Category: Andrew McDiarmid

01Feb 2023 by Post

By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism

addiction, Andrew McDiarmid, animals, Bible, Big Tech, Braveheart, characters, consciousness, Culture & Ethics, Dennis Prager, devices, Dogs, Eric Metaxas, Google, human exceptionalism, humans, Intelligent Design, Internet, Michael Medved, nature, New York Post, pets, plot, Sabbath, science, storytelling, Technology

That humans enjoy being made to wait seems to have been deliberately built into us. It’s unique in nature, an intelligent design. Source

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02Oct 2022 by Post

The Multiverse: From Epicurus to Comic Books and Beyond

Andrew McDiarmid, comic books, cosmology, Culture & Ethics, Epicurus, Hugh Everett, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Leonard Susskind, Marvel Cinematic Universe, multiverse, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, popular culture, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Andrew McDiarmid explores the roots of the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Source

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27Aug 2022 by Post

Paul Nelson: Listen to Nature for Her Answers

Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Caltech, experimentation, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, naturalism, Naturalistic Parabola, nature, Paul Nelson, Podcast, science, scientists, testing

If we listen and test, nature can keep revealing herself in surprising ways, which is what makes science so fun. Source

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23Aug 2022 by Post

Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design

Africa, Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, devolution, Evolution, human adults, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, ivory poachers, lactase persistence, Lehigh University, malaria, Michael Behe, mutation, tuskless elephants

In Africa, having the devolutionary mutation that leaves an elephant tuskless renders the creature of no interest to elephant-slaying ivory poachers. Source

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14Aug 2022 by Post

Paul Nelson: Freeing Minds Trapped in a Naturalistic Parabola

Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, materialism, naturalism, Naturalistic Parabola, parabola, Paul Nelson, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Podcast, scientists

Philosopher of biology Paul Nelson talks with host Andrew McDiarmid about pursuing intelligent design theory in a science culture committed to naturalism. Source

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16Jul 2022 by Post

The Gollum Effect in Science, from Tycho Brahe to Today

academia, Andrew McDiarmid, astronomers, autopsy, banquet, Darwinian theory, Evolution, evolutionists, Gollum, history, history of science, Intelligent Design, Johannes Kepler, Michael Keas, Physics, Earth & Space, science, Times Higher Education, Tycho Brahe, Unbelievable?

Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer, sat on his astronomical research for years, rather than sharing it with Johannes Kepler, his assistant. Source

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20Mar 2022 by Post

Günter Bechly: Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism

Andrew McDiarmid, Australopithecines, biology, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinian mechanism, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hominids, Human Origins, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Podcast, skull

Bechly touches on the oldest australopithecine fossil skull ever found, from 3.8 million years ago. Source

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14Aug 2021 by Post

Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond

abiogenesis, Andrew McDiarmid, Evolution, Fiction, first cell, Frankenstein, Neil Thomas, origin of life, re-animation, Skeptics, Taking Leave of Darwin

Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made. Source

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09Mar 2021 by Post

Evolution & ID in a Nutshell — Going Strong One Year On

Andrew McDiarmid, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Anderson, Evolution, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, Paul Chien, Robert Alston, Robert Waltzer, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Y. Lo, William Dembski

Andrew McDiarmid and Eric Anderson discuss both the praise and criticism the book has received. Source

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16Jan 2021 by Post

To Say the Lease, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism

altruism, Andrew McDiarmid, Culture & Ethics, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, genes, group selection, humans, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, kin selection, Love, non-kin, offspring, self-sacrifice, survival machines

Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection. Source

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