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10May 2025 by Post

Lost In (Search) Space: Why Randomness Challenges Neo-Darwinian Theory

biology, complex structures, Evolution, fitness, Germany, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, living things, Max Planck Institute, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, Paul Nelson, Podcast, randomness, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig discuss randomness in natural selection and why randomness is such a controversial topic. Source

08May 2025 by Post

Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb

bamboo, clumsy, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, giant pandas, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mammals, mechanical systems, paleontologists, Panda's Thumb, Podcast, radial sesamoid, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Burgess, suboptimal, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone

Giant pandas have an elongated wrist bone, the radial sesamoid, that allows them to handle and eat bamboo with great dexterity. Source

06May 2025 by Post

“Recant!” A Sternberg Story that (Almost) Got Away

bullying, bureaucracy, Cambrian Explosion, Center for Science and Culture, Emily Sandico, Evolution, Federal Government, free speech, Greece, Greek Orthodox Church, Heresy, immaterial genome, Intelligent Design, John West, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, National Museum of Natural History, Ottoman Empire, parishioners, Plato's Revenge, priests, Redmond, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

The priest cited to Sternberg the experience of Greeks when they lived under harsh Turkish rule. Source

04May 2025 by Post

“If That’s True, It Changes Everything”: David Klinghoffer Reads from Plato’s Revenge

Ann Gauger, biology, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Evolution, genome, ID The Future, immaterial genome, Intelligent Design, mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Plato's Revenge, Podcast

As David Klinghoffer relates in the Introduction, Richard Sternberg’s work is set to change the predominant conception of the genome. Source

02May 2025 by Post

Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness

Allen Brain Institute, Allison Parshall, anatomy, COGITATE, cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Intelligent Design, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Robert Chis-Ciure, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex

Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Source

02May 2025 by Post

The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

Aeneid, An Inventive Universe, Aristotle, Darwinism, Evolution, Gerald H. Pollack, Harvard University, human evolution, human spirit, Inkwell Press, Intelligent Design, James Barham, John McDowell, Kenneth G. Denbigh, Latin, Mind and Cosmos, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, natural selection, naturalism, neo-Thomists, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of nature, Philosophy of Science, Richard Dawkins, scientism, teleology, Thomas Browne, Thomas Nagel, University of Texas

Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Source

30Apr 2025 by Post

Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

atoms, biology, biomolecular activities, biosignature, Brian Miller, cell, choices, chromosomes, cognition, dance, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, Evolution, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, limbic system, living systems, natural processes, primitive, response, sense, unnatural

The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Source

29Apr 2025 by Post

The Math Behind the Immaterial Genome

algorithm, algorithmic information, carbohydrates, cognition, David Klinghoffer, death, deformations, development, DNA, egg, embryo, embryology, Evolution, fetus, genes, immaterial genome, infant, information, instructions, Intelligent Design, lipids, mathematics, mutations, Mycoplasma genitalium, Plato, Plato's Revenge, preformationist, proteins, Richard Sternberg, RNA, scientific reasoning, simulation software package, trans-computational, zygote

While not a formal defense, this analysis aims to give readers an intuitive grasp of the reasoning behind Richard Sternberg's Platonic perspective. Source

28Apr 2025 by Post

Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

agency, Archaeology, Big Bang, biology, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, cell, complex and specified information, DNA, embryo, Evolution, evolutionary, evolutionism, genes, Heresy, historical science, history, immaterial genome, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, J. Scott Turner, National Museum of Natural History, peer-reviewed literature, philosophy, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, purpose, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal

David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Source

25Apr 2025 by Post

Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

cabbage, carrots, Charles Darwin, civilizations, Copernican moment, earth, Evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, genes, history, human beings, human exceptionalism, Human Genome Project, Intelligent Design, life, machinery, Matt Ridley, music, natural selection, Nicolaus Copernicus, Planetology, planets, sun

I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Source

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