11Jul 2024 by Post

Springs, Glues, and Rocket Launchers in Cell Division

cell division, centromere, checkpoints, chromatid, chromosomes, cohesin, cowboys, Current Biology, Darwinese, DNA, error correction, Evolution, finesse, foresight, function, Intelligent Design, kinetics, meiosis, missegregation, NASA, PNAS, Rose Parade, sexual reproduction, tubulin, University of Duisburg-Essen
The molecules of life do much more than convey information. They combine and impose physical forces on each other in intricate, functional ways. Source
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10Jul 2024 by Post

Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

Andréa Morris, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Evolution, Evolution News, Evolution “On Purpose”, Forbes, free speech, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Joana Xavier, MIT Press, neo-Darwinists, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, not a foundation., Perry Marshall, persecution, physiologists, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy
We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Source
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09Jul 2024 by Post

Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

Anthropic Principle, biology, cell's, devolution, earth, Evolution, Fire-Maker, fossil record, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Witt, Michael Denton, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, scientific discovery, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet
The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Source
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03Jul 2024 by Post

What Is Pseudoscience? A Philosopher Tries to Figure It Out

astrology, Atheism, Christof Koch, creationism, David Chalmers, Evidence, fine-tuning, homeopathy, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Intelligent Design, Kåre Letrud, Massimo Pigliucci, Neuroscience & Mind, Nonsense on Stilts, parapsychology, philosophers, philosophical preference, Philosophy of Pseudoscience, pseudoscience, Skeptical Inquirer, UFOs
One is tempted to wonder whether “room for disagreement” is a polite term for Not Yet Cancelled. Source
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01Jul 2024 by Post

Illuminating the Power of Life

animate realm, biosphere, conditional entailment, copper, Evolution, functional logic, inorganic realm, insulin, Intelligent Design, intentionality, intrinsic properties, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, life, Newtonian mechanics, oxygen, powers ontology, purpose, redox chain, science of purpose, serum glucose, thermodynamics
That which is unique to life alone, which offers the only valid explanation of irreducible complexity, is the manifestation of goal-directed functional logic. Source
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