Category: Intelligent Design

18Feb 2021 by Post

James Tour Samples Primordial Soup: Watch Episode 2 on Abiogenesis Now

chemists, Discovery Institute Press, early Earth, Evolution, Intelligent Design, James Tour, life, materialism, non-life, origin of life, primordial soup, Rice University, The Mystery of Life’s Origin

"Goundwork is still being laid, as Dr. Tour explains the early Earth primordial soup concept and enlightens the listener on the layperson's understanding." Source

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17Feb 2021 by Post

A True Portrait of Tom Bethell

California, Darwinism, Darwin’s House of Cards, Evolution, Harper’s Magazine, heart, Intelligent Design, Laszlo Bencze, personality, photography, soul, Tom Bethell

The more secure the stronghold against paraphrase, the more special the object of our failed praise. Source

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16Feb 2021 by Post

Vindicated But Not Cited: Paper in Nature Heredity Supports Michael Behe’s Devolution Hypothesis

adaptation, Andrew Murray, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, devolution, Evolution, function, gene loss, genes, Intelligent Design, John Maynard Smith, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, Nature Heredity, phenotypes, The Quarterly Review of Biology

The literature is looking at the same data that intelligent design proponents are looking at, making similar observations, and asking similar questions. Source

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13Feb 2021 by Post

Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month

African Americans, Alfred Russel Wallace, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Darwinism, Darwinists, eugenics, Europeans, Evolution, Francis Galton, ID The Future, indigenous races, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Martin Luther King Jr., materialism, scientific racism, sterilization, theology, Victorian England

Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no. Source

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11Feb 2021 by Post

Human Orphan Genes — Interesting YouTube Talk Tonight by Nathan Lents

Bernard Dujon, Evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, genome, Human Errors, human genome, Institut Pasteur, Intelligent Design, Nathan Lents, open reading frame, ORfan genes, orphan genes, undirected evolution, yeast

A couple of years ago, Professor Lents became fascinated by orphan genes, and went looking for them in the human genome. Source

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08Feb 2021 by Post

William Dembski on ID, Church Fathers, and a Problem for Atheists

Casey Luskin, Center for Science & Culture, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Faith & Science, How to be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist (Or Not), ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, origin of life, PhD, Podcast, Sean McDowell, The Patristic Understanding of Creation, Understanding Intelligent Design, University of Johannesburg, William Dembski

Let's celebrate the return of Casey Luskin and William Dembski to the intelligent design sphere. Source

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06Feb 2021 by Post

Why Do Critics Misrepresent Intelligent Design?

academic journals, cause-and-effect reasoning, Charles Darwin, common sense, creationists, Darwin-skeptics, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Intelligent Design, misrepresentation, scientists, technical literature, teleology

I will close by revisiting the question of why people doubt Darwin and reject evolution — something discussed in my first post on this paper. Source

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05Feb 2021 by Post

Misconceptions about Misconceptions: Examining a Citation of My Work

apes, Casey Luskin, Evolution, Evolution: Education and Outreach, Homo (genus), Human Origins, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, National Center for Science Education, Neo-Darwinism, paleoanthropologists, religion, Stephen Meyer

The citation is to one of my earliest writings on the topic of human origins, an article I published in an old ID journal. Source

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04Feb 2021 by Post

Academic Article Correcting Misconceptions about Evolution Promotes Misconceptions about ID

academic journals, BMC Springer Nature, Brazil, Charles Darwin, creationism, creationists, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Evolution: Education and Outreach, Human Origins, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, lobby groups, Paul Nelson, religious beliefs, scientists

It’s good to be back at Discovery Institute. Even after my fives years away, I see that some things remain unchanged. Source

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01Feb 2021 by Post

A Mousetrap for Blind Evolution, and Larry Moran

A Mousetrap for Darwin, biochemistry, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Dollo’s Law, ecological challenges, Evolution, evolutionary innovation, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Larry Moran, Lehigh University, malaria, Michael Behe, microbes

Michael Behe also discusses recent research confirming Dollo’s Law, and why that’s bad news for Darwinism. Source

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