Questioning the Science Experts: Is It Even Permitted?

Blaise Pascal, COVID-19, Darwinism, epidemiologists, Evolution, experts, global cooling, global warming, Great Barrington Declaration, House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Intelligent Design, J. Budziszewski, Jonathan Haidt, journalists, medical professionals, Medicine, Pandemic of Lunacy, People for the American Way, political debates, psychologist, schools, scientific reasoning, scientists, University of Texas at Austin, workplaces
If you're trying to do ID science, it's a little bit easier to be intellectually honest, because you have to work harder to make the case for your claim. Source
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Myth and Legend in Darwin’s Famous Origins Story

Charles Darwin, cultural timing, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, Europe, Evolution, False Messiah, history of science, ID The Future, interviews, life, mythology, Neil Thomas, philosophical appeal, scientific demonstration, scientific materialism, storytelling, Taking Leave of Darwin
Neil Thomas makes a case that the rise of Darwin’s theory owes much to cultural timing, philosophical appeal, and persuasive storytelling. Source
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Post-Darwin, Too, Maxwell Drew a Remarkable Design Inference

amino acids, British Association, Cambridge University, cancer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cecil J. Monro, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, configurational entropy, cosmology, Daniel Silver, Encyclopedia Britannica, Evolution, fine-tuning, history of science, Intelligent Design, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Maxwell’s demon, molecules, Origin of Species, pain, pangenesis, physics, poetry, Punishment, Red Lions, science stopper, thermodynamics, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
So far we detect significant prescience about intelligent design in Maxwell’s thought. He all but uses the phrase himself. Source
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After K–T Extinction Event, Life’s Unexpected Rebound Was “Ridiculously Fast”

animals, Austin, birds, Chicxulub impact, coccolithophore, darkness, Darwinism, dinosaurs, ecosystems, Evolution, fauna, fisheries, Geology (journal), geophysics, global catastrophe, global winter, helium-3, humans, innovations, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, K-T extinction event, mammals, naturalism, plankton, researchers, Science and Culture Today, Science Daily, spines, sudden appearance, University of Texas
Although the welfare of plankton may not be at the very top of most people’s minds, these tiny organisms fill an important ecological niche. Source
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Rob Stadler on the “Low Confidence” Science of Darwinism

biochemical pathways, biology, confidence, Eric Anderson, Evolution, evolutionary process, explanatory power, generations, genes, homology, ID The Future, laboratory studies, mechanisms, medical engineers, mutations, Neo-Darwinism, organisms, Podcast, Rob Stadler, survival, textbooks, two-mutation gap
Across experiments involving bacteria and yeast, researchers found that while evolution can occasionally fix a single point mutation. Source
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Evolution: What Is in a Word? (Hint: Not Much)

abiogenesis, agnostics, atheists, biologists, biology, careers, Complexity, Curtis Hrischuk, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, endowed by our creator, equilibrium, Evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary jargon, Gregory Reeves, human engineers, information, John West, living things, Michael Egnor, narrative gloss, natural selection, nature, neurosurgeon, organisms, Philip Skell, physics, Science and Culture Today, Stuart Burgess, transcendent intelligent source
Since the entire non-living universe contains far less information content than a single living cell, life presents an enigma to materialism. Source
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Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

Archbishop Józef Mirosław Życiński, Bible, biological origins, Brown University, C. Everett Koop, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic intellectuals, Darwinism, Edward Peltzer, Ernan McMullin, Evolution, Faith & Science, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Fr. Richard Pendergast, Francis Schaeffer, Genesis, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kurt Wise, Lumen Christi Institute, Macroevolution, Microevolution, Protestant circles, Protestants, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholicism, Steve Greene, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Young Earth Creationists
Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Source
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Watch: Catholics in Conversation on Intelligent Design

clergymen, Conversation, Creation or Evolution?, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and reason, faith and science, faith community, Fr. Michael Chaberek, implications, Intelligent Design, laymen, Neo-Darwinism, pastors, philosophy, priests, rabbis, reason, Reasonably Rational, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, science, Steve Greene, synthesis, theology
Fr. Michael is doing what many a member of a faith community probably wishes his own clergyman could do, given the importance of the subject. Source
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Do the Asgard Archaea Hold the Keys to Eukaryotic Origins?

aerobic lifestyle, Alphaproteobacteria, Arctic Ocean, Asgard, Asgard archaea, biology, cell division, cell's, cytokinesis, electron transport chain complex, ESCRT-III division, eukaryotes, eukaryotic signature proteins, Evolution, FtsZ proteins, hydrogenases, hydrothermal vent, Intelligent Design, Lokiarchaeota, Loki’s Castle, mitochondria, mitosis, Nature (journal), Norse deities, Odinarcheota, polymerization, synthesis, Thorarchaeota
In 2015, a new superphylum of archaea was reported, having been discovered through metagenomic sequences of sediments. Source
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The Levin Teleology Revolution Is Here

academia, Aristotle, Biological Theory, biology, Brian Charlesworth, Brian Miller, careers, cognition, computer code, David B. Resnik, designer, Douglas Futuyma, Evolution, Gen Z, gender issues, goal-directedness, graduate school, intelligence, Intelligent Design, intentionality, Jerry Coyne, Michael Levin, neo-Darwinians, neuroscience, Plato, Plato's Revenge, purpose, reactionaries, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, Stuart Burgess, teleology, Tufts University
He has assembled a global community of like-minded investigators who openly advocate teleological arguments harking back to Aristotle and Plato. Source
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