What science really looks like versus the ruling Darwinist paradigm
THE NCSE is an organization devoted to censoring information that supports Creationism or Intelligent Design. It is an insult to the collective intelligence of the American people that tax dollars are devoted to censors like Eugenie Scott and her cohorts....those of her ilk...which sounds more sinister? That one. Good science is based on evidence and does not limit the scope of investigation because of religious viewpoint. One day we will expose the inanity of Darwinism and go back to real science in every area instead of teaching fairy tales. A new link on my link pages is a site that proves that censorship and prejudice and bullying is alive and well in the 21st Century. NCSE Exposed!
I am going to praise an organization that is in no way connected to any Creationist or Intelligent Design or Darwinist or any other -ist. This organization is simply attempting to do science. I know a number of ID and Creationist websites/organizations that are doing good science without the Darwin censors standing over them and you can look and find many of them on my links section. I excerpt or reprint articles from several sites, making my readers well aware of them and the information one can obtain from them. However, this time I am mentioning a site unconnected to Creation Science or ID. These people are unusual in that they have no affiliation with any ID or Creation-oriented sites and yet they are willing do do real science!
Within their disciplines, plenty of scientists are involved in operational science where Darwinism is totally irrelevant. In fact, the only operational science that involves Darwinism is, well, I cannot think of one. Only historical and fantasy operatives use and need Darwinism. It is not in any way relevant to actual rubber-meets-road testing or analysis.
The secular organization that is treating origins science like SCIENCE is the...
lifeorigin.info
Have you noticed that there are authors from all camps listed here? Stanley Miller and Stephen C. Meyer in the same book list? How can this be? Because this organization is not being driven by worldview, they are genuinely offering a way for scientists to come up with a plausible theory of life coming from non-life and they are not going to accept any just-so stories. My hat is off to them! Here is the main question:
It is also instructive to read their "ABOUT" describing who they are:
I think it is fair to say that this secular scientific organization has thrown down the gauntlet to Darwinists. Before you can publish any more cladograms and make any more ludicrous claims about how organisms "adapted" by never-revealed magic wandish means, come up with a way that life could have formed on Earth. I have often been chided for not understanding where the current study of abiogenesis is going and I can put that rumor to rest. It is here at this site where any researcher worth his salt who has done anything of significance will present his or her information. You will note that no one has claimed the prize. Read the requirements and consider just how big a jump it is from mud to molecular machine. Then think again about the massive jump required to go from bacteria to other forms of life. I suspect it would be easier for the cow to actually jump over the moon...heck, do backflips over the moon wearing a blindfold!
For you Christians out there that are so quick to adopt Theistic evolution, you really should think that one over. Why would God use a cruel process of millions of years of death and struggle to produce a creation He said He made "good" in six days? Better that Christians open their eyes to the fairy-tale nature of Darwinist claims before agreeing with any one of them. Would God make a simple one-celled organism, set it loose and see if it evolved into anything worthwhile? Is that logical? Do men build a house by tossing a two-by-four onto an empty lot? There is nothing about Darwinism that is consistent with the God of the Bible and there is nothing about Darwinism that is consistent with operational science and there certainly is nothing about Darwinism that fits into the scientific method, for every time it has been tested it has failed the test. It only lives on as blind faith propagated by those who will seek for any refuge that does not include God, no matter how pathetic or unreasonable.
The minimal requirement of this organization would not quite get us all the way to life, as they are not integrating fully the meta-information required into the question, so that the kind of life that would be proposed by a successful applicant would be quite a bit short of the mark of the life that is found on our planet today. I thought it would be good for readers to understand the immensity of the task for primordial ooze to make itself into a living being of the simplest kind. Statistically speaking it cannot happen. But this particular site will give you a chance at trying...Including all of you Darwinist scientists named Steve!
Silly Darwinist! Natural selection is for already-formed organisms! It is a part of the design for the promotion and preservation of the kinds of organisms designed by God from the beginning. Natural selection works with pre-existing information within the genome to select the features that are most likely to survive in a particular environment. This is why we have Polar Bears and Sun Bears. This is why we have speciation, because it is the result of a vast amount of information being coded into the cell in DNA. Speciation did not create organisms, it is a quality of the organism or a process associated with organisms. Darwinists have been labeling speciation as "evolution" for years but it is time to call them out on their lies.
