Category: Intelligent Design

03Sep 2024 by Post

Our Purposeless Planet? Jay Richards Tackles the Copernican Principle

biophysics, Copernican principle, cosmic coincidence, cosmology, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, scientific advance, The Privileged Planet

Not only is planet Earth well suited for advanced life like ourselves, it’s also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Source

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30Aug 2024 by Post

Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin

Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinian scientists, Evolution, fine-tuning, history of life, humans, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, Life Sciences, natural selection, Podcast, random variation, teleology, universe

Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory. Source

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30Aug 2024 by Post

Hey, Please Ask Dawkins About His “Junk DNA” Goof

Brian Keating, Casey Luskin, cosmologists, Darwinism, Darwinists, ENCODE, errors, Evolution, function, genome, human genome, Intelligent Design, Into the Impossible, Junk DNA, mistakes, predictions, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Richard Dawkins, UC San Diego

Our friend Brian Keating, a cosmologist at UC San Diego, does wonderful interviews. A particularly fun recent one was with Richard Dawkins. Source

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29Aug 2024 by Post

When an Atheist Professor’s Worldview Imploded

astronomy, Atheism, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian paradigm, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, genetics, Intelligent Design, John D. Wise, materialism, Michael Behe, molecular biology, philosophy, professors, The Christian Atheist, Worldview

For 25 years, John D. Wise considered Darwinian evolution the most plausible explanation for life’s origin and development. Source

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27Aug 2024 by Post

Engineered Elegance: Generating the Wait Anaphase Signal

anaphase, aneuploidy, cancer, chromatid pairs, chromosomal instability, chromosomes, colon cells, developmental abnormalities, Down syndrome, inhibitory complexes, Intelligent Design, kinetochores, Medicine, metaphase, microtubules, mitotic spindle, phosphatase, prometaphase, safety belt, spindle assembly checkpoint, tumorigenesis, tumors, yeast

Even a single unattached kinetochore is sufficient to trigger the wait anaphase signal, which inhibits activation of the APC/C that drives entry into anaphase. Source

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23Aug 2024 by Post

On the Origin of Darwin’s Worldview

Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theism, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, Evolution, freethinkers, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, materialism, Medicine, Plinian Society, Podcast, Scotland, theistic evolution, Worldview

Michael Flannery tells of Darwin’s involvement in the Plinian Society, a “freethinkers” group at Edinburgh University in Scotland. Source

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22Aug 2024 by Post

Stephen Meyer on the Digital Information that Drives Life

biology, digital information, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Justin Brierley, Life Sciences, origin of life, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific community, Stephen Meyer, The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God

There’s a significant shift underway, says Dr. Meyer. Darwinism is in trouble, and ID is attracting high-profile converts in the scientific community. Source

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21Aug 2024 by Post

William Dembski: What’s the Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

Aaron Zimmer, biology, cosmic fine-tuning, designing agent, Elie Feder, Evolution, Evolution News, fine-tuning, genetic machinery, Intelligent Design, magical thinking, Mike Licona, Podcast, The Design Inference, William Dembski, Winston Ewert

What exactly is the very best evidence for a designing agent behind nature? There are a number of contenders and, interestingly, not all ID proponents agree. Source

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20Aug 2024 by Post

Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

Bayesian analysis, chance, design hypothesis, divine psychology, evil, fine-tuning, genetic diseases, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, intelligent life, likelihood, natural disasters, physical constants, Physics, Earth & Space, prime principle of confirmation, probabilities, Robbin Collins, Suffering, universe

Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). Source

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19Aug 2024 by Post

Examining the Fine-Tuning Argument by Elimination

chance, Cosmological Natural Selection, design, elimination, fine-tuning, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, intentional design, Lee Smolin, multiverse, physical constants, physical necessity, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, probabilities, universe, william lane craig

In his article “Has the Multiverse Replaced God?” William Lane Craig presents the fine-tuning argument using the process of elimination. Source

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