29Dec 2021 by Post

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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25Sep 2021 by Post

The Design Connection in Biological Tracking Systems

anatomy, antibiotics, biology, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, environmental conditions, Evolution, evolvability, information, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, neo-Darwinian evolution, physiology, sensors, switches, technological innovation, timescales, tracking systems, waiting times, Zoltan Szallasi
If organisms resulted from haphazard undirected processes, their design constraints would be few and highly flexible. Source
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24Sep 2021 by Post

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

adaptive mechanisms, aluminum soils, analyzers, biology, biophysicists, cave fish, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, dog breeds, Engineering, engineering model, environmental conditions, evolutionary theory, gene regulatory network, gulls, hair, Harold Garner, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, John Fondon, Laridae, Life Sciences, maize, Midas cichlids, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, Ralf Sommer, sodium, temperature, yeast
Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Source
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31Aug 2021 by Post

Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

adaptation, anatomy, artificial limbs, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design logic, Engineering, engineers, environment, Evolution, fitness, fitness landscape, fur color, genes, genotype, height, Intelligent Design, living systems, micro air vehicles, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, operational parameters, physiology
The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Source
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23Aug 2021 by Post

End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

biology, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Derek Gatherer, DNA, emergence, Evolution, evolutionary mechanism, Intelligent Design, John Thomas, Michael Behe, Michel Morange, P. A. Braillard, Pam Mantri, proteins, Reductionism, Stephen Meyer, stigmergic teleology, synthetic biology, Systems Biology
A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Source
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