1+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) Adami runs through an example. In his example, 100 bits of information are required. This would take about 1030 attempts to produce by random chance. If we generously grant a billion attempts for every second in the half-billion years it took life…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (193+ words) From Dr. Selim, “It came as a big surprise to us that one of the earliest life forms on Earth — evolutionarily older and simpler cells — had already developed communication structures regulated by calcium signals similar to those found in the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (503+ words) This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Source In my previous article, I describe how a recent paper proposing chemical pathways to life’s origin recycles failed models and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (161+ words) The representative example I will address here is chemist Yongdong Jin’s article, published in the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) journal Research, titled “On the Origin of Life on Earth: The Nanozymes Hypothesis, and More.” Jin proposes…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (513+ words) Followers of the debate between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution will be familiar with Christoph Adami's example. Source We have been going through Christoph Adami’s book, The Evolution of Biological Information. The last section of his chapter on “Experiments in…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (350+ words) In any case, let us review what Farina did in fact say in response to other aspects of my critique. Let’s move on to part two, which is about the bacterial flagellum, the honorary mascot of intelligent design. He starts…...