A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Adam and Eve, Brian Miller, Catholics, creation myth, Darwinian paradigm, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Father Martin Hilbert, history, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, life, philosophy, science, Secularism, theology, universe
For too long now, Catholic scholars and many of the faithful have felt compelled to align themselves with a Darwinian account of life’s origins. Source
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Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

academia, adults, amber, antennae, astrology, Basilosaurus, beetles, Carabidae, catching cage, Collembola, Dorudon, Evolution, Fossil Friday (series), Indohyus, K/Pg impact event, larvae, living fossils, Loricera, maxillae, Myanmar, Neo-Darwinism, Pakicetus, paleontology, psychoanalysis, unguided evolution, Wired
Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Source
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The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: An Irreducibly Complex System

anaphase, ATPase, aurora kinases, BIO-Complexity, cell division, centromere, checkpoints, chromosomal disorganization, chromosome, chromosome segregation, condensins, contractile ring, dynein, Engineering, eukaryotic cell cycle, eukaryotic cell division, Evolution, foresight, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex, kinesin, kinetochore, Maintenance of Chromosomes, metaphase, microtubules, mitosis, mitotic cell division, motor proteins, protein complexes, proteins, spindle formation, ubiquitylate securin
Any system that achieves a complex higher-level objective by means of various well-matched interacting components requires foresight to come about. Source
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Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space

A. E. Wilder-Smith, amino acids, Centre for Genomic Regulation, chance, Charles Thaxton, earthquakes, Evolution, Ewen Callaway, Francis Crick, Illustra Media, intelligence, Intelligent Design, James F. Coppedge, No Free Lunch, primordial soup, proteins, Roger Olsen, sequence hypothesis, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, wind, Wistar Institute
They may call it evolution, but it is all about intelligent design and artificial selection, not Darwinism. Source
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Postcard from Venice: First Pan-European Conference on Intelligent Design

Alessandro Giorgetti, Alfred Krabbe, Carlo Alberto Cossano, Casey Luskin, Centre for Intelligent Design, Centro Italiano Intelligent Design, David Galloway, Discovery Institute, En Arche, Europe, Evolution, Ferdinando Catalano, Intelligent Design, Rope Kojonen, Stanisław Karpiński, theistic evolution, thought police, Venice, Zentrum für BioKomplexität & NaturTeleologie
Recently I had the great privilege and honor to attend a remarkable event in the beautiful and historic city of Venice, Italy. Source
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Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

arthropods, bacterial decay, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Doolittle Walcott, China, clay mineralogy, Devonian Hunsrück Shale, digestive tracts, Emu Bay Shale, Evolution, eyes, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, Intelligent Design, Kangaroo Island, Karl Popper, microbes, mudslides, paleontologists, paleontology, preservation, South Australia, taphonomic processes, Theodosius Dobzhansky, turbidites, Waptia fieldensis
All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Source
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ORFanID: An Online Search Engine for Identifying Orfan Genes

bacteria, bioinformatics, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, Discovery Institute, DNA, E. coli, Evolution, evolutionary paradigm, fungi, gene classification, genes, genomes, genomics, genomics analysis, H. sapiens, Intelligent Design, nucleotide sequences, O. sativa, ORfan genes, plants, PLOS ONE, S. cerevisiae, search engine, taxonomic groups, Z. mays
The existence of such genes is surprising given the hypothesis of universal common descent. Source
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