2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (453+ words) Yes, the lizard brain is an old favorite of pop psychology. For example, did you know that your lizard brain “fuels overthinking and social anxiety”? The claim that we have a reptilian brain underlying our human one is a staple…...

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…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (361+ words) The misquote stemmed from a passage in a court ruling [C. W.] Howell “mistakenly” read as a direct quote from Behe and attributed as such, he told us. What Howell did was not “misquote” Behe. He fabricated a quote. An example of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (373+ words) Editor’s note: C. W. Howell’s Designer Science has been pulled by its publisher, NYU Press. See, “Scholarship Hits the Fan: Designer Science Now Gone from Multiple Sites.” There are some genuine positives that deserve mention. As I’ve already noted, the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (284+ words) We have been looking at Christoph Adami’s book, The Evolution of Biological Information. We are presently going through Chapter 4, “Experiments in Evolution.”We come now to a section that covers the history of artificial life. Artificial life, or ALife, refers…...