ASA Book Discussion

“Future experiments will continue to show that RNA catalysts lack the capacities necessary to render the RNA-world scenario plausible.”

Meyer presents another set of predictions that relate to the “structure, organization, and functional logic of living systems.” This is the first of four predictions in this field.

Several chapters of the book are devoted to analyzing proposed origin-of-life . . . → Read More: ID Prediction #3

“Informational accounting will reveal that sources of active information are responsible for putatively successful computer-based evolutionary simulations.”

This is closely related to the first prediction, extending it to the realm of computer simulations of evolution as well as the real world of physical processes. The idea is that even a computer program designed to imitate evolution by . . . → Read More: ID Prediction #2

“No undirected process will demonstrate the capacity to generate 500 bits of new information starting from a nonbiological source.”

This prediction relates to the causal powers of materialistic mechanisms. It is derived from the primary claim of ID which, according to Meyer, is that information, in particular complex specified information, can only be generated by an intelligent . . . → Read More: ID Prediction #1