Tag: Biological Information | Page 2

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Brian Miller

Date
September 1, 2021

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abiogenesis, Biological Information, Brian Miller, early Earth, functional organization, Georgia Tech University, high energy, high order, Jeremy England, Justin Brierley, low entropy, minimally complex cell, Non-equilibrium Systems, order, origin of life, Paul Davies, Sara Walker, self-organization, the mystery of life’s origin, Unbelievable}

Dissecting an Unbelievable Conversation about Abiogenesis

_{Brian Miller

September 1, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future physicist Brian Miller and host Eric Anderson explore a recent conversation between physicists Jeremy England and Paul Davies on Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable? radio show. Davies admitted he doesn’t want the origin of life to require divine design, while England argued that his work on non-equilibrium systems offers a promising avenue for explaining the origin of the first life in naturalistic terms. Miller and Anderson demur on both counts. They hold out hope that Davies, having recognized his philosophical bias, will eventually decide to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even if doing so has theistic implications. And as for Jeremy England’s approach, Miller says it’s fascinating work but fails to solve the origin-of-life challenge in naturalistic terms, and for multiple reasons.

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Brian Miller

Date
July 19, 2021

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appearance of design, Biological Information, cells, emergence, Every Life is on Fire, Intelligent Design, Jeremy England, minimal cell, nano-technology, origin of life, RNA World hypothesis, self-organization, self-organized systems, self-reproduction, systems biology, top-down engineering}

The Origin of Life was the Origin of an Engineering Marvel

_{Brian Miller

July 19, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller touches on various challenges facing the origin of the first life. He and host Eric Anderson discuss Jeremy England’s origin-of-life ideas and the RNA World Hypothesis, and offer multiple reasons why they are convinced that various proposed mindless processes do not explain the origin of the first self-reproducing cell. Miller urges another approach, one that draws on engineering principles and embraces the evidence in even the simplest cell of highly intelligent engineering.

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Günter Bechly

Date
July 12, 2021

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abrupt appearance in the fossil record, Biological Information, Cambrian Explosion, Christianity, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinism, Evolution, Fossil Record, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Joshua Swamidass, Justin Brierley, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, random mutation, saltation, specified information, Theism, Unbelievable, whale evolution}

An ID Debate: Joshua Swamidass and Günter Bechly, Pt. 1

_{Günter Bechly

July 12, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future features a debate over the merits of intelligent design. Günter Bechly is a German paleoentomologist heard many times on ID the Future, who says the science convinced him that intelligent design is true. S. Joshua Swamidass is a computational biologist at Washington University in Saint Louis who says ID may or may not be true in some part of what it affirms, but for him, the science doesn’t lead you to it. They met in a dialogue hosted by Justin Brierley on his Unbelievable? podcast, reposted here with Brierley’s permission. This is the first half of the conversation. The second half is coming to IDTF soon.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 2, 2021

Tagged
Allan Sandage, argument from ignorance, beginning of the universe, Biological Information, Brian Josephson, Brian Keating, causal adequacy, complex specified information, Cosmological Argument, Evolution, fine tuning, God, God hypothesis, God of the gaps argument, Henry Quastler, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, mind-brain, origin of life, Robert Jastrow, teleological argument, Thomas Aquinas}

Return of the God Hypothesis: Q&A with Stephen Meyer, Pt. 2

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 2, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future Stephen Meyer continues fielding questions about his new book, Return of the God Hypothesis. The occasion was a live Zoom event for people who had pre-ordered the book. Daniel Reeves emceed, and here in the second part, Meyer rebuts the objection that intelligent design is an argument from ignorance. He also answers another objection, namely that our uniform experience with designing minds is that minds are embodied in material brains and yet Meyer seems to infer a non-embodied mind as the explanation for the design of life and the universe. Meyer also lists some prominent scientists who have either endorsed the book or championed key arguments in the book. Meyer is the Director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Reeves is the CSC’s Director of Education and Outreach.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
May 26, 2021

Tagged
beginning of universe, Big Bang, Biological Information, Darwin’s Doubt, Darwinism, developmental gene regulatory network, divine intervention, DNA, embryonic lethals, Eric Davidson, Evolution, fine tuning, hierarchically arranged information, integrated circuit, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, J. Scott Turner, Materialism, Neo-Darwinism, scientific revolution, stacked information systems, teleology}

Return of the God Hypothesis: Q&A with Stephen Meyer, Pt. 1

_{Stephen C. Meyer

May 26, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future Stephen C. Meyer fields questions about Return of the God Hypothesis*, his new bestselling book from HarperOne. The occasion was a live Zoom event for people who had pre-ordered the book. Daniel Reeves emceed, and in his introductory conversation with Meyer the two discuss a colorful tidbit about Meyer’s time at Cambridge University when he was working on his PhD. Turns out we may have Meyer’s wife to thank for him still possessing the ability to write such a probing book. In the Q&A Meyer summarizes the thesis of the book and then takes questions—everything from how evolutionists explain, or fail to explain, the pattern of stacked information in living things to what’s the object on the shelf behind Meyer. (*As an Amazon Associate, Discovery earns from qualifying purchases.)

