Year: 2015
Peer-Reviewed Paper Successfully Measures Specified Complexity in Computer Images
“Is information being created when we snap a picture of Niagara Falls?”
#4 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Fear of Intelligent Design Prevents Some Biologists from Accepting ENCODE
In Nature, Philip Ball acknowledges an “anxiety that admitting any uncertainty about the mechanisms of evolution will be exploited.”
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Paper Develops New Ways of Measuring Complex and Specified Information in Life
The “Game of Life” is a computer simulation that’s meant to mimic living systems.
#5 of Our Top Stories of 2015: C. elegans and the Problem of Evolving Animal Body Plans
Even simple little worms have A/P and D/V axes, but how those axes get specified during development is far from simple.
#6 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Peer-Reviewed Paper Reveals Darwin’s Unavoidable Catch-22 Problem
Before evolving new features, organisms would be swamped by genetic junk.