Three Realities Chance Can’t Explain That Intelligent Design Can

Apple iPhones, cars, College Physics, computers, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Evolution, evolutionists, Intelligent Design, jet airplanes, Michael Behe, nuclear power plants, origin of life, Peter Urone, physics, self-replicating machines, unintelligent forces
The argument for ID could not be clearer: Unintelligent forces cannot rearrange atoms into computers and airplanes and nuclear power plants and smartphones. Source
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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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C. S. Lewis Unmasks the Pretensions of SETI

Arecibo Message, Arecibo telescope, Argument from Reason, Artificial Intelligence, Beacon in the Galaxy, Cambridge University, chess, computer games, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, intelligent ETs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John West, Jonathan Jiang, Martin Rees, Matthew Sparkes, Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, METI, Physics, Earth & Space, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Stephanie Pappas, Stephen Hawking, The Magician’s Twin, Voyager Golden Records, Voyager spacecraft
How can METI / SETI advocates repudiate intelligent design while depending on the design inference for their work? Source
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Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America

assisted suicide, beauty, COVID-19, Creativity, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, death, embryo, Enlightenment, ethics, euthanasia, Evolution, free speech, ingenuity, intelligence, John West, Medicine, New York Times, physicians, racehorse, speech, Terri Shiavo, theology, totalitarian science, unborn
The afterword, on “Totalitarian Science,” published in 2015, shows John West as a prophet of things to come. Source
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Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species

Alana Chin, axial leaf, biology, Christopher Stockey, coastal redwoods, Darwinism, design reasoning, Evolution, grasshoppers, Intelligent Design, Joel, leaf types, Life Sciences, lions, mammals, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, narrative gloss, Northern California, Old Testament, Orthoptera, peripheral leaf, photosynthesis, Sequoia sempervirens, teeth, trees, UC Davis
If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar? Source
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David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism

A Short History of Mathematics, A Tour of the Calculus, analytic philosophy, Center for Human Exceptionalism, Center for Science & Culture, Columbia University, Culture & Ethics, Darwinism, David Berlinski, differential topology, Evolution, Holocaust, human nature, Humanize, mathematics, Newton’s Gift, philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, Podcast, Princeton University, systems analysis, The Advent of the Algorithm, The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions, The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements, theoretical biology
We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought. Source
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Will Earth BioGenome Project Vindicate Darwin?

agriculture, Big Data, bioindustry, biology, Canis familiaris, chihuahua, China, conservation, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwinism, Earth BioGenome Project, ecology, eukaryotes, Evolution, genomes, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Mark Blaxter, mastiff, Medicine, Paul Chien, phylogenetics, PNAS, sequencing, species, Sweden, United States
Compare the latest project to sequence everything to other megaprojects that may or may not answer evolutionary questions. Source
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Weikart: Hitler’s “Might Is Right” Ethic Drawn from Darwinism

Adolf Hitler, alt-right, Aryan race, blacks, California State University Stanislaus, Center for Science & Culture, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, Evolution, history, Holocaust, Jews, John West, Nazis, neo-Nazis, Nordic race, Racism, Richard Weikart, Slavs, webinar, Whoopi Goldberg
Historian Richard Weikart moves into a discussion of neo-Nazis, contemporary white nationalists, and the alt-right. Source
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