts talk of design, self-organization, in journal
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News, Self-Org. Theory |
“Our theory of universality in network self-organization explains how they could independently develop a common design.” more
Darwinist attack on self-org theorist James Shapiro: Payback for talking to ID guys?
| February 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, Self-Org. Theory |
Hmmm. Shapiro would never describe himself as a proponent of design theory, let alone a “creationist.” more
Memo to Santa Fe Institute: Take the ghost of Darwin out and shoot it. Dawn.
| February 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Self-Org. Theory |
As a matter of fact, either Darwinism or science will survive. Not both. more
From The First Gene: Chapter 8: “Redundant, low-informational selfordering is not organization.”
| February 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Cell biology, News, Self-Org. Theory |
Unwanted cross-reactions are invariably ignored in these celebrated models. more
Dembski replies to Shapiro: “Natural genetic engineering” is just magic, by another name. Can you make it science?
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Self-Org. Theory |
“For him, natural genetic engineering is a magic phrase, a label, that he attaches to hypothesized processes that are opaque to him and yet that he claims result in evolutionary novelty.” more
Axe and Gauger challenge Shapiro to show that their approach is wrong
| January 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Self-Org. Theory |
“But of course, as experimentalists we are very willing to see the evidence that might prove us wrong.” more
James Shapiro responds to Biologic Institute’s Doug Axe and Ann Gauger
| January 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News, Self-Org. Theory |
“Proteins evolve largely by shuffling and accreting functional subregions called “domains,” not through the Darwinian modifications of individual amino acids.” more
“Is James Shapiro a Design Theorist?”: James Shapiro Replies to Bill Dembski
| January 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Self-Org. Theory |
“I think it would be a very positive development for ID proponents to give up on all theological crutches … Is Bill Dembski willing to do that?” more
#10 of 2011 for ID community: Limits to self-organization of life identified
| January 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Self-Org. Theory |
“In this respect my argument is similar to, for example, Michael Behe’s argument involving the notion of irreducible complexity (e.g. in Darwin’s Black Box).” more
Memo to markf: Self-organization theory is not a threat to design
| November 15, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Self-Org. Theory |
There are many non-Darwin theories of evolution out there. None of them do away with the necessity of design. more
Eugene V. Koonin’s Darwin-free book free on Kindle! – No. 1 in Biology
| September 6, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Natural selection, Self-Org. Theory |
UD News staff are booting up the Kindle now. more
Study of ants shows some much better informed than others, questions self-organization
| August 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Animal minds, News, Self-Org. Theory |
It also leads to a promising question: How do some ants get to be more informed than others, and why do the others listen to them? more