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 12, 2021

Tagged
abiogenesis, Academic Freedom, Arthur Hobson, Ball State University, Biological Information, entropy, Evolution, generalized second law of thermodynamics, information, Intelligent Design, life comes from life, Omne vivum ex vivo, origin of life, quantum theory, second law of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics}

Physicist Eric Hedin Talks Entropy and the Origin of Life

_{Eric Hedin

May 12, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with Canceled Science* author and physicist Eric Hedin to discuss Hedin’s new book and, in particular, the book’s take on the origin-of-life problem. Hedin says the second law of thermodynamics poses a serious problem for the idea of a mindless origin of the first single-celled organism from prebiotic materials. Such an event would have involved a breathtaking increase in new information, and Hedin says that physics tells us pretty clearly that mindless nature degrades information; it doesn’t create it. Are there workarounds? Listen in as he explains why he’s not optimistic. And grab a copy of his new book to get his extended take. (*As an Amazon Associate, Discovery earns from qualifying purchases.)

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
May 10, 2021

Tagged
action at a distance, Atheism, Big Bang, Biological Information, constant spirit action, deism, fine tuning, General Scholium, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, guided evolution, hypothesis non fingo, Intelligent Design, inverse square law, Isaac Newton, mechanical philosophy, multiverse, occult properties, origin of life, Principia Mathematica, quantum cosmology, RNA World hypothesis, scholastic philosophy, scientific revolution, singularity, Theism, theistic evolution, theory of gravity, unguided evolution}

God Hypothesis Returns: Frank Turek and Stephen Meyer Report

_{Stephen C. Meyer

May 10, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future episode features excerpts from a lively conversation with Frank Turek as host and Stephen Meyer as guest. The focus: Meyer’s new USA Today bestseller, Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe.* The two discuss the new book, and Meyer fields questions from the audience. The conversation originally appeared on Turek’s national radio show, CrossExamined, and the excerpts from that longer interview are used here with permission.

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 3, 2021

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abiogenesis, alkaline thermal vents, Biological Information, Brian Miller, cell membrane, DNA, early Earth, entropy, Evolution, Helen Hansma, Intelligent Design, interfering cross reactions, Jack Szostak, Jeremy England, lipid bilayer, mica hypothesis, mica sheets, Michael Russell, natural templating, Nick Lane, origin of life, polymerase, prebiotic chemistry, protocell, raw energy, RNA, RNA World hypothesis}

Brian Miller Talks Star-Crossed RNA Strands and the Origin of Life

_{Brian Miller

May 3, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller continues his conversation with host Eric Anderson. Here they explore more problems facing the idea that life began as strings of RNA. In their discussion of the RNA World Hypothesis and the origin of life generally, they touch on ideas advanced by Jeremy England, Jack Shostak, Nick Lane, Helen Hansma, and others. One of several big problems with the RNA-first hypothesis underscored by Miller and Anderson: For it to have even a slender chance of working, you need prebiotic Earth to generate not one but two information-rich RNA strands, and they somehow need to find each other before falling apart, and do so despite the fact that they aren’t looking for each other and the statistical odds of them bumping into each other at random are vanishingly small. What about approaching the origin of life from an intelligent design perspective? Miller explains why he’s convinced that the design perspective, far from stopping science, is actually much more fruitful than a blind-evolution approach.

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Brian Miller

Date
April 14, 2021

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abiogenesis, amino acid sequences, ATP Synthase, Biological Information, enzymes, Every Life on Fire, high energy, Ilya Priogine, Jeremy England, low entropy, Michael Russell, Molecular Machines, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, origin of life, origin-of-life research, Proteins, self-organization, Thermodynamics}

Brian Miller on Life, Thermodynamics and Jeremy England

_{Brian Miller

April 14, 2021

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In today’s ID the Future physicist Brian Miller discusses fellow physicist Jeremy England’s book Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origin of Living Things. Has England made a significant step toward solving the mystery of how life first began? In Miller’s conversation with host Eric Anderson, he argues that while England’s laboratory work is fascinating and innovative, what’s happening in his experiments differs dramatically from what is required of even the simplest life, so much so that the experiments do not shed the kind of light on the mystery of life’s origin that some may hope they do. Moreover, life does certain crucial things with energy that are unknown outside of the biological realm, Miller says, and without those processes available to prebiotic chemicals, it is far from clear how they could ever assemble into the molecular biological machinery essential for the first self-reproducing biological entity.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 12, 2021

Tagged
agnosticism, Big Bang, Biological Information, circumstantial evidence, cosmological models, cosmology, ensemble of clues, epistemic support, fine-tuning, general revelation, God, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Lawrence Krauss, Materialism, multiverse, New Atheists, NOMA, Non-overlapping magisteria, philosophy of science, purpose, quantum theory, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Science and faith, singularity, special revelation, Stephen C. Meyer, teleology, Theism, universal wave function, Wheeler-DeWitt equation}

Stephen Meyer Defends His New Book to Cosmologist Brian Keating, Pt. 1

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 12, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future features, by permission, the first part of a long-form conversation between Stephen Meyer, author of the newly released Return of the God Hypothesis, and Brian Keating, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. Do the laws of cosmology, physics, and biology exhibit dispositive evidence of a cosmic designer? Do the Big Bang and fine tuning suggest a “Mind” behind it all? In the book and in this conversation Meyer argues yes. Keating tells what he likes about the new book and draws on his deep knowledge of cosmology to press Meyer with some great followup questions. Check out Keating’s website here, and learn more about Meyer’s new book here.