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17Jun 2021 by Post

Meyer: Is Intelligent Design Incompatible with Thomism?

Catholicism, Center for Science & Culture, cosmic fine-tuning, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, ID The Future, Pat Flynn, philosophers, philosophy, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, universe

Pat Flynn and Stephen Meyer also discuss the beginning of the universe and the fine-tuning of the cosmos for life. Source

16Jun 2021 by Post

Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning for Scientific Discovery

Anthropic Principle, David Berlinski, designer, earth, fine-tuning, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, laws of nature, Michael Denton, scientific discovery, scientific majority, scientists, stalemate, universe

The reason this evidence of “fine-tuning for discovery” is so satisfying to me is not just because it defeats the anthropic principle. Source

15Jun 2021 by Post

“Trust the Scientists”? The World Catches Up with Intelligent Design

drug companies, Intelligent Design, Marcia Angell, New England Journal of Medicine, researchers, Richard Horton, scientists, Sharyl Attkisson, skepticism, The Lancet

There is no substitute for independent thinking about science, whether you hold a science PhD or not. Source

13Jun 2021 by Post

Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

bioethics, biotechnology, birth, Caesarean birth, China, Culture & Ethics, IVF embryos, Joseph Fletcher, Journal of Medical Ethics, mammals, Medicine, rats, The Ethics of Genetic Control, uterine transplants, uterus

Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Source

12Jun 2021 by Post

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” Is Not Alone: Gaps Everywhere!

abominable mystery, animal phyla, Big Bangs, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Critical Transitions in Nature and Society, Darwin's Doubt, discontinuities, Ediacaran fauna, Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, fossil record, Marten Scheffer, Nelson Cabej, paleontologists, Princeton University Press, Spinosa Award, Stephen Meyer, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, undersampling

There is clearly a pattern of discontinuities that requires an adequate explanation, and Darwinism is not it. Source

11Jun 2021 by Post

Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

archaea, bacteria, biogeography, biology, Biology Direct, cell's, discontinuity, Douglas Theobald, embryology, Eugene Koonin, eukaryotes, Evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, Intelligent Design, mathematics, mechanisms of evolution, paleontology, phyla, protein folds, rafting, Theistic Evolution (book), transitional forms, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry, viruses

For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Source

10Jun 2021 by Post

Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

Alvin Plantinga, complex specified information, computer program, Darwinian evolution, eyes, God and Other Minds, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Lydia McGrew, minds, philosophers, purpose, purposeful arrangement, spandrels, specified complexity, specified small probability, Stephen Meyer

A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Source

09Jun 2021 by Post

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

ARF, Audrey Hepburn, bioethics, Center for Genetics and Society, China, Culture & Ethics, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, Intelligent Design, ISSCR, Jin-Soo Kim, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Medicine, Nature (journal), scientists, Seoul National University, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Source

08Jun 2021 by Post

Life Fights Entropy with Intelligent Design

A. E. Wilder-Smith, Albert Weixlbaumer, bacterial flagella motor, Brownian motion, Dominic J. Skinner, entropy, flagellum, footrace, human embryonic kidney cells, Intelligent Design, Jannik Ehrich, John Bechhoefer, Jörn Dunkel, Kevin Thurley, Michael W. Webster, microtubules, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, PNAS, Science (journal), Simon Fraser University, Surajit Chatterjee

Consider: the best minds in science and engineering are trying to approach the capabilities of bacteria. Source

07Jun 2021 by Post

The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?

Andrew Newberg, anthropology, brain, brain imaging, compassion, correlates, fMRI, infused contemplation, materialism, Medicine, mystical union, neurology, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurotheology, Prayer, psychology, spiritual experience

Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat. Source

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