Axe and Luskin on the Design Intuition and Its Critics

beta-lactamase, Cambridge, Casey Luskin, cookies, design intuition, Douglas Axe, dragonflies, England, enzymes, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mutation, peer-reviewed research, philosophers, Podcasts, protein scientists, scientific reasoning, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theophobes, Undeniable (book)
The numbers don’t lie. So why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Axe’s research? Source
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Burgess: Design of Human Body Greatly Surpasses Human Engineering

anatomy, ankles, biology, Boeing 747, brain, design framework, dexterity, engineers, Evolution, evolutionary process, human body, human engineering, Intelligent Design, joint lubrication, knees, mathematics, mutations, Peter Sterling, prosthetic limbs, robotic limbs, robots, Simon Laughlin, Stuart Burgess, synovial fluid, Technology, Ultimate Engineering, wiring
Embracing the evolutionary narrative requires one to abandon one’s belief in mathematics. Source
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Happy Darwin Day! Significance of New Book on Human Anatomy Cannot Be Overstated

"poor design", anatomy, biology, bridges, design logic, Duke University, dysteleology, Engineering, Evolution, human anatomy, human body, Human Errors, human spine, Intelligent Design, joints, knee, load-baring capacity, longevity, motion, Nathan Lents, optimal design, Steven Vogel, Stuart Burgess, suboptimal design, teleology, tinkering, Ultimate Engineering, upright walking, vertebral disks
Dr. Burgess's own research proved that knee joint geometry and supporting structures are optimally designed to achieve multiple objectives. Source
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Bad Design, or Ultimate Engineering? Two Views of Biology

Abby Hafer, aging, anatomy, arteries, bad design, biology, constraints, decay, Duke University, engineered systems, Engineering, European Space Agency, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary mechanism, foresight, Francois Jacob, fungi, genetic flaws, heart, Human Errors, human technology, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, joints, lubrication, Nathan Lents, reproduction, Richard Dawkins, Steven Vogel, suboptimal design, survival, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer, The Origin of Species, theistic design, tinkering, unintelligent design
An intelligent designer can employ foresight to envision a solution well beyond anything in existence at the time, and then set about making that a reality. Source
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A Friend Asks: For Darwin Skeptics, What Does the Second Law Argument Accomplish?

atoms, BIO-Complexity, civilization, computers, Darwinists, disorder, earth, encyclopedias, entropy, equations, Evolution, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, iPhones, machines, order, physics, probability, Science and Culture Today, Second Law of Thermodynamics, solar energy, sun, tautology, tornado
The only law of science that the development of civilization on a barren planet could violate is the (generalized) second law of thermodynamics. Source
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Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

Center for Science and Culture, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, citrate, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, DNA, DNA replication, DNA replisome, Escherichia coli, Evolution, generation turnover time, genome duplication, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, lizards, Michael Behe, multicellularity, mutation rates, mutations, natural selection, neutral mutations, Paramecium tetraurelia, placenta, population size, retrovirus, Richard Lenski, Rutgers University, Scott Minnich, tetherin, tetherin antagonism, type III secretion system, viruses, YouTube channels, __featured1
I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Source
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On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence

adenine, biochemists, biology, E. coli, Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness, fossil record, gene, gene transcription, genes, genetics, genotype, homology, information, James Tour, lactose, Michael Behe, natural selection, promoter, random mutations, regulatory control, researchers, Rice University, S. cerevisiae, tryptophan, W303, When Can I Trust What Scientists Say? (series), yeast, YouTube videos
In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Source
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For “Convergent Evolution,” Darwinists Offer Awkward Explanatory Tinkering

animals, Arabidopsis, biology, circuits, co-evolution, common ancestor, convergent evolution, Darwin on Trial, Drosophila, Evolution, hair trigger, immune response, immune systems, Intelligent Design, kingdoms, Life Sciences, logic, natural selection, nematode, NLR-o-gram, pathogens, Phillip Johnson, plants, proteins, robustness, Science (journal)
How clever of separate kingdoms of organisms to have figured all this out independently! Source
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More to Love about Springtails, Those Adorable Gymnasts

Adrian Smith, Ant Lab, Arthropoda, collophore, convergent evolution, Cyrille D’Haese, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, deserts, dry deserts, engineers, Evolution, evolutionists, fungus, furcula, Günter Bechly, gymnasts, habitats, Harvard University, ice deserts, Intelligent Design, Mark Stevens, Mollusca, mouthparts, rotting wood, science fair, sea slugs, Spain, springtails, stasis, Subterranean Biology, The Conversation, Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society, zoology
Does it have to be called an “evolutionary success” instead of a success? The word “evolutionary” performs no function. It is also contrary to the evidence. Source
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Could Genetic Mutations Be Non-Random? New Evidence for Mutational Bias

Africa, African sleeping sickness, APOL1, Daniel Melamed, diseases, Engineering, Evolution, genes, genetic mutations, genetics, genomes, germline genome, haploid, heterozygotes, HindIII, homozygotes, Intelligent Design, Israel, malaria, MEMDS, mutation DNA, Mutation Enrichment followed by Maximum Depth Sequencing, mutation frequency, mutations, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, randomness, restriction enzyme, sperm, sperm DNA, Trypanosoma brucei, University of Haifa, wild-type DNA
The researchers examined the emergence of a mutation in the human APOL1 gene that confers protection from African sleeping sickness. Source
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