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16May 2023 by Post

Jonathan McLatchie on Classic Examples of Irreducibly Complex Systems

bacterial flagellar motor, biology, Boston, cell division, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, DNA replication, Evolution, evolutionary biology, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, likelihood ratio, materialists, molecular bioscience, Sattler College

Dr. McLatchie explains the “likelihood ratio” of the evidence for irreducible complexity, a top-heavy ratio he says strongly supports a design hypothesis. Source

12May 2023 by Post

Joseph L. Graves as the “Black Darwin”? Think Again

A Christmas Carol, A Voice in the Wilderness, academia, African Americans, anti-racism, Atheism, BioLogos, cave rats, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Charles Lyell, Crustacea, Culture & Ethics, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, history, Human Zoos, J. D. Dana, Jackie Robinson, John West, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Kool-Aid, Louis Agassiz, racial stereotypes, Racism, The Voyage of the Beagle, theistic evolution, Victorian England, Yale University

Darwin could never be considered the kind of anti-racist activist Graves makes him out to be. Source

21Apr 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

arthropods, begging the question, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, Darwinists, Evolution, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday, fossil record, holochroal eyes, immunization, just-so stories, materialists, Molière, opium, paleontology, phylogeny, pseudoscience, schizochroal eyes, Stephen Meyer, trilobites

The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Source

17Dec 2022 by Post

Stephen Meyer and Company Answer Questions about Science and Faith

Cambridge University, Chance and the Sovereignty of God, Culture, Darwin's Doubt, Discovery Institute, evolutionary biology, faith, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, John West, Jonathan McLatchie, New York Times, Newcastle University, Podcast, Redeeming Mathematics, Redeeming Philosophy, Redeeming Science, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sattler College, science, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess, University of Strathclyde, Vern Poythress, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, Westminster Theological Seminary

The conference was jointly sponsored by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture and Westminster Theological Seminary. Source

16Aug 2022 by Post

Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

biology, Clarence Williams, Denis Noble, developmental genetics, DNA, embryo, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, fruit fly, Gerd Müller, horse, horse fly, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Wells, Neo-Darwinism, Oxford 50, Raju Pookottil, Royal Society, science, Susan Mazur, Third Way of Evolution, Why Evolution Is True, Zombie Science

No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Source

29Apr 2022 by Post

Physicist Explains: Why Scientists Play It Safe

academics, conformity, deltas, Evolution, evolutionary biology, graduate students, Intelligent Design, Nobel Prize, Paul M. Sutter, Physics, Earth & Space, Research, risk, safety, science, scientists, Stony Brook University, tenure, toadying, Undark

On evolution and other subjects, this promotes a stale conservatism, well suited to defending orthodoxies. Source

22Oct 2021 by Post

Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cadillac, cars, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, chromosome 2, common ancestor, common features, Elon Musk, Evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tree, Francis Collins, fusion event, Genome Research, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, historical sciences, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Matti Leisola, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Meyer, Tesla, University of Cambridge

Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Source

17Sep 2021 by Post