Category: Intelligent Design
Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths
A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy.
Tornadoes, Ice, and Cells: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to Origin-of-Life Scenarios
This is a subject on which materialists are largely silent, and with good reason.
Escape from Randomness: Can Foldons Explain Protein Functional Shapes?
Faced with impossible odds, materialists struggle to find natural laws that can fold a protein correctly the way life does.
Free Energy and the Origin of Life: Natural Engines to the Rescue
A fundamental hurdle facing all origin-of-life theories is the fact that the first cell must have had a free energy far greater than its chemical precursors.
Dan Graur, Darwin’s Reactionary
To call him this is an irony, I realize, since the University of Houston evolutionary biologist and Junk DNA diehard is a flaming left-winger.
Nanotechnology Engineers Struggle to Match Cell Performance
Scientists are taking baby steps toward imitating what cells do all the time.
“Life Is a Discontinuity in the Universe”
There are 37 trillion cells in the human body, some 200 cell types, and 12,000+ specialized proteins. How does it all come together?
The Origin of Life, Self-Organization, and Information
In an article here yesterday, I described the thermodynamic challenges to any purely materialistic theory for the origin of life.
Intelligent Design in…Marriage, U.S. History, and More: Michael Medved, Diane Medved, Jay Nordlinger in Seattle, June 21
Very often there is an uncanny sense of “design” to successful marriages. The natural way of things isn’t enough to explain them.
Thermodynamics of the Origin of Life
Popular articles on origin-of-life research often portray the field as constantly advancing and quickly converging on a purely materialistic explanation for the first cell.