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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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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Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design, with Michael Kent

Albuquerque, algorithms, alternative splicing, amino acid sequences, Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Brian Josephson, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, David Waltham, digital information, discoveries, earth, Earth-like planets, enzymes, fundamental constants, genes, ID The Future, information processing, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, life, Lucky Planet, Michael Kent, molecular biology, molecular machines, mutation, natural selection, physics, Planetology, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sandia National Laboratories, spliceosome, Stephen Meyer, universe, Why Evolution Is Different
Technological advances have led to the discovery of planets outside our solar system, with news heralding the discovery of many “earth-like” planets. Source
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Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

"God of the gaps", abiogenesis, bacterial flagella, biochemists, bioinformatics, debates, demarcation criteria, DNA, Douglas Axe, Evolution, falsifiability, glacial-interglacial cycles, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, Keith Fox, Michael Behe, Peter S. Williams, philosophers, predictions, protein folds, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, Tim McGrew, type III secretion system, Unbelievable?
With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Source
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Giraffes and the Fossil Record: Bad News for Neo-Darwinism

common descent, common design, environmental shifts, Evolution, evolutionary lineage, evolutionary sequence, fossil record, geneticists, geological evidence, giraffe evolution, giraffes, giraffe’s neck, ID The Future, intermediates, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Samotherium major, silos, stasis, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, zoology
Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig highlights the discrepancies in the fossil record that cause the traditional Darwinian narrative to unravel. Source
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Listen: Stuart Burgess Details Examples of Your Body’s Ultimate Engineering

anatomy, Darwinian expectations, Engineering, Evolution, eye, habitats, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, lab coats, locomotion, middle ear, nervous system, origins, Richard Dawkins, scientific theories, structures, systems, theories of origins, Ultimate Engineering, wrist joint
He’ll relate the time he and famed biologist Richard Dawkins debated, and he’ll remind us why we are all qualified to evaluate scientific theories of origins. Source
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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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How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive

albumin, blood, capillaries, cell death, Darwinian narrative, death, dying, Engineering, Eric Anderson, hormones, Howard Glicksman, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, life, liver, living systems, Medicine, minerals, physics, Podcast, proteins, Steve Laufmann, water, Your Designed Body
Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Source
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Terminal Lucidity Points to Indestructible Personhood

abstract thought, brain, brain function, communication, consciousness, death, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, Human Identity, ID The Future, materialism, medical literature, Medicine, memories, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movements, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, physicalism, reason, seizures, sensations, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, Threshold
Why would the human mind sometimes appear strongest when the brain is weakest? We begin a two-part conversation discussing the phenomenon of terminal lucidity. Source
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The Ingenious Cellular Structure that Keeps Us Alive

biology, cell's, chemical balance, chemicals, Darwinian theory, Energy, Engineering, Eric Anderson, friction, heat transfer, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID The Future, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, matter, Medicine, organisms, physicians, Podcast, Steve Laufmann, system of systems, systems engineers, Your Designed Body
In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Voila! Source
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