On the Origin of Science and Culture Today

ampersand, athan Jacobson, bookmark, Center for Science and Culture, creationism, Discernment, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Evolution News, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, Möbius strip, Nathan Jacobson, News Media, Podcast, Rob Crowther, Science and Culture, Science and Culture Today, Science Reporting
First, the conversation delves into the site’s launch in December 2004, when the modern intelligent design movement and the Internet were both relatively new. Source
Read More

Casey Luskin Answers Common Objections to Intelligent Design

"God of the gaps", Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, bird groups, Casey Luskin, co-option, Darwinian predictions, evolutionary timeline, flowering plants, fossil record, hand bones, Homo (genus), Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, ID The Future, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jacob Vasquez, Junk DNA, knuckle-walkers, land plants, Lucy (fossil), mammals, naturalism, naturalism in the gaps, paleontology, pelvis, scientific knowledge, tree branches, type III secretion system
Dr. Luskin highlights a “large unbridged gap” in the fossil record between ape-like species like Lucy and human-like species. Source
Read More

In a Universe of Non-Living Matter, Communication Sets Us Apart

anatomy, auditory nerve, biochemistry, cochlea, communication, comprehension, ear, eardrum, eric hedin, expression, functionality, hair cells, hearing, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, lips, mouth, neurology, ossicles, pharynx, reception, speech, tongue, vocal cords
Communication is found across all life forms, from the signals sent by trees through fungal networks to the deep conversations we can have with each other. Source
Read More

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” A Question for Stephen Meyer

biology, Charles Darwin, code, creative power, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution, evolutionary processes, ID The Future, information processing systems, integrated circuits, Intelligent Design, Joe Rogan, mutation/selection mechanism, nano-machines, neo-Darwinian theory, Podcast, signaling molecules, Stephen Meyer, transcriptional hierarchies, variations
That’s a good question that could start a very productive conversation about the origin and development of life on Earth. Source
Read More

Learning About Biological Design from Human Art

anatomy, art, Complexity, designing process, electrical systems, fuel delivery, Icons of Evolution, ID The Future, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, invention, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, Life Sciences, Machine-Living System Analogy, mind, natural world, Podcast, power plants, sensory systems, structural systems engineer, visual form
How does an intelligent agent go from idea to artifact? What can the process of art teach us about the evidence of design in the natural world? Source
Read More