NumberBuilder - Intelligent Design

• Kicking the Sacred Cow - especially the chapter about Life as Information Processing - and the section in that chapter about Confronting the Unthinkable - this contains a discussion about how there may be tons of unused genetic code libraries - which could cause a change in the expression of a genome (which I think is called the "phenotype") - without any change in the underlying code (which I think is called the "genotype".)  (BTW, I think this is the Lamarkian Theory of Evolution.)  Anyway, the upshot is that, when the environment changes, and we see dramatic changes in the fossil record (that seem to indicate a change in a specie), it could just be a change in the expression of the genetic code of the specie.  Check this out:
   

  Should this really be so strange? After all, at various levels above the genetic, from temperature regulation and damage repair to fighting or fleeing, organisms exhibit an array of mechanisms for sensing their environment and adjusting their response to it. The suggestion here is that the principle of sensing and control extends down also to the genetic level, where genes can be turned on and off to activate already-existing program modules, enabling an organism to live efficiently through short-term changes in its environment. Nothing in the genome changes. The program is set up for the right adaptive changes in the phenotype to occur when they are needed.

   We could probably test this by comparing the genetic code prior to the alleged speciation with the genetic code post the speciation.  Either way - a fascinating idea.  One quick example that comes to my mind is how animals adjust their fur covering to account for the temperature - i.e., they bulk up in the winter and then they shed in the summer.  Also, note: this site claims that the book is a work of fiction (somewhere, I think) - but the KTSC book is not written as a work of Sci-Fi - for example, there are a bunch of references to people who I consider to be "legitimate" pro-ID authors.  On the other hand, the main BAEN site seems to be totally devoted to science fiction stories.

• UncommonDescent – Misc. stuff about Intelligent Design - this is my favorite blogging site, also.
• OSU takes closer look at graduate student's dissertation Ohio State University seems to be pulling a switch-arooski on a ID-supporting doctoral candidate.
• Intelligent Design, disingenuous politics This is a short article, but it seemed pretty good.
• Intelligent Design the Future A large website with a bunch of links.
• The Gods must Be Tidy! This addresses the claim that we can infer the non-existence of a creative intelligence by noting the many instances of foolish / sub-optimal / repetitive, "designs" in nature.
• Do Centrioles Generate a Polar Ejection Force? This abstract suggests an "ID" way of understanding a link between cell reproduction & some forms of cancer. If you have 6 euros to spare, then you can read the whole story.
• CreationScience This is a great site about origins and Noah's Flood. I liked the analysis of the Woolly Mammoth discoveries. The author claims to have a PhD from MIT. He also makes a series of testable predictions. IMPORTANT: check this chart that compares the competing theories that are used to explain the specifics of the Woolly Mammoth discoveries.

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