Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- One Science and Religion
- Two Evolution as a Science
- Three Characters and Common Descent
- Four The Fossil Record
- Five The Roots of Mammals
- Six A Brief History of Elephants
- Seven Whales are no Fluke
- Eight Creationism
- Nine DNA And The Tree pf Life
- Ten DNA and Information “Creation”
- Eleven Biology and Probability
- Twelve Evolution, Education, and Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Ten - DNA and Information “Creation”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- One Science and Religion
- Two Evolution as a Science
- Three Characters and Common Descent
- Four The Fossil Record
- Five The Roots of Mammals
- Six A Brief History of Elephants
- Seven Whales are no Fluke
- Eight Creationism
- Nine DNA And The Tree pf Life
- Ten DNA and Information “Creation”
- Eleven Biology and Probability
- Twelve Evolution, Education, and Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Between my home and office, I’ve got a very good bike path. For the most part it takes me through farm fields, completely removed from any automotive competition. So listening to audio while biking does not, fortunately, greatly increase my risk of running into any traffic surprises. This has enabled me to listen to quite a few lectures and debates on the intersection of religion and science, the “controversy” surrounding intelligent design (ID), how some atheists view Charles Darwin as antagonistic to religion, and how certain theists view evolution as caustic to their beliefs.
In one such debate, part of an ongoing podcast called Unbelievable produced in the United Kingdom by Premier Christian Media, an advocate of ID articulated his view that Darwinian evolution cannot “create information”:
Randomness has never produced a single clump of information in the history of the universe. … Have we ever seen a new structure, or a single gene, come into existence by natural selection? I know of no empirical evidence, and I’ve been asking biologists for 10 years now.
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- Evolution and BeliefConfessions of a Religious Paleontologist, pp. 179 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012