150 plus years of opportunities to prove Darwinism. 150 plus years to find an organism that is gaining and adding information to its DNA string by means of mutation. 150 plus years of fruit flies and bacteria and billions of dollars and billions of hours spent fruitlessly. Small pun. Darwinism is built on suppositions made long before we understood much about organisms or the catastrophic nature of the sedimentary rocks or the actions of techtonic plates or the conditions necessary to form an ice age or the driving force behind the concept of Darwinism. The world did not understand that Darwinism was religious rather than scientific in nature. It is slowly beginning to realize that it has in fact been had.
I am going to praise an organization that is in no way connected to any Creationist or Intelligent Design or Darwinist or any other -ist. This organization is simply attempting to do science. I know a number of ID and Creationist websites/organizations that are doing good science without the Darwin censors standing over them and you can look and find many of them on my links section. I excerpt or reprint articles from several sites, making my readers well aware of them and the information one can obtain from them. However, this time I am mentioning a site unconnected to Creation Science or ID. These people are unusual in that they have no affiliation with any ID or Creation-oriented sites and yet they are willing do do real science!
Within their disciplines, plenty of scientists are involved in operational science where Darwinism is totally irrelevant. In fact, the only operational science that involves Darwinism is, well, I cannot think of one. Only historical and fantasy operatives use and need Darwinism. It is not in any way relevant to actual rubber-meets-road testing or analysis.
The secular organization that is treating origins science like SCIENCE is the...
The Gene Emergence Project ®
of The Origin-of-Life Science Foundation, Inc. ®
Allow me to present two of the pages that the site presents to visitors interested in the million dollar prize offered.
lifeorigin.info
Suggested texts
Submitters may find helpful the following background readings from varied perspectives, presented in chronological order:
Schroedinger, E. What is Life? (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955)
Donald M. MacKay. Information, Mechanism and Meaning (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1969)
Jacques Monod. Chance and Necessity (New York: Knopf, 1971)
Leslie E. Orgel. The Origins of Life: Molecules and Natural Selection (New York, John Wiley, 1973)
Stanley L. Miller and Leslie E. Orgel. The Origins of Life on Earth (Eaglewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1974)
R. W. Hamming. Coding and Information Theory (Englewood Cliffs, Prentice- Hall, l980)
M. Kimura. The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, Roger L. Olsen. The Mystery of Life's Origin (Dallas: Lewis and Stanley, 1984)
A. G. Cairns-Smith. Seven Clues to the Origin of Life (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Freeman Dyson. The Origins of Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) Now second edition, (1999).
Robert Shapiro. Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth (New York: Summit Books, 1986)
John Maynard-Smith. The Problems of Biology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)
Bernd-Olaf Küppers. Information and the Origin of Life (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990)
Cyril Ponnamperuma and F. R. Eirich, Editors Prebiological Self-Organization of Matter (A. Deepak Publishing: Hampton, VA, 1990)
Christian De Duve, Blueprint for a Cell:The Nature and Origin of Life (Burlington, NC: Patterson, 1991)
Hubert P. Yockey. Information Theory and Molecular Biology, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
H. J. Morowitz. Beginnings of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992)
Cyril Ponnamperuma and Julian Chela-Flores. Chemical Evolution: Origin of Life Proceedings of The Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life, 26-30 October, 1992 (Hampton, VA: A Deepak Publishing, 1993)
Walter James ReMine. The Biotic Message (Saint Paul, MN: St. Paul Science, 1993)
Stuart A. Kauffman. The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
David W. Deamer and Gail R. Fleischaker. Origins of Life: The Central Concepts (Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1994).
Periannan Senapathy. Independent Birth of Organisms (Madison: Genome Press, 1994).
Julian Chela-Flores, Mohindra Chadha, Alicia Negron-Mendoza, Tairo Oshima, Editors. Chemical Evolution: Self-organization of the Macromolecules of Life Proceedings of The Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life, 25-29 October 1993 (Hampton, VA: A. Deepak Publishing, 1995)
John H. Holland. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1995)
Christopher G. Langton. Artificial Life: An Overview (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995)
Stuart Kauffman. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Christian De Duve, Vital Dust--Life as a Cosmic Imperative (New York: Basic Books, 1995)
Syozo Osawa, Evolution of the Genetic Code (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Lynn Margulis and D. Sagan. 'What is Life' (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1995)
Rizzoti (ed.): 'Defining Life' (Padua, Italy: University Padua Press, 1996)
Geoffrey Zubay. Origins of Life on the Earth and in the Cosmos (New York: WCB/McGraw Hill, 1996)
Michael J. Behe. Darwin's Black Box, (New York: The Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 1996).
