Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

biology, Casey Luskin, cooperative effects, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, Evolution, Extended Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Lamarckian evolution, New Synthesis, origin of life, panspermia, Peter Corning, physics, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, retroactive admission of ignorance, selective pressures, symbiosis, synergism hypothesis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia
I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Source
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

agency, automaton, biology, Chemistry, Complexity, consciousness, decision-making, Evidence, Evolution, free will, fungal mind, genetics, human behavior, hyphae, imago Dei, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Internet, Judeo-Christian tradition, learning, Life Sciences, materialism, memory, Miami University, mind, mycelium, mycology, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas P. Money, Ohio, physics, randomness, science writers, scientists, sensitivity
Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Source
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The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

Albert Einstein, Big Bang, blue shifts, cepheid variable stars, Cosmic Background Radiation, cosmological constant, Doppler shift, earth, Geology, Georges Lemaître, globular clusters, Hubble age, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble-Lemaître constant, Intelligent Design, Milky Way, Physics, Earth & Space, spiral nebulae, supernovae, universe, Vesto Slipher
One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing. Source
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Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

abiogenesis, early Earth, enzymes, Eric Anderson, Evolution, fitness, Gerald Joyce, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, intelligent intervention, intervention, James Tour, medical engineers, origin of life, PNAS, Research, researchers, RNA world, Robert Stadler, Salk Institute, self-replicating RNA, Stephen Meyer, Washington Post
Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis. Source
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The Joy of Purposeful Solar Eclipses

atmospheric temperatures, cameras, Cassini mission, clouds, corona, Diamond Ring, Discovery Institute, eclipse, eclipse glasses, fourth contact, Guillermo Gonzalez, heavens, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design, intelligent observers, Jay Richards, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, meteorology, moon pies, Nelson University, Pam Bailey, Physics, Earth & Space, Prometheus (moon), providence, Saturn, soccer field, Solar Eclipse Experience, sun, temperature, Texas, The Privileged Planet, Waxahachie, weather
Intelligent design advocates have more fun at eclipses, knowing they are not just coincidental. That was certainly my experience on April 8. Source
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The True Fathers of the Big Bang 

Albert Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Anglo-American Empire, Arthur G. Walker, Big Bang, Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Cold War, cosmology, Edwin Hubble, galaxies, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, Henri Poincaré, Howard P. Robertson, Hubble-Lemaître Law, Intelligent Design, Inventeurs et Scientifiques, Jean-Pierre Luminet, P. J. E. Peebles, Physics, Earth & Space, Ralph Alpher, redshift, Robert Herman, space, theory of relativity, Vesto Slipher
The purpose of this book is not to exhaustively survey the history of cosmology through the centuries. Source
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Battle Butterflies

biologists, Department of Defense, engineers, giant squids, GPS, helicopter, humanity, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design, internal clock, Life Sciences, magnetic field, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies, Mexico, military, monarch butterfly, Philip Daniel, sharks, solar compass, submarine, whales
Every year, around a billion monarchs travel from across North America to gather overwinter in a few specific locations in Mexico. Source
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Atheists’ Faith in Science is Misplaced

2. Does God Exist?, Al Serrato, Apologetics, Atheism, Christianity, design argument, Gospel, Intelligent Design, science, scientism, teleology, Theology and Christian Apologetics
Most atheists I have encountered demonstrate an amazing “faith” in the power of science. They will often accuse believers of wishful thinking – or outright foolishness – when believers conclude that an intelligent being is the only reasonable inference to draw from the evidence of design that surrounds us. They do this because they have come to believe that only through “science” can anything be known, and that science will someday answer all of life’s mysteries. That is what’s called “scientism.” There is no need for a God, they assure themselves, because “science” has not provided for one. Is Science the Only Way to Know? The flaw in this thinking is the assumption that science is the only way one can know something. This is flawed on many levels. Science,…
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