Evolution – Page 19 – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

02Mar 2025 by Post

Casey Luskin: Intelligent Design, Islamic Edition

biology, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Dan Stern Cardinale, Evolution, Faith & Science, feathered crocodile, geologists, Intelligent Design, interviews, Islam, Junk DNA, life, Muslims, purposeful agency, Rutgers University, stereotypes, Subboor Ahmad, Wesam Almahd, YouTube channels, YouTube videos

Much of the focus is on the “junk DNA” argument against ID, but stay tuned for the amusing case of Dr. Dan Stern Cardinale and the feathered crocodile. Source

28Feb 2025 by Post

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

Andreas Wagner, biology, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, Engineering, environment, Evolution, flatworms, frogs, George F. R. Ellis, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, Life Sciences, material world, materialism, mathematics, Max Tegmark, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysterian, mysticism, naturalism, numerosity, philosophies, physical world, planarian flatworms, Platonism, Platonists, preprint, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, spooky, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg

Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Source

27Feb 2025 by Post

Meaning and Purpose from a Darwinian Process?

Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinian process, Emily Reeves, Evolution, evolutionary process, How Life Works, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, living systems, machine metaphor, Meaning, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, universe, work

Dr. Emily Reeves looks at the top sources of meaning in life, including religion, relationships, and work, and evaluates the evolutionary view of each. Source

26Feb 2025 by Post

New Paper Examines How the Complexity of Glycan Structures Points to Intelligent Design

BioCosmos, biology, carbohydrates, cell adhesion, Complexity, dGRNs, endoplasmic reticulum, epigenetic factors, Evolution, glycans, glycopatterns, glycosylation, glycosyltransferases, Golgi apparatus, immune responses, intelligent causes, Intelligent Design, kidney cells, nerve cells, probabilistic resources, proteins, Russell Carlson, signaling, stochastic processes, University of Georgia

"This is, of course, important in order for a kidney cell to be and function as a kidney cell, a nerve cell to function as a nerve cell, and so forth." Source

14Feb 2025 by Post

How Evolutionists Overlook Signatures of Design — The Case of Koalas

botany, Center for Science and Culture, convergence, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, David Klinghoffer, earth, embryology, Evolution, Evolution News, fingerprints, genetics, Günter Bechly, humans, Intelligent Design, Jay Mathers Savage, John West, koalas, mountain ranges, non-primates, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, state universities, sun, zoology

I note and discuss an astounding case of convergence between humans and koalas, “the only non-primates with fingerprints.” Source

13Feb 2025 by Post

Sophisticated Energy Shield Found in a Shrimp

arthropod, biology, Bouligand structure, brain injuries, dactyl club, Davide Castelvecchi, design language, Emily Reeves, Evolution, Evolution Theater, evolutionary fitness landscape, H. D. Espinoza, hierarchical, Hubble Space Telescope, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex mechanisms, James Webb Space Telescope, mantis shrimp, Mark S. Lavine, Morpho butterfly, N. A. Alderete, Nature (journal), nerve damage, Northwestern University, Odontodactylus scyllarus, Pablo D. Zavatierri, Science (journal), shear waves, structural color

A sophisticated energy-absorbing structure has been discovered in the mantis shrimp’s dactyl club that protects the animal from its own shock waves. Source

12Feb 2025 by Post

When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

Atheism, background information, Bayes factor, Bayesian analysis, Bayes’s theorem, biological design, biology, environmental fitness, Evolution, Evolution News, fine-tuning, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, physical constants, plausibility, Podcast, prior probability, probabilities, revealed religion, theism

Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Source

09Feb 2025 by Post