Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide with Casey Luskin
How would you explain intelligent design to someone who has just recently begun looking into it? Perhaps you are new to it yourself. Source
Rescuing Evolution from Darwinian Myth
Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, Darwin’s Bluff, evangelizers, Evolution, history, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Luther College, Michael Keas, mythology, natural selection, Podcast, Robert Shedinger
Does the public promotion of Darwin’s theory of natural selection match Darwin’s own private view of his theory? Source
Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives
1619 Project, Anglo-Saxons, Big Book, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cisnormative, conservative Christians, conservatives, Darwin’s Bluff, David Berlinski, David Moulton, Discovery Institute, Dover Area School District, Ernst Mayr, Evolution, Evolution’s Rainbow, Francis Crick, George Gaylord Simpson, H.M.S. Beagle, Holly Dunsworth, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, Intelligent Design, J.B.S. Haldane, Joan Roughgarden, Leif Jensen, liberalism, liberals, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Nikole-Hannah Jones, orchids, Origin of Species, pseudoscience, Sewell Wright, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel
After a decade of immersing myself in Darwin studies, evolutionary theory, and intelligent design, I find myself unexpectedly supportive of the iD position. Source
Emily Reeves: How to Study Biology with Systems Engineering Principles
ATP synthase, bacterial flagellar motor, biological systems, biologists, biology, cancer, Emily Reeves, engineered systems, engineers, glycolysis, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, living systems, methodology, nanotechnology, Photosystem I, Podcast, Research, scientific literature, systems engineering, Warburg effect
Traditional methods in biology have proven insufficient for understanding and accurately predicting complex biological systems. Why? Source
Nobelist Thomas Cech on “Junk RNA”
biochemists, biology, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, genetics, heuristic, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, junk RNA, lncRNAs, long noncoding RNAs, mRNA, neo-Darwinian paradigm, Nobel Prize, predictions, proteins, RNA, scientific progress, The Catalyst, Thomas Cech, W. W. Norton
We can add this prominent biochemist to the ever-growing list of scientists who reject the “junk DNA” paradigm. Or, more pertinently, the junk RNA paradigm. Source
Latest — and Largest — Intelligent Design Education Day Explores “Creepy Crawly Complexity”
biology, C. elegans, caterpillar, Center for Science and Culture, Complexity, Creepy Crawly Complexity, earthworms, ecosystem, Education, educators, George Damoff, Great Northern University, How to Code Life, insects, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design Education Day, megradrilologists, Metamorphosis (film), Parents, Pedro Moura, roundworms, science educators, Seattle, spiders, Spokane, Summer Seminar, Tiny Tech, Washington State, worms
Talks by three different scientists showcased the astonishing abundance, diversity, and complexity of insects, spiders, and worms. Source
Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?
astrobiologists, Casey Luskin, clock-maker, Cosmic Habitable Age, deism, designer, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, fingernails, galactic habitable zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Podcast, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Dedalus, The Privileged Planet, theism
Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. Source
Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge
Animal Algorithms, atheists, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, Life Sciences, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response
Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Source
Doug Axe on Darwinian Evolution: “One of the Weakest, Most Pathetic Scientific Theories”
biological complexity, biology, Chemistry, Christianity, Darwinian theory, Douglas Axe, Evolution, faith and science, history of science, Intelligent Design, life, origins, scientific theories, Sean McDowell, Second Law of Thermodynamics, theistic evolution, UC Berkeley, universe
Dr. Axe shared a particularly poignant memory of being a 19-year-old studying at UC Berkeley and attending a chemistry lecture. Source
In Search of Nature’s Hidden Design Treasures
beneficial design, creator, David Coppedge, earth, Faith & Science, functionality, George Washington Carver, GUT, Heather Gerrie, hidden treasures, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Mark A. Anthony, nature, netherworld, peanut, PNAS, searching, soil, University of British Columbia
Most people are familiar with George Washington Carver and his discoveries of multiple uses for the peanut. Source