Denis Noble – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

31Dec 2025 by Post

No. 2 Story for 2025: My Conversation with Denis Noble About Intelligent Design

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In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Source

11Dec 2025 by Post

Third Way Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

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Things were peachy until the late 20th/early 21st century, when some biologists began to acknowledge that neo-Darwinism had a glaring explanatory deficit. Source

15Sep 2025 by Post

Two Peer-Reviewed Papers Apply Behe’s “Darwin Devolves” Thesis to Cancer

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One day in the mid 2010s, Ann Gauger and I received a message that an ID-friendly scientist was in town and wanted to meet us. Source

09Aug 2025 by Post

Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble

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While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Source

31Jul 2025 by Post

My Conversation with Denis Noble and Perry Marshall About Evolution and Intelligent Design

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In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Source

22Jul 2025 by Post

A Century After the Scopes Trial, Censoring Spirit on Evolution Still Thrives

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From evolutionists, a surge of persecutions has included tenure denials, job blacklisting, and speech codes. Source

14May 2025 by Post

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

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I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Source

21Feb 2025 by Post

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

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A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Source

10Jul 2024 by Post

Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

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We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Source

01May 2024 by Post

Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

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I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Source

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