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Eighteen peer-reviewed scientific publications that support intelligent design

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The list of eighteen papers dated 2000 or later that support ID theory is here. (H/T Apologetics 315)

Here are some from the last two years:

  • Michael J. Behe, ‘Experimental Evolution, Loss-Of-Function Mutations and “The First Rule Of Adaptive Evolution”’, The Quarterly Review Of Biology, Volume 85, No. 4, December 2010
  • A.C. McIntosh, ‘Information and Entropy — Top-Down or Bottom-Up Development in Living Systems?,’ International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, Vol. 4(4):351-385 (2009)
  • William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II, ‘Bernoulli’s Principle of Insufficient Reason and Conservation of Information in Computer Search’, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Antonio, Texas (October 2009): 2647–2652
  • William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II, ‘Conservation of Information in Search: Measuring the Cost of Success,’ IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics A, Systems & Humans, Vol. 39 (5):1051-1061 (September, 2009)
  • William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II, ‘The Search for a Search: Measuring the Information Cost of Higher Level Search,’ Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.14, No.5, 2010, pp. 475-486
  • Winston Ewert, George Montañez, William A. Dembski, Robert J. Marks II, ‘Efficient Per Query Information Extraction from a Hamming Oracle,’ Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, IEEE, University of Texas at Tyler, March 7-9, 2010, pp.290-297
  • Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II, ‘Evolutionary Synthesis of Nand Logic: Dissecting a Digital Organism,’ Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. San Antonio, TX, USA – October 2009, pp. 3047-3053
  • Montañez G, Ewert W, Dembski WA, Marks II RJ (2010), ‘A vivisection of the ev computer organism: Identifying sources of active information’, BIO-Complexity 2010(3):1-6. doi:10.5048/BIO-C.2010.3

The blog post on ID.Plus has links to all the papers.

I did not see them mentioning Ann Gauger’s recent paper I blogged about a while back, as well as Doug Axe’s recent paper that I blogged about a while back.

Humor

Friday night funny: a conversation with a radical feminist

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Everybody likes Friday Night Funny, but no one ever sends me anything funny to post.

Well, I found this video on Jojo’s Facebook page: (some swearing)

This video summarizes almost everything I have ever said about feminism on this blog in two years.

I actually got into a debate with a feminist on Facebook over this video.

Here it is:

  • Feminist: If that video is done with its many straw men we could really use them to keep the crows away from the corn.
  • Wintery Knight: Hey, can you pick the absolute worst straw man out of your blanket statement and tell us about him? It really isn’t much help to make blanket statements like that since we have no reason to believe something that makes no specific claims.
  • Feminist: You’re right, blanket statements and broad generalizations are seldom helpful. A good example of this would be… Oh yes, the video.
  • Wintery Knight: Yes, we know you don’t LIKE it in the same way that I don’t LIKE liver and onions. But what specific factual claim do you think is mistaken, and what evidence do you have that this factual claim is mistaken?
  • Feminist: Not interested in going blow by blow. They’re consistantly silly claims and I’m sure you’ve debated this enough that we could go in circles for a long period of time.That said, liver and onions done well is delicious and I hope you’ll give it another shot.

That was it. If you guys want more funny stuff posted, you have to send me more funny stuff.

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News

New study finds that advantageous traits don’t easily infuse in populations

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A new study in Nature (September 30,2010) has found something interesting. (H/T WgButler777)

Excerpt:

Our work provides a new perspective on the genetic basis of adaptation. Despite decades of sustained selection in relatively small, sexually reproducing laboratory populations, selection did not lead to the fixation of newly arising unconditionally advantageous alleles. This is notable because in wild populations we expect the strength of natural selection to be less intense and the environment unlikely to remain constant for ~600 generations.”

Consequently, the probability of fixation in wild populations should be even lower than its likelihood in these experiments. This suggests that selection does not readily expunge genetic variation in sexual populations, a finding which in turn should motivate efforts to discover why this is seemingly the case.”

What does it mean?

It means that good traits that evolve in a single individual do not necessarily “take” in the entire population, so that will live on in successive generations. If the accumulation of beneficial mutations is required for Darwinism to create all of these new body plans and organ types, then what are we to make of the creative power of Darwinian mechanisms?

Read more about it here at Uncommon Descent.