Longevity and Intelligent Design

This is the first in a series of blogs that will explore super longevity, human evolution, and Intelligent Design.

Will people routinely live to be 150, 200, 250+ years old?  There are indications of new approaches that forecast dramatic increases in human longevity.

Will we finally understand the origin of life?  Living cells are made up of complex machines that can be programmed by operators.

It makes sense that decoding the authorship of our genetic code will lead to a better understanding of what works and fails (survivorship-wise) in the processing of information by cell factory systems.  Here we will explore the emerging connections between cosmogony, particle physics, and cell biology.

Our understanding of the fundamental concepts of time, energy, matter and human evolution are changing rapidly in step with the on-going exponential increase in computing power.  In the past scientists have looked at matter and energy as carriers of information.  Now we see that arguments can be made that they are information.

 “Rebooting the Cosmos: Is the Universe the Ultimate Computer?” is a video of a knowledgeable panel of scientist discussing a new theory of information at the World Science Festival.

The premise is that all matter can be thought of in terms of information.  Not just represented by information, but fabricated from and constructed of information.  Physics today is a fascinating field with the quest for the Higgs Bosun and advances in string theory and gravitation and the new paradigm of the origin of the universe in cosmogony—all fueled by advances in information theory.

 

“A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram” is another video from the World Science Festival that presents exciting new ideas in cosmology.

However, Intelligent Design proponents propose that the long established Dawinian concept of evolution through natural selection is insufficient to explain the origin of life itself and are searching for alternative explanations for the “irreducible complexity” of cell systems as described by Michael J. Behe in his two important books, The Edge of Evolution and Darwins Black Box and by Stephen C. Meyer in his seminal Signature in the Cell which are available on Amazon. ID proponents point to the remarkable process  metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly as an example of an incredibly complex sequence of events that lack intermediary steps with selective value.  This video by Illustra Media briefly describes the process.

We have just begun to set the foundation upon which super longevity, evolution and Intelligent Design interact.  More to come...