1+ week, 1+ 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, 1+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ 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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (159+ words) Adami presents the eye as “a very instructive example of a complex trait that has gradually evolved.” He says that it evolves by the gradual addition of parts to an existing functional system. Each part is constructed by reusing and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (554+ words) A just published puff-piece interview by The Water Diplomat with Dutch human and nature rights lawyer Jan van de Venis illustrates this tactic. Let’s take a look. Van de Venis is asked to describe how nature rights is being furthered....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (751+ words) Failing to acknowledge mistakes when they are pointed out to you is one of the surest signs of “soldier mindset.” Source Three years ago, I published a series of four articles (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) engaging with Dave Farina who…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (340+ words) But before we knew very much about him — including the fact that he does survive in our genomes — it was easy to co-opt him for the role of the subhuman, which human evolution theory badly needs. Without a subhuman, the…...