Tag: mutations
New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information
William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target.
Love, Chocolate, and Neutral Evolution
Neutral evolution means mutations are occurring all the time, and most of the time they are neutral, or nearly neutral.
Paper Shows that “Mutational Load” Arguments Don’t Refute ENCODE
Perhaps one of ENCODE’s staunchest critics has been Dan Graur, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston.
Robert J. Marks: Coronavirus and the “Primacy of Information”
This is the kind of insight that halts you in your tracks: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.”
Judge Michael Behe’s Case for Intelligent Design Yourself
“Darwin’s mechanism is dominated by ‘Poison-Pill’ mutations: positively-selected, loss-of-function mutation.” It “squanders genetic information for short-term gain.”