Category: Science
Information, Entropy, and the First Life
Physicist Eric Hedin talks about the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for naturalistic scenarios for the origin of the first living organism.
England, Davies: Honesty, if Not Agreement, on the Origin of Life
Jeremey England explained his conjecture that the flow of energy through a chemical system could cause it to self-organize in such a way as to move toward life.
Meyer: Materialism’s “Wild West of Weirdo Explanations”
The multiverse theory, one target of Meyer’s book, does beg for a parodist’s touch, which it obtains here.
Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare
So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described?
Just Down the Street from ID: “Molecular Assembly Index”
“The selection of one such possibility out of the combinatorically large number of possibilities is a process that requires information.”