28Apr 2022 by Post

Investigating the Evidence for Intelligent Design — in Biochemistry and Other Fields

amino acid sequences, biochemistry, biology, codes, DNA, Douglas Axe, Evolution, Experience, genetics, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, language, molecular machines, mutational sensitivity, observation, paleontology, physics, protein sequences, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), William Dembski
Irreducible complexity and high CSI systems are found, indicating these systems were designed. Source
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23Apr 2022 by Post

Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

abrupt appearance, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Crossway, Darwinism, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, paleontology, Podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry
Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Source
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22Apr 2022 by Post

Darwinists Seek to Explain the Eye’s Engineering Perfection

airy nothings, biology, bipolar cells, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, consensus, Current Biology, Dan-Eric Nilsson, Darwinian theory, David Berlinski, Doubts About Darwin, Engineering, Evolution, inevitability, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, light-sensitive spot, Neil Thomas, photoreceptors, retina, Richard Dawkins, The Design Revolution, Thomas Woodward, Tom Baden, vertebrate eye, visualization
First, they turn evolution into an engineer. Personification is a common ploy by Darwinists. Source
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17Apr 2022 by Post

Luskin, Shapiro: Has Intelligent Design Waned?

academic freedom, Adam Shapiro, biology, biology teachers, Casey Luskin, conferences, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary theory, free speech, Geology, graduate students, high school, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Justin Brierley, Law, New York Times, News Media, Nobel laureates, peer-reviewed literature, Research, Science and Religion (book), scientific reasoning, scientists, teaching, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Unbelievable?
Shapiro suggests that ID often amounts to a presenter highlighting an amazing feature in biology and then giving glory to God. Source
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15Apr 2022 by Post

How Plants Talk When We’re Not Around

anesthesia, associative learning, biology, Claude Bernard, communications, consciousness, fungi, gene expression, glutamate, Hailing Jin, heliotropism, Life Sciences, Mimosa pudica, miRNAs, nervous system, Neuroscience & Mind, plants, psychology, Rainer Hedrich, RNA, sensory hair, shameplant, TMAO, Venus flytrap, vernalization, worms
One genuine surprise in recent decades has been the discovery that plants have nervous systems like animals. Source
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13Apr 2022 by Post

Frankenstein and His Offspring

abiogenesis, Aristotle, biology, cryogenic freezing, Evolution, Frankenstein, Funny Man: Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Harold Urey, Intelligent Design, Mary Shelley, Mel Brooks, movies, origin of life, panspermia, Patrick McGilligan, satire, Stanley Miller, Svante Arrhenius, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series), Young Frankenstein
"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Source
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