Darwin’s Black Box – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

05Feb 2024 by Post

Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty

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Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals. Source

22Dec 2023 by Post

Co-Option and Protein Homology Don’t Explain the Evolution of the Flagellum

author, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, Brian Miller, co-option, coordination, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Emily Reeves, Evolution, evolutionary models, flagellar assembly, flagellar function, H. Allen Orr, indirect evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, mental agent, Michael Behe, Nicholas Matzke, protein homology, proteins, Rope Kojonen, Stephen Dilley, synchronization, T3SS, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), Type 3 Secretory System

Rope Kojonen wants to join “design and evolution,” but only by setting aside some of the main features of the flagellum. Source

19Sep 2022 by Post

Behe Answers Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity

Alvin Plantinga, bacterial flagellum, biology, blind evolution, blood clotting cascade, Darwin's Black Box, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, Lehigh University, molecular machines, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, Podcast, science

Following the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Pat Flynn says that some of the attacks on Behe have been hysterical, but some have been more thoughtful. Source

24Aug 2022 by Post

Michael Behe Debates Evolution and Catholicism

biology, Catholicism, common descent, Creation, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian mechanisms, devolution, elephants, Evolution, faith, Faith & Science, grizzly bears, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Lehigh University, Matthew Ramage, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, polar bears, Pope Benedict XVI, secondary causation, skepticism, theology

Dr. Behe says that his skepticism toward neo-Darwinism stemmed purely from his scientific research. Source

18Jan 2022 by Post

Eugenie Scott Lecture Resurrects, Spreads Misinformation on Intelligent Design

academic freedom, American Museum of Natural History, baraminology, biology, Cambridge University Press, cats, creationist, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, explanatory filter, free speech, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Leslie Orgel, Michael Behe, Michael J. Katz, misinformation, persecution, Richard Sternberg, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Smithsonian Institution, specified complexity, Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns, The Origins of Life, UC San Diego, William Dembski, Young Earth Creationism

There often seems to be a subtext to her remarks, as if she were telling her audience: “Go forth and persecute.” Source

29Sep 2021 by Post

The Stop Lights in the Cell

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Even a cell needs laws and enforcers. When the enforcers don’t do their jobs, crime increases in cities and in cells. Source

14May 2021 by Post

Study Challenges Evolutionary Relationship Between Flagellum and Type III Secretory System

ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, Cell (journal), Darwin's Black Box, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Evolution, Howard Ochman, human technology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jiaxing Tan, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover, last bacterial common ancestor, Michael Behe, molecular machines, motors, Nature Reviews Microbiology, New Scientist, propeller, pumps, rotary engine, Salmonella, Sophie S. Abby, T3SS, University of Arizona

There are various types of flagella, but all function like a rotary engine made by humans. Even non-ID scientists marvel at the complexity of these machines. Source

25Dec 2020 by Post

Reuben’s Story — A Light in Troubled Times

Atheism, biochemistry, biology, Center for Science & Culture, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, Education and Outreach Initiative, encouragement, Foresight (book), Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Marcos Eberlin, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, purpose, Summer Seminars, United Kingdom, YouTube videos

"Methodological naturalism is a very depressing thing to be told is the truth," says an 18-year-old correspondent. "Your work may have saved my life." Source

08Dec 2020 by Post

“Compelling,” “Thorough”: Biochemist Russell Carlson on Behe’s Mousetrap

A Mousetrap for Darwin, biochemistry, biology, blogs, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, critics, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, Evolution, Intelligent Design, journals, Michael Behe, natural selection, newspapers, random mutation, Russell W. Carlson, The Edge of Evolution, University of Georgia

"Over the years Behe has received a mountain of criticism, all of which has been answered by him in letters to the editors of journals, newspapers, and blogs." Source

04Dec 2020 by Post

Biologist Raymond Bohlin on Behe’s Mousetrap: “This Collection Is a Treasure”

A Mousetrap for Darwin, biological origins, critics, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, Ray Bohlin, The Natural Limits to Biological Change

Says biologist Raymond Bohlin, the book is a "gift to anyone passionately interested in biological origins and the debate over Darwinism and design." Source