Category: Intelligent Design

29Nov 2023 by Post

Thus Saith the Science: Recalling the Wisdom of C. S. Lewis on His 125th Birthday

atheists, C.S. Lewis, corruption, Culture, Culture & Ethics, ethics, Faith & Science, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John West, material processes, materialism, mind, relativism, scientific progress, scientism, The Magician’s Twin

Here, I conclude a conversation with Dr. John West about Lewis’s prophetic warnings to us about science and scientism. Source

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28Nov 2023 by Post

The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

anomalies, BioEssays, biology, brain function, dogma, epigenetic information, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary theory, function, gene regulation, genes, genetic programming, geochemical anomalies, inheritance, Intelligent Design, John Mattick, Junk DNA, molecular biology, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, RNA genes, Thomas Kuhn, transgenerational memory

RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Source

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27Nov 2023 by Post

Tomorrow: Webinar with Maverick Scientist Forrest Mims

aerosol optical thickness, Center for Science and Culture, column water vapor, Discover Magazine, Facebook, Forrest Mims III, Geronimo Creek Observatory, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, livestream, Make: Magazine, Mauna Loa Observatory, Maverick Scientist, NASA, NOAA, ozone layer, personal computer, photosynthetic radiation, Radio Shack, science fair, Science Probe, seeing aid, Smithsonian Institution, solar ultraviolet radiation, Texas, Texas A&M University, Total Ozone Portable Spectrometer, webinar

Prepared to be entertained — and inspired — by the man who describes his life as “one continuous science fair project.” Source

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25Nov 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, botany, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Evolution, H.M.S. Beagle, Intelligent Design, Island Life, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, Malay Archipelago, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Palms of the Amazon and Rio Negro, Robert Chambers, Samuel Stevens, Sarawak Law, Somerset Maugham, South America, The Malay Archipelago, Use, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Walter Henry Bates

Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Source

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23Nov 2023 by Post

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

academia, brain, Darwinism, Evolution, Fornace, gratitude, Harvard University, ID movement, Intelligent Design, Italy, James Tour, Lee Cronin, materialism, matter, Michael Denton, mind, Minding the Brain, origin of life, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Thanksgiving, The Miracle of Man

One reason, he says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. This conversation is itself evidence on the latter point. Source

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21Nov 2023 by Post

Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence

Antarctica, arson, biology, carbon dioxide, Dead Sea Scrolls, design detection, Evolution, geological history, Greenland Ice Sheet Project, intelligence, intelligent agency, Intelligent Design, Lake Vostok, magnetic field, Michael Egnor, minds, natural forces, Paul Nelson, probability, shales, water, Willaim Dembski

The Dead Sea Scrolls are an example of a design artifact for which intelligence is inferred as the source. Source

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20Nov 2023 by Post

Mimesis and Identifying the Intelligent Designer

atheists, biology, Chemistry, climate change, creative activity, entertainment, Evolution, Faith & Science, high school, human beings, intelligent activity, Intelligent Design, materialists, mimesis, music, non-fiction, Patrick T. Brown, philosophy, popular fiction, René Girard, The Free Press, thick desire, thin desire

We are social creatures, meant to be together. That means social pressure is real and can be intense. Source

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17Nov 2023 by Post

Bill Dembski Reflects on the Origins of a Classic

academia, Darwinists, Education, Evolution, freedom, ID The Future, intelligence, Intelligent Design, mathematicians, philosophy, Podcast, randomness, Technology, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, William Dembski, William Paley

Twenty-five years later, Dembski’s arguments stand firm, and a second edition with fresh analysis and insight is now available to a new generation. Source

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15Nov 2023 by Post

James Tour and Lee Cronin to Discuss Origin of Life at Harvard Roundtable

Cambridge Faculty Roundtable on Science and Religion, Events, Evolution, faculty, Harvard University, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Lee Cronin, MIT, origin of life, roundtable

Props to Professor Lee Cronin for agreeing to participate. Wish you could be a fly on the wall? Here's good news. Source

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13Nov 2023 by Post

Epigenetics: Performing the Genome

cadenza, central dogma, coda, Current Biology, diet, DNA, EMBO Reports, environment, epigenetics, Evolution, exercise, Frank Gannon, Frankenstein, genome, Intelligent Design, John Innes Centre, Life Sciences, lifestyle, low oxygen, mental habits, middle C, mind, mood, mutations, pianist, piano, RNA, Serengeti, tempo, University of Georgia, Van Cliburn, Vladimir Horowitz, zebra, zebra finch, zebrafish

Epigenetics is surpassing genetics in distinction, just as the pianist gets the applause and not the piano. Source

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