Our Education Isn’t Free: Let’s Say “Thank You!” for It Together

Ann Gauger, biological origins, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science & Culture, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, editor, Education, Emily Reeves, Evolution, Evolution News, Granville Sewell, Günter Bechly, Heroes, Intelligent Design, Internet, John West, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Paul Nelson, readers, scholarship, science, Stephen Meyer, teachers, typos
The culture out there is the violent waves and stormy winds that oppose us, and would plunge us to the bottom of the sea if they could. Source
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In Critiquing Dembski, Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality

Ann Gauger, Arthur Hunt, bacterial flagella, biological structures, circular reasoning, Conservation of Information, design detection, Douglas Axe, Evolution, Günter Bechly, information, Intelligent Design, James Madison University, mathematics, mind, molecular machines, natural selection, Ola Hössjer, Panda's Thumb, probability space, Robert J. Marks, rotary motors, royal flush, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
Jason Rosenhouse, a mathematician who teachers at James Madison University, is the author of the recent book The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism. The purpose of the book is to discredit the mathematical and algorithmic arguments presented by ID proponents against the plausibility of undirected evolution crafting complex novelties. Rosenhouse focuses much of his critique on William Dembski’s design-detection formalism based on specified complexity. Dembski responded in detail to Rosenhouse’s arguments, highlighting Rosenhouse’s confusion over Dembski’s theoretical framework and its application to biological systems (here,here). Rosenhouse in turn responded to Dembski’s critique. His counter-response, published at Panda’s Thumb, reveals that his opposition to Dembski is not based on any flaws in the substance of Dembski’s work but instead on Rosenhouse’s unassailable faith in the limitless Read More › Source
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Fox News Article Shows Why Evolutionary Solutions to Adam and Eve Fail to Satisfy

Ann Gauger, Bible, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, Christianity, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Fazale Rana, Fox News, Francis Collins, Genealogical Adam and Eve model, Genesis, Homo heidelbergensis, Human Origins, In Quest of the Historical Adam, Jesus Christ, Jonathan McLatchie, Joshua Swamidass, methodological naturalism, myth, Nathan Lents, Ola Hössjer, Paul Nelson, reasons to believe, Salvo Magazine, scripture, TalkAboutDoubts.com, Terrell Clemmons, The Genealogical Adam and Eve, theistic evolution, theology, william lane craig
Is William Lane Craig’s book good news for Christians? I’m not so sure, and here’s one reason why. Source
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#3 Story of 2021: In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists on “Waiting Time” Problem for Coordinated Mutations

Ann Gauger, arthropods, Avalon explosion, binding sites, Cambrian Explosion, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0 research project, Intelligent Design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, marbles, mutations, nucleotides, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed literature, polynomial, regulatory regions, Springer, Stochastic Processes and Applications, tetrapods, vascular plants, waiting-time problem
The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Source
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The Year in Review: Three Major Advances for Intelligent Design

agnostics, Ann Gauger, atheists, biology, CELS 2021, Center for Science & Culture, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, ecological interactions, Engineering, Evolution, Günter Bechly, holism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Junk DNA, materialistic philosophy, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, Ola Hössjer, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, William Dembski
The situation resembles a poorly constructed dam holding back water that is continuously rising. Source
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Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, Annual Review of Genetics, apes, beta-globin, BioEssays, BioLogos, chimpanzees, Christianity, common ancestry, CRISPR, Dennis Venema, Evangelicals, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, functionality, Genealogical Adam and Eve, gorillas, hominids, Human Origins, In Quest of the Historical Adam, Intelligent Design, Jesus Christ, Joshua Swamidass, Junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, macaques, methodological naturalism, microRNA response elements, Nature (journal), Nature Reviews Genetics, Ola Hössjer, Paul Nelson, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pseudogenes, RNA (journal), Science Signaling, Springer, Theist Evolution, theology, william lane craig
To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve. Source
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Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, bottleneck, Calvin College, Christianity Today, Daniel Harlow, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, DNA, Evangelical Christians, Evangelicals, Evolution, evolutionary creation, evolutionary science, Faith & Science, Francis Collins, human origin, Human Origins, humans, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Joshua Swamidass, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Neal Conan, npr, Ola Hössjer, Queen Mary University, Richard Buggs, Science and Human Origins, Scientific consensus, Scot McKnight, The Language of God, theistic evolution, Trinity Western University, UniqueOriginResearch.com, william lane craig
The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Source
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Big Tech Wants to Control the Future; Here’s What We Can Do About That

1984, algorithms, Ann Gauger, Big Tech, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, censorship, Darwin’s Cancel Culture, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, dystopia, Emily Reeves, Evolution News, free speech, George Orwell, Günter Bechly, information, Intelligent Design, John West, Jonathan Wells, memory hole, Michael Behe, Ministry of Truth, News Media, Paul Nelson, scientists, Stephen Meyer
According to the Party slogan, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Source
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In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists Explore “Waiting Times” for Coordinated Mutations

Ann Gauger, arthropods, Avalon explosion, binding sites, Cambrian Explosion, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0 research project, Intelligent Design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, marbles, mutations, nucleotides, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed literature, polynomial, regulatory regions, Springer, Stochastic Processes and Applications, tetrapods, vascular plants, waiting-time problem
The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Source
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