Behe, Meyer, and Lennox: Evidence for Design Is Growing

academia, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, faith and science, Fiesole, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, intentional design, Italy, John Lennox, mathematics, Michael Behe, Peter Robinson, physical world, Podcast, science, scientific method, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, universe
Peter Robinson sits down with Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Stephen Meyer, three leading voices in science on the case for an intelligent designer. Source
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West: Why We Can’t “Just Make Peace with Darwin”

bioethics, Charles Darwin, Cleveland, corrosiveness, Culture, Darwinism, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, Eric Pianka, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, humans, John West, life, mankind, misanthropy, molecular biologists, political scientists, Sean McDowell, self-hatred, The Lyceum, University of Texas
Watch this and then ask a Darwinist friend if he or she can think of one way that the evolutionary perspective has ennobled or uplifted anyone. Source
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New Book Makes the Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Adam and, Brian Miller, Catechism of the Catholic Church, creator, death, Discovery Institute Press, disease, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, Father Martin Hilbert, Father Michael Chaberek, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, J. Budziszewski, Jay W. Richards, Roman Catholic Church, Suffering, theistic evolution, theology
Fr. Martin Hilbert explains why the theory of intelligent design, rightly understood, harmonizes perfectly with the Catholic theological tradition. Source
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Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

blind spot, capillaries, cephalopod, choriocapillaris, Douglas Futuyma, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, George Williams, human eye, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Losos, Kenneth Mason, Kenneth Miller, Nathan Lents, optic nerve, oxygen, photocell, photoreceptor cell, retina, retinal pigment epithelium, Richard Dawkins, Richard Young, Susan Singer, The Blind Watchmaker, toxins, vertebrate
Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution. Source
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Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

Anthropic Principle, black holes, computing systems, cosmic reproduction, cosmogony, Cosmological Natural Selection, cosmology, elements, Evolution, evolutionary theory, fusion reactors, Intelligent Design, intelligent life, Jay Richards, Jeffery Shainline, Lee Smolin, life, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, niobium, particle accelerators, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, scientific discovery, silicon, stars, superconductivity, Technology, The Privileged Planet, universes
I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Source
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Assuming Design, Researchers Achieve a Breakthrough in Understanding Circulatory System

age, BIO-Complexity, biology, blood, blood vessels, circulatory system, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Gheorghe Pop, Gregory Sloop, heart, hematocrit, Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, Intelligent Design, John St. Cyt, Medicine, Netherlands, Radboud University Medical Center, red blood cells, Reductionism, Research, researchers, shear stress, sports anemia
The authors also explain how the standard evolutionary framework misdirected earlier researchers. Source
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Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

accommodationism, Andreas Wagner, biological complexity, biology, convergence, Evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fine-tuning, fitness landscapes, flora and fauna, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, Ockham’s razor, preconditions, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, science, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), William Dembski
If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Source
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Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

biologists, biology, Charles Darwin, complementarity, Evolution, evolutionary theory, flagellum, genotype, head, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, males, meiosis, middle piece, mitosis, modifications, Podcast, reproduction, sex, sexual reproduction, sperm cells
Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it? Source
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The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

anomalies, BioEssays, biology, brain function, dogma, epigenetic information, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary theory, function, gene regulation, genes, genetic programming, geochemical anomalies, inheritance, Intelligent Design, John Mattick, Junk DNA, molecular biology, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, RNA genes, Thomas Kuhn, transgenerational memory
RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Source
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