Kantian Naturalist brought up the subjects of autopoesis and organizational closure whereby biological systems maintain a distinctive form while being thermodynamically open. Not only do they ac...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/the-inevitability-of-life-and-consciousness/
This past Friday, I bumped into Dr. Michael Behe, and again on Saturday, along with Drs. Brian Miller (DI), Research Coordinator CSC, and Robert Larmer (UNB), currently President of the Canadian ...
In my research, I have recently come across the self-assembling proteins and molecular machines called nano-machines one of them being the bacterial flagellum… Have you ever wondered what mecha...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/self-assembly-of-nano-machines-no-intelligence-required/
Suppose Max comes to you with a sealed but clear container consisting of two separate chambers with two visible certified thermometers mounted on the sides of the two chambers. Thermometer one re...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/maxs-demon-a-design-detection-riddle/
Given the importance of information theory to some intelligent design arguments I thought it might be nice to have a toolkit of some basic functions related to the sorts of calculations associate...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/dice-entropy-a-programming-challenge/
The basic biochemistry textbook I study from is Lehninger Prinicples of Biochemistry. It’s a well regarded college textbook. But there’s a minor problem regarding the book’s Granville-Sewel...
In the “Elon Musk” discussion, in the midst of a whole lotta epistemology goin’ on, commenter BruceS referred to the concept of a “Boltzmann Brain” and suggested that Boltzmann didn’t...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/boltzmann-brains-and-evolution/
In the “The Disunity of Reason” thread, Mung suggested that “the typical non-theist will insist that organisms are machines, including humans.” And there is a long tradition of mechanisti...
Featured threads ought to be featured because of their content, not because their content suppresses dissent. The amazing sudden disappearance of the Feature posts here at TSZ is puzzling.
Granville Sewell, who needs no introduction here, is at it again. In a post at Uncommon Descent he imagines a case where a mathematician finds that looking at his problem from a different angle s...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/what-is-obvious-to-granville-sewell/
Some may have wondered why me (a creationist) has taken the side of the ID-haters with regards to the 2nd law. It is because I am concerned for the ability of college science students in the disc...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/2lot-and-id-entropy-calculations-editorial-corrections-welcome/
Here is an online creationist/ID book. From http://www.ccel.us/gange.app.html#App “I was particularly pleased with Dr. Gange’s refusal of the idea of materialism, and the convincing arguments...
From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_entropy In statistical mechanics, configuration entropy is the portion of a system’s entropy that is related to the position of its constit...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/configuration-and-configurational-entropy/
"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/a-designed-objects-entropy-often-increseas-with-its-complexity/
I’ve just started reading it, and was going to post a thread, when I noticed that Phinehas also brought it up at UD, so as I kind of encouragement for him to stick around here for a bit, I thou...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/wolframs-a-new-kind-of-science/
Granville Sewell is at it again. Today (Thanksgiving Day in the USA), he posted at UD, a video about his disagreement with the scientific establishment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMXR6PqG...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/serving-up-sour-grapes-for-thanksgiving/
ID proponents and creationists should not use the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics to support ID. Appropriate for Independence Day in the USA is my declaration of independence and disavowal of 2nd Law a...
As much as I hate to drive any traffic to Uncommon Descent, Granville Sewell has clarified his misunderstanding of the Second Law there recently. Of particular note is his response to the argumen...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/granville-sewell-doubles-down/
Bob Lloyd, professor emeritus of chemistry at Trinity College Dublin, wrote an opinion article in Mathematical Intelligencer (MI) commenting on Sewell’s not-quite-published AML article. This wa...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/granville-sewell-vs-bob-lloyd/
…is the title of Granville Sewell’s manuscript that almost got published in Applied Mathematics Letters last year. It was withdrawn at the last minute by the editor, but you can still downloa...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/a-second-look-at-the-second-law/
Granville Sewell’s argument that evolution does so, therefore evolution must be caused by intelligence, rests on the odd assertion that intelligence (our own, for instance) does violate the 2Lo...
http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/does-intelligence-violate-the-2lot/
Granville Sewell has a video up on YouTube: Mark Chu-Carroll has a take-down of the argument here, but I’d be interested to know what the ID proponents who post here make of it. It seems to m...