2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (309+ words) As students, teachers, and schools begin another academic year, one technology that is guaranteed to be at the center of the educational pursuit, like it or not, is artificial intelligence. Since 2022, widespread use of generative AI and chatbots has upended…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (586+ words) The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures Source Research into life’s origin typically falls into two broad categories. The first consists of experiments designed…...

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, 4+ day ago   (401+ words) Adami says, “Over the years, molecular biologists have collected many examples of the evolution of new functionality” and he cites a review by Long et al. from 2003. This sentence caused me a little trepidation. Did this review contain a list…...

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, 2+ day ago   (509+ words) In five previous articles (find the full series here), I offered a series of responses to YouTuber Dave Farina’s criticisms of my defense of biochemist Michael Behe’s work. Here, in this final installment, I will engage with Farina’s comments regarding…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (174+ words) In four previous articles (find the full series here), I replied to YouTuber Dave Farina’s response to my defenses of biochemist Michael Behe’s work. In this fifth installment, I will engage with Farina’s critique of my comments on The Edge…...

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…...