Julian Chela-Flores and Francois Raulin. Chemical Evolution: Physics of the Origins and Evolution of Life, Proceedings of the 4th Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution, Trieste, Italy, 4-8 September 1995 (Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996)
Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch. Steps Toward Life: A Perspective on Evolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Dean Overman. The Case Against Accident and Self-Organization, (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997)
Christoph Adami. Artificial Life (New York: Springer-Telos, 1998)
William A. Dembski. The Design Inference, in Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction, and Decision Theory. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Noam Lahav. Biogenesis: Theories of Life's Origin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
André Brack. The Molecular Origins of Life: Assembling the Pieces of the Puzzle (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Michael Gross. Life on the Edge (New York: Plenum Press, 1998)
John Maynard Smith. Shaping Life: Genes, Embryos, and Evolution (UK, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1998; U.S., Yale University Press, 1999)
James P. Ferris, Editor. Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, Papers presented at the 1996 ISSOL Meeting in Orleans, France. Volume 28, Nos.4-6 October 1998 (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998)
Martin J. Medhurst and John Angus Campbell, Editors Rhetoric & Public Affairs (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, Vol 1, No 4, Winter 1998 Entire issue)
Fred Hoyle. Mathematics of Evolution (Memphis, Tenn: Acorn Enterprises, 1999)
John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary. The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origins of Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Gesteland, R. F., Cech, T. R. & J F. Atkins, eds. The RNA World (Plainview, 2ND Edition, (NY: Cold Spring Harbor Lab. Press, 1999)
Werner R. Loewenstein. The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Hans Kuhn and Horst-Dieter Forsterling. Principles of Physical Chemistry (England: Wiley Press, 1999) pp 880-921; see also p 953
Gyula Palyi, Claudia Zucchi, Luciano Caglioti (Eds.) Advances in BioChirality., (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999)
Freeman Dyson. The Origins of Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Second Edition, (1999)
David J. Buller (Ed.). Function, Selection and Design (State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y., 1999
David Berlinski. The Advent of the Algorithm: the Idea That Rules the World (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2000)
Iris Fry. The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview (N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000)
L Kay. Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code (Stanford: Stanford Univeristy Press, 2000)
Richard Sole and Brian Goodwin. Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology (New York: Basic Books Persius, 2000)
Stuart Kauffman. Investigations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada. The Spark of Life, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Persius, 2001)
Gyula Palyi, Claudia Zucchi, Luciano Caglioti (Eds.) Fundamentals of Life, (Paris: Elsevier, 2002)
William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch, (New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)
Henry Harris, Things Come to Life: Spontaneous generation Revisited, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002)
J William Schopt, Ed, Life's Origin: The Beginnings of Biological Evolution, (Ewing, N. J., Univer. of California Press, 2002)
Tom Fenchel, Origin and Early Evolution of Life (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003)
Marcello Barbieri, The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology (Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Tibor Ganti, The Principles of Life (Oxford, UK, Oxford Unversity Press, 2003)
Nancy Forbes, Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing (MIT Press, 2004)
Clive Trotman, The Feathered Onion - Creation of life in the Universe (John Wiley and Sons, 2004)
Fazale Rana & Hugh Ross, Origins of Life (NavPress, Colorodo Springs, CO, 2004)
William Day, How Life Began, Marvin Solit, Foundation for New Directions,
Hubert P. Yockey, Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Robert M. Hazen, Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin (Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C.2005)
Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart: The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2005)
Samir Okasha: Evolution and the Levels of Selection (Clarendon Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006)
R Jastrow and M. Rampino: Origins of Life in the Universe (Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 2008)
Donald E. Johnson: Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability: A Call to Scientific Integrity (Booksurge Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2009)
Steven C. Meyer: Signature in the Cell (Harper Collins, New York, NY, 2009
Deamer, D., Stoszak, J.W.: Origins of Life (Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y, 2010
Have you noticed that there are authors from all camps listed here? Stanley Miller and Stephen C. Meyer in the same book list? How can this be? Because this organization is not being driven by worldview, they are genuinely offering a way for scientists to come up with a plausible theory of life coming from non-life and they are not going to accept any just-so stories. My hat is off to them! Here is the main question:
Purpose of the Prize
"The Origin-of-Life Prize" ® is being offered to stimulate research into chaos, complexity, information, probability, self-organization, and artificial life/intelligence theories as they relate directly to biochemical and molecular biological reality. The Foundation wishes to encourage the pursuit of natural-process explanations and mechanisms of initial "gene" emergence within nature. The subject of interest is the genesis of primordial functional information itself rather than its physico-chemical matrix of retention and transmission. Bioinformation fits into the category of "prescriptive information" ("instruction," rather than mere probabilistic combinatorics [Abel, 2000]). By what mechanisms do stochastic ensembles acquire instructive/integrative potential? In other words, what are the processes whereby random biopolymeric sequences self-organize into indirect, functional code?
