Stephen Meyer needs your help!

Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute will soon pulbish another ID book on the Cambrian explosion.

Since nothing new in ID (ID-news is a joke, ID = God did it.), we hope semone may help poor Stephen with his book. Stephen Meyer is of about the same caliber as Casey Luskin who have writen a lot about the second law of thermodynamics because the 2LOT is evidence that evolution is impossible, evolution  would be a 'violation of the 2LOT'.

I won't make any arguments abotu the 2LOT here, excpet to say that as far as I can tell,  the 2LOT simply is an expression of what it implies to use energy. To perform work, any kind of physical work, energy is needed. As soon as all free energy (at the location in question) has been 'consumed', furher activity is impossible.

Since we live at a place where there are rich soruces of free energy available wherever we look, there is plenty of room for arguing Luskin's claims but that doesn't belong here.

But a fine post regarding the Cambrian is available at the Pandas Thumb here: 

 Stephen Meyer needs your help

A little quote from there:
 
"Modern hagfish are craniates, they’re not true vertebrates. The oldest known true vertebrate is Arandaspis, a jawless fish, from the Ordovician, 480-70 Mya, some 50 million years after the early Cambrian. The first jawed fish (gnathostomes) appear in Late Ordovician (less than 461 Mya.)
So it took 70 million years after the Cambrian “explosion” for their Intelligent Designer to put a jaw on a vertebrate. 70 million years is a heck of a long time to design a jaw, considering that it’s just a modified version of the rib bones that separate a fish’s gills. A real intelligent designer could have come up with that in an afternoon."

Origins of life

Origins of life is not a subject I bother much with; I don't see no need for that. I accept the fact that we have life on this planet, and it would have to be a very strange world indeed if it was the result of divine intervention. Because I do not believe in fairytales about talking snakes and crazy Gods.

But I have an interest in the subject, in that I like to know about new research findings and results.  In due time, if there is a solution, 'we' are going to find it. Even if we may not be able to recreate the exact path, recreate the entire sequence of events played out.

Sandwalk, about Origin of Life.

Creationists are so funny!

One would think that YEC creationism (The Earth was created ~6000 years ago, there were dinosaurs on the ark & much more) and Intelligent Design creationism (Evolution is ok, it just needs a little help from God sometimes) are as incompatilble as can be.

But that is not the case, in 2009 YEC creationist Lita Cosner of CMI wrote a REVIEW of
the 2004 published book Why Intelligent Design Fails" and concluded "... that 'there was nothing in the book to cause discomfort to an “informed creationist"

Jeffrey Shallit and Wesley R. Elsberry wrote a chapter in WIDF and responds to Cosner's review in the link above. Read Elsberry's response here: Why Intelligent Design Fails.

Life Deep Within Oceanic Crust Sustained by Energy from Interior of Earth

There is a tendency to view planet Earth as created to be a solid platform for life. But that is not the case.
The planet initially was most inhospitable and badly suited for higher life forms. It didn't have a breathable atmosphere,  and many of the properties of our planet we take for granted are in fact the product of an extended period of chemical processes - with the eventual introduction of "primitive" life forms, i.e. single celled; bacteria.

How life created the Earth's atmosphere

Life made Earth habitable.

Instead of me trying to explain things, it is better that I provide links for sources to speak for themselves. I learn a little more myself in the process, I often know what to look for but may be ignorant about the details. Would be funny if it wasn't so; a non-professional can't be expected to know the details of all the fields upon which all the scientific exploration of the fascinating four billion years of planet history rest.

I first learned about an got interested in this particular field when I read books by James_Lovelock

I don't think we need take the 'Gaia hypothesis' too seriously. I don't think it is intended as anything but a metaphor to convey the concept of interdependence; life on the planet is a veritable "machine" where all the parts, even the most humble and seemingly insignificant plays a crucial role. And the planet itself is an active partner as well. We live on a habitable planet, we have a habitable planet because there is life on the planet. Without life, the planet would not be habitable! At least not for higher life forms, say, like the one we belong to...

 

What, no comments?

I don't have many readers and that is ok, but I just wonder, why is there not a single comment?

I am curious about who may have read this blog, how they happened to get here, and if they found anything of interest?

I have not been able to spend much time on making the blog more attractive, visually or contentwise, I only wish it could be better but I am afraid there isn't much to be done about that at present.

 

Wiley Online Library

Research such as referenced in the article from the Wiley online library

quoted below, would that be possible from the viewpoint of Intelligent Design?

If god did it, what's the use?

“quite contrasting evolutionary origins” doesn’t seem to fit with the ID perspective, suggesting that the ID perspective is the product of cataracts in the eyes?

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… An analysis of cross-inoculation experiments suggests that the resistance is often the product of pathogen specialization. Understanding the contrasting evolutionary origins of resistance is critical for studies on the genetics and evolution of host–pathogen interactions in human, agricultural, and natural populations. Research on human infectious disease using animal models may often study resistances that have quite contrasting evolutionary origins, and therefore very different underlying genetic mechanisms. …

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Home schooling in the USA

Not even in the USA, all Christians are creationists. But th USA scores pretty low on statistics of science vs. creationism.

But there is hope, 
 
Home schooling in the USA