15Nov 2021 by Post

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, bottleneck, Calvin College, Christianity Today, Daniel Harlow, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, DNA, Evangelical Christians, Evangelicals, Evolution, evolutionary creation, evolutionary science, Faith & Science, Francis Collins, human origin, Human Origins, humans, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Joshua Swamidass, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Neal Conan, npr, Ola Hössjer, Queen Mary University, Richard Buggs, Science and Human Origins, Scientific consensus, Scot McKnight, The Language of God, theistic evolution, Trinity Western University, UniqueOriginResearch.com, william lane craig
The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Source
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12Nov 2021 by Post

Traditional or Not? Assessing William Lane Craig’s Model on Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, Aeon, Annual Review of Anthropology, Bernard Wood, brain size, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, chimpanzees, Denisovans, DNA, Donald Johanson, Evolution, Evolutionary Anthropology (journal), Faith & Science, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo sapiens, Human Origins, In Quest of the Historical Adam, Joshua Swamidass, Lucy, Mark Collard, Middle Pleistocene, most recent common ancestor, Neanderthals, nonhuman hominins, paleontology, pseudogenes, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Science (journal), total energy expenditure, william lane craig
I’m having trouble making sense of exactly what his model holds. And it seems I’m not alone. 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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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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19Aug 2021 by Post

Meyer in the Jerusalem Post: Farewell to the Purposeless Cosmos

Africans, atheists, causal circularity, Charles Murray, computer code, DNA, Douglas Murray, faith, Faith & Science, First Cause, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerusalem Post, Jordan Peterson, molecular machines, New Atheists, New New Atheists, Phil Torres, Privileged Planet, Return of the God Hypothesis, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, supernatural, Tom Holland
From living in South Africa for more than four years, I got a good sense of African perspectives on atheism. Source
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18Aug 2021 by Post

In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists Explore “Waiting Times” for Coordinated Mutations

Ann Gauger, arthropods, Avalon explosion, binding sites, Cambrian Explosion, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0 research project, Intelligent Design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, marbles, mutations, nucleotides, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed literature, polynomial, regulatory regions, Springer, Stochastic Processes and Applications, tetrapods, vascular plants, waiting-time problem
The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Source
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11Aug 2021 by Post

Meyer: Did a Student’s Challenging Question to Dean Kenyon Spark the Modern ID Movement?

biological information, biologists, Cambridge University, chemical evolution, chemical forces, Dallas, Dean Kenyon, DiscoveryU, DNA, Education, Intelligent Design, origin of life, San Francisco State University, self-organization, Stephen Meyer
Stephen Meyer discusses theories, like Kenyon’s, that seek to account for the information in DNA by reference to chemical forces alone. Source
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