Central questions of interest relate to the definition and nature of "genetic instructions" and "biomessage." Is genetic recipe adequately represented and described by "mutual entropy" (shared, correlative uncertainty between transmitter and receiver)? At what point and by what processes do "biofunction" and "biosystem" enter into the chemical evolution of bioinformation?
What is a reasonable, empirically-accountable definition of "minimal life"?
How does nature's genetic programming achieve such long sequences of highly functional decision-node selections?
Genes are linear, digital, quaternary decision-node strings. Nucleotide selections represent four-way algorithmic switch-settings. These switch-settings are covalently-bound into primary structure. The string's specific sequence precedes secondary and tertiary folding. Folding results from forces such as hydrogen bonding, charge attractions/repulsions, and hydrophobicity. These forces are much weaker than the covalent binding that has already determined sequence. Folding space is primarily constrained by this pre-existing nucleotide sequencing. Ultimately, the algorithmic programming instantiated into the nucleotide-selection sequence determines biofunction.
The problem is that natural selection works only at the phenotypic level, not at the genetic level. Neither physicochemical forces nor environmental selection choose the next nucleotide to be added to the biopolymer. Mutations occur at the genetic level. But environmental selection occurs at the folding (functional) level, after-the-fact of already strongly set sequence, and after-the-fact of already established algorithmic function of the folded biopolymer.
By what mechanism did prebiological nature set its initial algorithmic switch-settings to program the first few (RNA?) genes?
How was RNA folding function anticipated when covalently-bound primary structure was forming?
Suppose a self-replicative oligoribonucleotide analog sequence occurred spontaneously out of sequence space. How did this self-replicative strand simultaneously anticipate folding needs for metabolic utility? Any evolution toward folding fitness would tend to mutate the sequencing away from self-replicative fitness. What was the bridge between both functions? How could random mutations simultaneously contribute to both disparate functions?
How did so many biochemical pathways get integrated into one coherent, unified, and sophisticated metabolic process?
About The Gene Emergence Project
The Gene Emergence Project is one of the programs of The Origin-of-Life Science Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)3 science and education foundation with corporate headquarters near NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center just off the Washington, D. C. Beltway in Greenbelt, MD. 113 Hedgewood Drive, 20770-1610 Fax 301-441-8135
The Origin-of-Life Science Foundation should not be confused with "creation science"or "intelligent design" groups. It has no religious affiliations of any kind, nor are we connected in any way with any New Age, Gaia, or "Science and Spirit" groups. The Origin-of-Life Science Foundation, Inc. is a science and education foundation encouraging the pursuit of natural-process explanations and mechanisms within nature. The Foundation's main thrust is to encourage interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research projects by theoretical biophysicists and origin-of-life researchers specifically into the origin of genetic information/instructions/message/recipe in living organisms. By what mechanism did initial genetic code arise in nature? The primary interest of The Gene Emergence Project is to investigate the derivation of functional monomeric sequencing at the rigid covalent-bond level. This must occur prior to any selection for phenotypic fitness.
Fitting with the project's highly interdisciplinary nature, its advisors include biochemists, molecular biologists, biophysicists, information theorists, artificial life and intelligence experts, exo/astrobiologists, mathemeticians, and origin-of-life researchers in many related fields. Please feel free to e-mail or write us opinions, advice, and critiques, particularly of the tentative rules themselves. We are developing as broad and as deep a root system within the scientific community as possible.
The Foundation believes that advisors' personal metaphysical persuasions are none of our business. Science is about "How?" Questions addressing "How?" are about mechanism. As a science foundation, we are interested in models of mechanism consistent with naturally-occuring biochemical phenomena and sound information theory. We welcome as advisors competent scientists from widely respected universities and laboratories around the world whose interest and experience extends to origin-of-life queries.
