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Evolution and the Origin of Biological Information
Dennis Venema begins this series by summarizing a key Intelligent Design belief: that if we see specified information, we infer design because we are unaware of a mechanism that can bring about specified information in the absence of intelligence. In each subsequent part of the series, Venema shows why this argument is wrong. Venema presents evidence to show that natural mechanisms can, in fact, explain the origin of new information. He reminds his readers, however, that this does not in any manner exclude God from the process.
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Evolution and the Origin of Biological Information, Part 1: Intelligent Design
One prominent antievolutionary argument put forward by the Intelligent Design Movement (IDM) is that significant amounts of biological information cannot be created through evolutionary mechanisms – processes such as random mutation and natural selection.
The Origin of Biological Information, Part 2: E. Coli vs. ID
An experiment with this level of detail might sound too good to be true, but one of exactly this sort has been going on since the late 1980s, studying the bacterium, E. Coli. It’s called the Long Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE)
The Origin of Biological Information, Part 3: CSI on Steroids
Bringing an ancient gene back to life starts with determining what its DNA sequence was. While researchers usually don’t have direct access to ancient DNA, we have the next best thing.
The Origin of Biological Information, Part 4
Are all proteins so connected? If evolution has produced the diversity in protein form and function that we observe today, this pattern should be common.
The Origin of Biological Information, Part 5
Far from being rare exceptions, multiple lines of genomics evidence point to new structures, functions and information being produced through natural means.
The Origin of Biological Information, Part 6
Of interest for our purposes here is the simple realization that a relatively small number of subtle genetic changes undergird the large biological differences we observe between humans and chimpanzees.