Natural Selection: The God that Failed

Alfred North Whitehead, Apostle Paul, Catholic Church, Christians, Darwinian paradigm, Darwinism, earthquakes, Europe, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, god-of-the-gaps fallacy, Greek philosophers, Human Origins, human soul, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, John Lennox, lightning, New Testament, Nobel laureates, non-coding, Poseidon, pre-Socratics, Robert Laughlin, Scriptures, thunder, Zeus
The god-of-the-gaps objection does have some merit to it, but it does not rule out ID. The progress of science has dethroned a multitude of false gods. Source
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On Giving Tuesday, Feelings Are Not Enough

atheists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Conversion, depression, Discovery Institute Press, emotion, Evolution News, Faith & Science, faith and science, Father Martin Hilbert, Feelings, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, John West, Jonathan McLatchie, Muslims, new york, Richard Dawkins, self-hatred, Somalia, Stephen Meyer, suicide, William Dembski
Here was a believer, a very thoughtful one, who knew nothing about whether the God hypothesis can be defended on objective grounds. Source
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A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Adam and Eve, Brian Miller, Catholics, creation myth, Darwinian paradigm, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Father Martin Hilbert, history, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, life, philosophy, science, Secularism, theology, universe
For too long now, Catholic scholars and many of the faithful have felt compelled to align themselves with a Darwinian account of life’s origins. Source
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The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: An Irreducibly Complex System

anaphase, ATPase, aurora kinases, BIO-Complexity, cell division, centromere, checkpoints, chromosomal disorganization, chromosome, chromosome segregation, condensins, contractile ring, dynein, Engineering, eukaryotic cell cycle, eukaryotic cell division, Evolution, foresight, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex, kinesin, kinetochore, Maintenance of Chromosomes, metaphase, microtubules, mitosis, mitotic cell division, motor proteins, protein complexes, proteins, spindle formation, ubiquitylate securin
Any system that achieves a complex higher-level objective by means of various well-matched interacting components requires foresight to come about. Source
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New Book Makes the Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Adam and, Brian Miller, Catechism of the Catholic Church, creator, death, Discovery Institute Press, disease, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, Father Martin Hilbert, Father Michael Chaberek, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, J. Budziszewski, Jay W. Richards, Roman Catholic Church, Suffering, theistic evolution, theology
Fr. Martin Hilbert explains why the theory of intelligent design, rightly understood, harmonizes perfectly with the Catholic theological tradition. Source
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Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space

A. E. Wilder-Smith, amino acids, Centre for Genomic Regulation, chance, Charles Thaxton, earthquakes, Evolution, Ewen Callaway, Francis Crick, Illustra Media, intelligence, Intelligent Design, James F. Coppedge, No Free Lunch, primordial soup, proteins, Roger Olsen, sequence hypothesis, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, wind, Wistar Institute
They may call it evolution, but it is all about intelligent design and artificial selection, not Darwinism. Source
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