24Sep 2021 by Post

Person of Interest | with J. Warner Wallace

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS Detective Wallace is back to show us through his new book, Person of Interest, the monumental and unparalleled impact Jesus of Nazareth has had on the entire world.  But this isn’t a softball interview.  Frank plays devil’s advocate with Jim to see how he responds to some tough objection’s skeptics might levy against some of his points, such as: Sure, Jesus has had a big impact, but couldn’t Christianity be based on a lie and then promoted by the Roman empire? You say Christians started science, but everyone was a Christian back then, so what’s the big deal? Aren’t science and Christianity at odds?  After all, look at how the…
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22Sep 2021 by Post

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

abdomen, Anomalocaris, aphids, arthropods, beetles, Berlin, bioengineers, biology, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, chelicerates, crickets, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, Evolution, flies, gnats, honeybees, Intelligent Design, Marrella, MIT, pill bugs, PNAS, praying mantises, spider-silk, spiders, Stephen Meyer, thorax, trilobites
They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Source
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20Sep 2021 by Post

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Has Left a Legacy of Confusion over Biological Adaptation

adaptation, Biological Emergences, biology, brain, cave fish, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Evolution, externalism, hurricane, Intelligent Design, internalism, Jerry Fodor, John Gerhard, Marc Kirschner, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Mother Nature, natural selection, New York Times Book Review, Phreatichthys andruzzii, Pocahontas, Richard Lewontin, Robert G. B. Reid, Stephen Jay Gould, sweating, What Darwin God Wrong, William Paley
Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions. Source
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17Sep 2021 by Post

Major “Ibero-American Intelligent Design Congress” Reaches the Spanish-Speaking World

Ana María Garzón Porras, Antonio Roman Martinez Fernandez, biology, Brazil, Central America, Costa Rica, Cristian Aguirre Del Pino, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Honduras, Human Origins, Intelligent Design, Juan Manuel Torres, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Quezia Salgado, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ricardo Bravo Méndez, Roberto Biaggi, São Paulo, Saulo Reis, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars
I had fantastic translation assistance from a Summer Seminar alumnus and valued colleague, Quezia Salgado, and my talk went well. Source
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16Sep 2021 by Post

Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers

blood pressure, cats, cochlear hair cells, Darwinism, Dogs, Evolution, evolutionary theory, information, Intelligent Design, lobsters, Mitra Hartmann, neuron firings, Nicholas Bush, Northwestern University, PNAS, rabbits, rats, rodents, Sara Solla, sea lions, touch-screen phone, Vg neurons, whiskers, whisking
Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.” Source
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14Sep 2021 by Post

Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley

A Journal of the Plague Year, Charles F. Mullett, common descent, Copernican principle, Daniel Defoe, Evolution, Faith & Science, fleas, Human Zoos, Jacques Barzun, John West, London, Natural Law and the Structure of Matter, pandemic, plague, Plato, Racism, rats, Ruth Barton, scientism, St. Martin's Hall, Stephen Porter, The X Men, Thomas Henry Huxley, Werner Heisenberg, X Club, Yersinia pestis
Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why. Source
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10Sep 2021 by Post

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, chemotaxis, Complexity, computer science, degradation, elegance, engineers, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, filament, fine-tuning, gears, gene expression, hook, Intelligent Design, peer-reviewed literature, proteins, rod, Science (journal), stator, Waldean Schulz
The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Source
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10Sep 2021 by Post

Luskin at The Federalist — Freedom Is Threatened; Now Will You Listen?

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Critics of Darwinian theory have faced exactly such a campaign — not just recently but going back a couple of decades. Source
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07Sep 2021 by Post

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

angiosperms, Biological Reviews, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution, evolutionary tree, FORA.tv, Genome Research, hierarchy, Intelligent Design, mammals, Metazoa, New Scientist, phylogenetic data, phylogenomic conflict, Precambrian, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, U.C. Davis, universal common ancestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Source
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