Posts Tagged ‘origin of life’

Design in the Universe + Evil + Suffering=???

I got a candid question from a reader named Jon:

“I’m curious on how you can see “design” in nature, based on your logic.

How does this line of reasoning explain pain, suffering and natural disasters?

Why design a world that is constantly cooling and erupting with violent events that kill millions of innocent people?

What about our fear of pain and death? If God was real, then he has no fear of death or pain and yet he created beings that must suffer this fate. What does that say about him?

Posted in Information Theory

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Tags: Christian, communication theory, decoding, DNA, Dr. Paul Brand, encoding, evil & suffering, evil in the world, free will, genetic code, Information Theory, origin of life, pragmatics, semantics, statistics, syntax, teleology

My Bell Labs - Lucent Technology Lectures

In July 1948, Claude Shannon of Bell Labs published his seminal paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.” This is THE definitive work on engineering communication theory. It laid the groundwork for the information age we live in today.

59 years later, in April 2007, I gave a lecture to 120 engineers at Bell Labs, which is now a division of Alcatel-Lucent Technology in Warrenville, Illinois. These engineers design servers, software, data networks, fiber optic equipment, microwave stations, and devices for cell phone and Internet communication.

These guys tracked perfectly with every point. They knew…

Posted in Information Theory

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Tags: atheist, atheist's riddle, bell labs, Claude Shannon, communication theory, decoding, digital communication, DNA, encoding, Infidels Forum, information entropy, Information Theory, origin of life, OSI 7-layer model, redundancy

Origin of life debate, the English Way

I recently joined atheist Peter Hearty in a UK radio debate on the origin of life.

This was broadcast on the British radio programme “Unbelievable.”

Posted in Atheism

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Tags: atheist, computer science, electrical engineering, natural processes, origin of life

Testable Hypothesis for Intelligent Design, Pt 4

A Counterpart to the Anthropic Principle: The Genome Intelligence Principle

In astronomy we have the Anthropic Principle, which is both an observation and a hypothesis that the universe appears to be fine tuned to support life.

I postulate a Genome Intelligence Principle. It is analogous to the Anthropic Principle, as it both observes and presupposes a higher level of order than mere laws of physics or chance would allow.

Posted in Evolution

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Tags: 3-letter codon convention, anthropic principle, dna science, genetic code, Genome Intelligence Principle, junk DNA, laws of physics, materialistic paradigm, origin of life, physics and chemistry, presumption of underlying order, subatomic particles

The Iron Curtain of 2010

The Berlin Wall in East Germany fell on November 9, 1989, after 28 years of isolation. When the dominoes of communism began to fall, the speed at which they tumbled was amazing.

Today, Darwinism is in the same place in 2010 as communism was in 1986. It’s wheezing like a dying animal. Flailing wildly. Draining limited resources defending itself against attackers. It’s barely able to feed its own people, let alone advance useful scientific theories of its own.

Posted in Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Tags: biological evolution, common descent, darwin's bulldogs, Darwinism, Human Genome Project, junk DNA, mobile genetic elements, mutation algorithm, origin of life

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