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Alex Williams writes on the incredible problem of meta-information in living things.

Evolutionists have never been able to give a satisfactory answer to the problem of where the new information comes from that evolution requires for turning a microbe into a myxomycete or a maze-mastering mammal. Their best guess is gene duplication (which gives them an extra length of DNA, but it contains no new information) followed by random mutations that are supposed to turn the duplicated information into something new and useful.

But the problem of information origin in biology is far bigger than most people realize. Information by itself is useless unless the cell knows how to use it. Evolution not only requires new information, it also requires extra new information about how to use that new information.

Information about information is called meta-information. We can see how it works in making a cake. If you want to make a cake, you need a recipe that contains: (a) a list of ingredients, and (b) instructions on how to mix and cook the ingredients to produce the desired outcome. The list of ingredients is the primary information, and the instructions on what to do with the ingredients is the meta-information.

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From AIG...this scientific article has Christian worldview mixed in...and details the inner workings of the ear.

And to think that random mutations, natural selection, and the passage of billions of years did this. Isn't Mother Nature amazing.

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Nina Shapiro, for the Seattle Weekly, reports that a candidate for a school board seat in the semirural locale of North Mason County along the Hood Canal, John Campbell, is pledging to "turn heat into light."

One thing he has failed to disclose, however, is his link to the "intelligent design" movement and the Discovery Institute, the Seattle-based think tank that is a leading proponent of the neo-creationist theory that life and other aspects of the universe came into being not by evolution but by the work of an intelligent "cause."

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Steve Connor, Science Editor for The Independent Sunday, announces that the "poster child" for Darwinian Evolution is back.

Michael Majerus, a professor of genetics at Cambridge University, has spent the past seven years collecting data from a series of experiments he has carried out in his own garden. In a seminal description of his results to a scientific conference this week in Sweden, Professor Majerus gave a resounding vote of confidence in the peppered month story. He found unequivocal evidence that birds were indeed responsible for the lower numbers of the black carbonaria forms of the moth. It was a complete vindication of the peppered month story, he told the meeting.

IMHO...a couple of issues with the most recent peppered moth study. It's still a moth, and the evolution is an oscillation of populations, just like the finches of Galapagos. Of course, the Darwinists will appeal to the "great creators", random chance, natural selection, and the jackpot, hundreds of millions of years. Given enough time, anything can happen, right?

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A good letter to the editor in the Montgomery Advertiser from a clear thinker from Auburn, AL, pointing out some of the sloppy thinking on the other side. Sad thing is, the other guy likely doesn't realize how careless he really is, and he's a professional journalist.

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It's interesting to see how the other side continually harps, trying to make IDers a group with an agenda of tired, shopworn ideas, repackaged into the new creationism: IDT. Little thought needed, just macros in the PC or Mac containing the proper catch phrases.

Of course, they have NO agenda. They're just right.

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As reported by several papers in Texas, the board will rewrite the science curriculum next year and some observers expect backers of intelligent design to push for the theory's inclusion.

In interviews with The Dallas Morning News, 10 of the board's 15 members said they wouldn't support requiring the teaching of intelligent design. One board member said she was open to the idea. Four board members didn't respond to the newspaper's phone calls.

Notice the word requiring...

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Recently UK columnist Melanie Phillips (Daily Mail), realized Richard Dawkins leaps of faith in his worldview of atheism.

Dawkins now claims that Darwinism can also explain the origin of life.

"Phillips sees that science is not threatened but strengthened by entertaining the possibility of design - and that restricting the freedom of scientists to pursue this possibility is the real throwback to the Dark Ages."

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The Discovery Institute reports that for two years they have known that the Hollywood actor/critic/comedian/writer Ben Stein was making a film with a company called Premise Media that would inspect the controversy over Darwinian theory and intelligent design.

Premise Media put out a press release announcing the new film, which, it happens, will premier on Darwin's birthday, next February 12.

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An international science-and-education foundation is offering a $1,000,000 prize to anyone who can 'explain how genetic code arose spontaneously'.

The Origin-of-Life Foundation (OLF) is offering the prize through the Gene Emergence Project (MD, USA). This group is dedicated to finding the answer to what biology professor Jack Trevors (a member) calls the most pressing question in science, 'The origin of the genetic instructions in the DNA …', pointing out that 'Genetic instructions don't write themselves any more than a software program writes itself'.

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ScienceDaily reports that "a major surprise emerging from genome sequencing projects is that humans have a comparable number of protein-coding genes as significantly less complex organisms such as the minute nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Clearly something other than gene count is behind the genetic differences between simpler and more complex life forms."

"Increased functional and cellular complexity can be explained, in large part, by how genes and the products of genes are regulated. A University of Toronto-led study published in the latest issue of Genome Biology reveals that a step in gene expression (referred to as alternative splicing) is more highly regulated in a cell and tissue-specific manner than previously appreciated and much of this additional regulation occurs in the nervous system. The alternative splicing step allows a single gene to specify multiple protein products by processing the RNA transcripts made from genes (which are translated to make protein)."

This may be the most powerful evidence to date that evolution cannot be involved in the origin of biology. Lacking an explanation for the development of even a single protein-coding gene, how are evolutionists to explain the development of patterns of exons and introns and the regulatory machinery to permit their appropriate expression? Some of these alternative splicings, especially in the nervous system, permit the production of more than 10,000 alternative splicings from a single gene! And all of these are functional and are expressed and used ...and regulated! The regulation itself is another layer of information that was not accounted by those who think this all happened without a Mind.

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The trap-jaw ant moves its jaws at an amazing 145 mph, the fastest physical movement of any living creature.

Ain't natural selection wonderful?

See a movie on the ant, by clicking HERE.

Jeff Jacoby, on Aish.com, writes:

"Have you heard about the religious fundamentalist who wanted to teach physics at Cambridge? This would-be instructor wasn't simply a Christian; he was so preoccupied with biblical prophecy that he wrote a book titled Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John. Based on his reading of Daniel, in fact, he forecast the date of the Apocalypse: no earlier than 2060. He also calculated the year the world was created. When Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning," he determined, it means 3988 BC."

"Not many modern universities are prepared to employ a science professor who espouses not merely "intelligent design" but out-and-out divine creation."

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Sally Lehrman, in the Boston Globe, mentions that "intelligent design proponents claim that schools should do a better job of explaining evolution. They may very well be right. While people who believe in the scientific method do not accept the antievolution lobby's claim of 'irreducible complexity,' are they prepared with a coherent response?"

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ProgettoCosmo, An ID Web site from Italy, has published a list of the major problems of Darwin’s theory, in their view.

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Dr V.J.M. Silva writes an excellent pro-ID article in The Sri Lanka Daily News on the "Origin of Life in the Universe".

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