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If research clearly shows that the effects of natural selection and random mutation are limited, why do so many smart scientists still hold that Darwinism is the major force behind the development of life?

Intelligent design of this sort starts with a goal (which may well be refined or even abandoned along the way) and works top-down, with the designers using everything they know to guide their search for solutions to the design problems (and sub-problems, and sub-sub-problems …) they set for themselves. Evolution, in contrast, has no goals, no prede

universe that maximizes entropy, or minimizes free energy, at the fastest rate possible will evolve toward a state that is increasingly complex, organized, alive, and intelligent.

the steps leading to the transition from no-life to a living protocell: The synthesis and accumulation of small organic molecules, including amino acids and nucleotides. Phosphates are also important, given that they are the backbone of RNA and DNA. The joining of such ingredients into larger molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. The aggre

Complex products are not just arrangements of atoms that perform functions; rather, they are ordered arrangements of atoms that originated as imagination.

Selection in species with diverse cell types comes along with planned obsolescence

So, in one sense, the story arc of human history is, above all, the grand narrative of how humans have kept becoming part of a larger us, over and over again. The evolutionary biologist and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin saw this process, which he called ‘planetization’, as directly comparable to evolution – indeed, as an extension of it. Hu

DNA does not reproduce itself alone, of course, what is needed in addition to the monomeric nucleotides is a good number of enzymes to make the process possible. However, it is the structure of DNA that possesses in its design the information to organize the process.

creationists ask, rhetorically, “where does all the information in the DNA come from?” and Darwin’s answer is simple: it comes from the gradual, purposeless, nonmiraculous transformation of noise into signal, over billions of years.