We believe the judging is at least as critical a question as the audited financials underwriting of the Prize. The decision of whether to award the Origin-of-Life Prize ® must rest not with the Foundation, but with the most internationally respected origin-of-life researchers themselves in accordance with the published rules and requirements. Scientists' votes on any given submission will be independently audited the same as the Foundation's financial position.
The Foundation welcomes tax-deductible donations to be used for the promotion of scientific inquiry into the origin of genetic prescriptive information (instruction).
The Board of Directors consists largely of administrators/fundraisers rather than life-origin bench scientists. Judging of the Prize is to be done by the scientific community itself, not by the Foundation. No one at the Foundation has a vote on any submission.
Board of Directors of The Origin-of-Life Foundation, Inc. include
Morris W. Hedge, Chairman; Mathematician/Computer Scientist, recently retired from the Department of Defense, Fort Meade, MD
Reginald C. Orem, Vice Chairman, Retired Educator, College Park, MD
Paul L. Abel, Secretary; Owner, "We Train Computers," Columbia, MD
George Stephens, Ph.D., Teller of Elections, retired Maryland University professor, Adelphi Md.
Dr. David L. Abel, Treasurer; Theoretical Biology; ProtoBioCybernetics and BioSemiotics; Life-origin research specifically into the emergence of initial genes; Director, The Gene Emergence Project, Greenbelt, MD
Chris Esh, Ph.D. Caldwell, Idaho
Sue E. Meeks, CEO, Integrated Financial Analysts, LTD., Potomac, Va.
I think it is fair to say that this secular scientific organization has thrown down the gauntlet to Darwinists. Before you can publish any more cladograms and make any more ludicrous claims about how organisms "adapted" by never-revealed magic wandish means, come up with a way that life could have formed on Earth. I have often been chided for not understanding where the current study of abiogenesis is going and I can put that rumor to rest. It is here at this site where any researcher worth his salt who has done anything of significance will present his or her information. You will note that no one has claimed the prize. Read the requirements and consider just how big a jump it is from mud to molecular machine. Then think again about the massive jump required to go from bacteria to other forms of life. I suspect it would be easier for the cow to actually jump over the moon...heck, do backflips over the moon wearing a blindfold!
For you Christians out there that are so quick to adopt Theistic evolution, you really should think that one over. Why would God use a cruel process of millions of years of death and struggle to produce a creation He said He made "good" in six days? Better that Christians open their eyes to the fairy-tale nature of Darwinist claims before agreeing with any one of them. Would God make a simple one-celled organism, set it loose and see if it evolved into anything worthwhile? Is that logical? Do men build a house by tossing a two-by-four onto an empty lot? There is nothing about Darwinism that is consistent with the God of the Bible and there is nothing about Darwinism that is consistent with operational science and there certainly is nothing about Darwinism that fits into the scientific method, for every time it has been tested it has failed the test. It only lives on as blind faith propagated by those who will seek for any refuge that does not include God, no matter how pathetic or unreasonable.
The minimal requirement of this organization would not quite get us all the way to life, as they are not integrating fully the meta-information required into the question, so that the kind of life that would be proposed by a successful applicant would be quite a bit short of the mark of the life that is found on our planet today. I thought it would be good for readers to understand the immensity of the task for primordial ooze to make itself into a living being of the simplest kind. Statistically speaking it cannot happen. But this particular site will give you a chance at trying...Including all of you Darwinist scientists named Steve!
Silly Darwinist! Natural selection is for already-formed organisms! It is a part of the design for the promotion and preservation of the kinds of organisms designed by God from the beginning. Natural selection works with pre-existing information within the genome to select the features that are most likely to survive in a particular environment. This is why we have Polar Bears and Sun Bears. This is why we have speciation, because it is the result of a vast amount of information being coded into the cell in DNA. Speciation did not create organisms, it is a quality of the organism or a process associated with organisms. Darwinists have been labeling speciation as "evolution" for years but it is time to call them out on their lies.
150 plus years of opportunities to prove Darwinism. 150 plus years to find an organism that is gaining and adding information to its DNA string by means of mutation. 150 plus years of fruit flies and bacteria and billions of dollars and billions of hours spent fruitlessly. Small pun. Darwinism is built on suppositions made long before we understood much about organisms or the catastrophic nature of the sedimentary rocks or the actions of techtonic plates or the conditions necessary to form an ice age or the driving force behind the concept of Darwinism. The world did not understand that Darwinism was religious rather than scientific in nature. It is slowly beginning to realize that it has in fact been had.