Revealing Darrel Falk’s Overstatements about Limb Bones in Fish Fins

BioLogos, bones, Brian Miller, Cell (journal), common design, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution, fish fins, front-loaded design, Gerd Müller, homologous features, homology, Intelligent Design, Koji Tamura, mutations, Neil Shubin, Neo-Darwinism, novelty, phenotype, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stuart A. Newman, teleost, tetrapod, tetrapod limbs, Tohru Yano, zebrafish
The interpretation of the results as showing “latent” genetic capabilities has teleological overtones that are compatible with intelligent design. Source
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Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting

atomism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Craig Keener, crossbreeding, Darrel Falk, Dogs, Epicureanism, Evolution, Extended Synthesis, fossil record, Francisco Ayala, genes, genetic variations, Gerd Müller, Hugo de Vries, Intelligent Design, materialists, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Paul, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, standard evolutionary model, Stoics, The Blind Watchmaker
The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Source
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Cell Cannibalism Shows Intelligent Design

Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid proteins, biochemists, biology, blood cells, brain, caspases, cell's, enzyme, Foresight (book), Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonas Salk, Jun Suzuki, Kyoto University, lipid, lipid flag, Marcos Eberlin, Masahiro Maruoka, microglia, Molecular Cell, phagocytes, phospholipid, Salk Institute, scramblases, Xkr4, XRCC4, “Eat Me!” signal
“Eat me!” cries a cell to other cells. But biochemists know it is for the greater good. Source
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Origin of Life: Brian Miller Distills a Debate Between Dave Farina and James Tour

abiogenesis, blind natural forces, Brian Miller, Center for Science & Culture, Dave Farina, early Earth, Eric Anderson, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, James Tour, origin of life, Podcast, researchers, Rice University, science educators, synthetic organic chemistry
No one — not even the most elite of origin-of-life scientists — has a clue how life could have arisen through blind natural forces on the early Earth. Source
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Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Don’t Have a Good Track Record

"poor design", An Introduction to Systems Biology, ARF, bioengineering, biological information, biology, Darwinian processes, diarrhea, Erez Ribak, Erika DeBenedictis, gut bacteria, INK4a, Intelligent Design, MIT, Müller cells, natural selection, neurons, optic nerve, photoreceptors, physiology, random mutation, Technion, TEDx talk, Uri Alon, vertebrate eye, vestigial organs
For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology. Source
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Stephen Meyer: The Evidence “Cries Out” for God, Not the Other Way Around

Apologetics, Atheism, biology, BreakPoint, cosmology, Down syndrome, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, James Tour, John Stonestreet, materialism, mistakes, New Atheists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer, theism, unborn children, utilitarianism, William Dembski
I have heard ID dismissed as “apologetics,” with the implication of proponents in search of evidence to support a conclusion to which they're pre-committed. Source
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