Back to the Future with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Aeon, August Weismann, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, epigenetics, eugenicists, Evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, history of science, internal changes, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jessica Riskin, living things, Napoleon, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, Reign of Terror, Scientific American, seals, The Power of Life, Weismann barrier
Lamarck believed that “all living beings are constantly transforming themselves” and thus life forms shape their own evolution. Source
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Engineering Places Constraints on Cell Size that Evolutions Cannot Explain

ALH84001, Ana Garoña, artificial evolution, astrobiologists, biology, cell division, cell size, college students, cytoplasm, Engineering, enzymes, Evolution, fitness, genome, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, homeostasis, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, Jan M. Skotheim, lipids, Mars, meteorite, mutations, nucleic acids, PNAS, Portugal, proteins, senescence, Shicong Xie, Steve Laufmann, Target of Rapamycin, telephone booth, tennis balls, Volkswagen, yeast cells
Cells reach a Goldilocks size for their needs. Evolutionists are at a loss to say how cells hit the sweet spot for smooth functioning. Source
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Immanent Agency: It’s Evolution by Design, After All

agency, agency theory, Aristotle, Beyond Mechanism, bioelectricity, Biological Theory, biology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, cellular biology, cheetah, chemical stimuli, cognitive biology, Evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, fear, goal-directedness, heart, hunger, immanent design, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, kidney, libido, Little Gidding, living systems, materialistic paradigm, Michael Levin, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Pamela Lyons, Peter A. Corning, prokaryotes, science of purpose, Stuart Kauffman, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, T. S. Elliot, thirst
Agency theory as proposed certainly is not "magic," but it specifically invokes teleology within its operating framework. Source
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In NOVA Evolution Series, Biological Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

Adam Rutherford, African savannah elephant, animal kingdom, BBC, biology, bodies, cell's, Chris Packham, creator, Current Biology, David Coppedge, documentary, DoorDash, elephant trunk, elephants, Epistemology, Evolution, Evolution (TV series), gills, Harvard University, inventor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, lungs, mammals, Mary Droser, methodology, muscular hydrostat, musculature, mutations, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Noel Naughton, NOVA PBS, Peter Girguis, phylogenetic analysis, presuppositions, Richard Buggs, UC Riverside, __featured1
The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning. Source
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Independent Origins of Muscular Hydrostats Are Another Conundrum for Evolution

bending, biceps, biology, Biomimetics, brain software, chameleon, Current Biology, elephant, elephant trunk, Engineering, Evolution, hydrostat, Intelligent Design, King Jeroboam, muscles, muscular hydrostat, natural selection, Noel Naughton, octopus, octopus arm, physiology, snake, squid, triceps muscle, unbending
How does Professor Naughton explain this baffling similarity? He invokes the fallacy that a physical constraint compels natural selection to create a solution. Source
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NOVA on Evolution of Eating: Here’s the “Science,” Trust Me, Bro!

Animal Algorithms, appetite, bat guano, BBC, Chris Packham, cockroaches, designers, digestive system, Discovering Intelligent Design, documentary, Ediacaran biota, Engineering, enteric nervous system, Eric Cassell, eric hedin, Evolution, Evolution (TV series), evolutionary faith, gill arches, gill filaments, Good, hunger, imagineering, Intelligent Design, magic, Metaspriggina, NOVA PBS, Richard Buggs, Steve Brusatte, Technology, through-gut, Ultimate Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Venus flytrap, waste, workspace
There is only a compelling story, beautifully illustrated with plenty of AI imagineering and more scientists testifying to their evolutionary faith. Source
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How to Shift the Gears in Your Legs?

actuators, anatomy, automatic transmission, bike riders, Biomimetics, bones, engineers, Evolution, gear-shifting, gears, handlebar, human motion, Intelligent Design, Jack A. Martin, joints, legs, ligaments, locomotion, muscles, offices, paraplegics, physics, physiology, PNAS, redundancy, robot designs, tendons, unguided evolution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, walking
The answer to the question: You don’t have to do anything. You have automatic transmission. Source
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Unlike the BBC, NOVA’s Evolution So Far Prefers Insinuation to Outright Atheism

blind evolution, Chris Packham, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, denials, ear bones, elephant, Evolution, Evolution (TV series), evolutionary biologists, Faith & Science, federal funding, food, insinuation, Intelligent Design, NOVA PBS, PBS, philosophy, plausible deniability, podcasters, Richard Buggs, scientific evidence, theists, theology
I find the clear statement of what you’re trying to convey at least more honorable than always leaving room for future denials as needed. Source
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Back in the Saddle: A Second Edition for The Design Inference

Being as Communion, biological evolution, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, cancer, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, design inferences, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, My Personal History with Information (series), new york, No Free Lunch, peer-review, Rowman and Littlefield, Terence Moore, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert
The big obstacle for me came from feeling at odds with my publisher, Cambridge University Press. Source
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Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Computational Sciences, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, Evolution, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, Intelligent Design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Source
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