Tag: information
Oxford Physicist: Information Is Irreducible to Physics
Remarkable and worth watching.
Intelligent Design and the Origin of Biological Information: A Response to Dennis Venema
I have no reason whatsoever to believe that Venema is anything but a highly competent and intelligent professional biologist.
Massimo Pigliucci Ignores ID Research, Claims “Random Alteration” of DNA Creates New Information
Discovery Institute senior fellow William Dembski is apparently living inside the heads of intelligent design critics. A recent opinion article by Massimo Pigliucci in EMBO Reports, published by the European Molecular Biology Organization, states, “In some quarters, ‘information’ seems to be a magical word: Intelligent Design proponent Bill Dembski, for example, keeps repeating that evolutionary theory cannot explain the production of new information…” Aside from the “magical” slur, Pigliucci’s description of Dembski’s view is reasonably accurate. Pigliucci, who apparently knows Dembski well-enough to call him “Bill” in one of the world’s most prestigious science journals, attempts an explanation of the talk about the origin of information: As for the claims that Dembski and others make about information and evolutionary theory, Read More ›