Design Triangulation: My Thanksgiving Gift to All

aliens, Allchemy chemical evolution simulation, Alpha Centauri, black swallowtail, Every Life Is on Fire, Francis Crick, Honda Odyssey, Houdini, Immanuel Kant, Intelligent Design, Jeremy England, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lego blocks, locomotives, mathematics, Naturalistic Parabola, nematodes, Niels Bohr, puzzles, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Science (journal), Thanksgiving, The Beatles, William Blake
Hey — wanna see a talk that combines the following. Black swallowtail butterflies, William Harvey, snarky robotic aliens from Alpha Centauri, and more. Source
Read More

In the Evolution Debate, How Truth Can Prevail

academic journals, autocratic institutions, biology, bureaucracy, Chemistry, echo chamber, educational curricula, Evolution, Evolution News, free speech, Intelligent Design, mass communications, News Media, newspapers, Paul Kecskemeti, physics, readers, religious instruction, scientific materialism, totalitarianism, truth
Paul Kecskemeti’s analysis perfectly describes the challenge faced by anyone who wishes to publicly tell the truth about the evidence for design. Source
Read More

Darwin Is on the Roof — New Book from Michael Behe, Out Today

A Mousetrap for Darwin, biochemistry, biology textbooks, cat, Charles Darwin, chloroquine resistance, complexity theory, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, facilitated variation, Intelligent Design, jokes, Joshua Swamidass, mainstream media, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Nature (journal), operating table, popular media, Richard Lenski, roof, Science (journal), self-organization, symbiosis, veterinary anesthesia
The public is being prepared very slowly for the demise of Darwinian evolutionary theory. It wasn’t planned this way, but it is how things are playing out. Source
Read More

From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Advice for Intelligent Design Dissidents

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, cancel culture, censorship, Culture & Ethics, dissidents, free speech, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Live Not By Lies, Michael Egnor, neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize, Podcast, silencing tactics, Soviet Union, United States
Solzhenitsyn’s basic advice is simply not to participate with lies, and to refuse to speak what one does not believe. It’s unnervingly relevant counsel. Source
Read More

Animals Set World Records

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, chameleon, cockroaches, Colorado, Darwinism, Duke University, Florida Museum of Natural History, froghopper, Gerris latiabdominis, Intelligent Design, leg jitter, Mexican free-tailed bats, Mexico, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Pipistrellus nathusii, planthopper, slingshot spider, Spiderman, Theridiosomatidae, water strider
Some of the most unexpected animals, many of them tiny, are capable of world-record feats. Source
Read More

Michael Behe: Kafka in Dover, Pennsylvania

A Mousetrap for Darwin, computational biology, courts, election, Franz Kafka, hardback, Harrisburg, Intelligent Design, Joshua Swamidass, Judge John E. Jones, Kafkaesque, Kindle, Kitzmiller v. Dover, legal claims, paperback, Pat Flynn, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, The Trial, Washington University
Behe concludes here, “Courts are not good places to discuss ideas.” Yet ID critics continue to cite the Dover case as scientific gospel. Source
Read More

Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells

Aleksandr Oparin, Alexander Marras, Ann Gauger, Argonne National Laboratory, bubbles, Charles Thaxton, Chemistry, coacervates, Darwinian theory, Dean Matthew Tirrell, Elena dos Santos, Encyclopedia Britannica, Evolution, Frankenstein, Geppetto, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design, Marxists, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, origin of life, Penn State, Pinocchio, replication, RNA, RNA world, Sam Sholtis, Sidney Fox, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Basel, University of Chicago
Oparin is back. Some origin-of-life researchers are using his coacervate theory without giving him credit or realizing they are retreading dead-end ideas. Source
Read More

A Contest More Consequential than a U.S. Election? Yes! John Lennox Explains

Against the Tide, Atheism, Communism, documentary, Eastern Europe, election, Evolution, Faith & Science, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John Lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Oxford University, Podcast, rationality, Stephen Meyer, United States, Worldview
Lennox tells about discovering the damage an atheist worldview does. He saw it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe, and he saw what it does to rationality. Source
Read More