Bad Design, or Ultimate Engineering? Two Views of Biology

Abby Hafer, aging, anatomy, arteries, bad design, biology, constraints, decay, Duke University, engineered systems, Engineering, European Space Agency, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary mechanism, foresight, Francois Jacob, fungi, genetic flaws, heart, Human Errors, human technology, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, joints, lubrication, Nathan Lents, reproduction, Richard Dawkins, Steven Vogel, suboptimal design, survival, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer, The Origin of Species, theistic design, tinkering, unintelligent design
An intelligent designer can employ foresight to envision a solution well beyond anything in existence at the time, and then set about making that a reality. Source
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Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

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Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Source
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 7, “Showed ID Is ‘Religious’ and a Form of ‘Creationism’”

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Is intelligent design actually religious? Is it a form of Christianity? We can immediately see that it is not. Source
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

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Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Source
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As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

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Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Source
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Charles Murray and Others Rediscovering God: No Accident of Timing

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, catechism, Charles Murray, ChatGPT, Christianity, Coming Apart, consciousness, cosmology, Faith & Science, faith and science, gospels, intellectuals, J.D. Vance, Joel Kotkin, Jordan Peterson, Justin Brierley, Losing Ground, media, New Atheism, Politics, Richard Dawkins, Richard Herrnstein, Taking Religion Seriously, The Bell Curve, UnHerd, universe
Not what you heard? Well, if you heard something else from traditional media, maybe those media aren’t so reliable any more. Source
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In Science, the Rising Power of Private Truth

Carole Hooven, Clarence Darrow, Colin Wright, common descent, Darwinists, Edward Larson, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary biology, folk beliefs, fundamentalism, gravity, Human Origins, Jerry Coyne, logic, New York Times, Parting Shot, private truth, public truth, reason, Richard Dawkins, scientific reasoning, Scopes Monkey Trial, Summer for the Gods, Tennessee, The Story of Testosterone, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan
Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason, and evidence. Source
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Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

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Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Source
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