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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 09 > origin-of-life-the-fundamental-challenge

Origin of Life: The Fundamental Challenge

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…...

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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 09 > that-was-fast-from-lifes-origin-to-cyanobacteria-in-a-billion-years

From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years

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…...

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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 09 > evolutionary-origin-of-information-the-problem-of-robustness

Evolutionary Origin of Information: The Problem of Robustness

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (355+ words) Adami presents experiments done using the Avida platform in a series of papers. They increased mutation rate to high levels and found that the evolving Avida programs were able to adapt to a high-mutation rate environment. The genomes were adapted…...

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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 09 > protocell-pretensions-the-illusion-of-progress-in-origin-of-life-research

The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research

1+ week, 2+ 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…...

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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 09 > evolution-of-new-genes-the-big-if

Evolution of New Genes: The Big “If”

1+ week, 3+ 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…...

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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 09 > evolutionary-models-reward-complexity-for-complexitys-sake

Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (319+ words) From an intelligent design perspective, this means they lack information. In order to exhibit information, the enzymes and metabolites would have to display specified complexity. But when just about anything is accepted, there is no specificity. Such models reward undifferentiated…...

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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 09 > the-non-binary-delusion-a-biologists-attempt-to-escape-reality

The Non-Binary Delusion: A Biologist??€??s Attempt to Escape Reality

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1035+ words) But no. According to Berkowitz, “Biological sex is as nuanced as gender.” He’s written a whole book about it. The thesis is in the title: The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes. As he explains in…...

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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 08 > origin-of-biological-information-nope-just-its-recycling

Origin of Biological Information? Nope, Just Its Recycling

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…...

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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 08 > avida-and-making-eye-evolution-seem-plausible

Avida and Making Eye Evolution Seem Plausible

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…...

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scienceandculture.com > 2026 > 08 > dave-farina-misunderstands-behes-darwin-devolves

Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

3+ week, 1+ 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…...