13Oct 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

allometric growth, BMC Ecology and Evolution, cervical vertebrae, crocodilians, cryptozoologists, Darwinian mechanisms, Early Triassic, end-Permian mass extinction, fish, flippers, fossil record, giraffes, Great Dying, homeotic mutations, humans, ichthyosaurs, Intelligent Design, lizards, Loch Ness monster, lorises, macromutations, mammals, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mutations, neck, neck length, nothosaurs, pachypleurosaurs, paleontology, Permian, pistosaurs, plesiosaurs, population genetics, pottos, Purussaurus, sea snake, sea turtle, sloths, stem group, vertebrae, vertebrates
The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Source
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11Oct 2023 by Post

The Miracle of Man: Reflections on the Westminster Conference

biology, Brian Miller, digital camera, Emily Reeves, Engineering, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, genetics, Howard Glicksman, human beings, human vision, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mankind, Mark Garcia, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, paleontology, philosophy, physiology, Podcast, skeletal joints, Steve Laufman, The Miracle of Man, theology, vision, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith
Dr. Miller gives a brief summary of his talk on the fine-tuning of human vision. We’ll be doing a full episode with him on that subject soon. Source
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07Oct 2023 by Post

A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace

"survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, Meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson
Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Source
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30Sep 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”

abstract thought, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, biology, Charles Darwin, Chemistry, cosmology, dance, Evolution, gaps, human beings, human uniqueness, Intelligent Design, mathematics, Michael Flannery, music, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, principle of utility, survival advantage
When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings. Source
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29Sep 2023 by Post

Paper Digest: Application of Animal Forms in Auto Styling

aerodynamic drag, aircraft wings, airfoil, Andrew M. King, animal designs, automobiles, automotive designs, Barracuda, beetle, biology, body profiles, Bronco, cars, constraints, curves, drag coefficient, Engineering, environmental requirements, Evolution, eyes, functional requirements, gills, headlights, Impala, Intelligent Design, interface requirements, Jaguar, Mustang, Paper Digest, peer-reviewed literature, performance requirements, Ram, Stuart C. Burgess, symmetry, tail, The Design Journal, trout, wholeness
The preeminence of design in nature and the utility of mimicking natural designs is a concept championed by the intelligent design community. Source
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28Sep 2023 by Post

Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

Alan Watts, Aristotle, biology, biomolecules, Charles Darwin, CHNOPS, embryogenesis, emergence, Etienne Gilson, Evolution, From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again, function, Galileo Galilei, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, life, Life Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus, origin of life, parts, primordial soup, science of purpose, structure, telos, The Book, Thomas Aquinas, whole, Zen masters
The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Source
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27Sep 2023 by Post

Former “Junk DNA,” STRs Found to Be “Rheostats” that “Precisely Regulate Gene Expression”

autism, binding kinetics, biology, cancer, Crohn’s disease, DNA, eukaryotes, Evolution, fine-tuning, gene expression, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, heaters, human genome, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, light dimmer, motor speed, motors, mutations, nucleotides, ovens, phenotypes, power control, proteins, regulatory elements, repetitive elements, rheostat, schizophrenia, Science (journal), Short Tandem Repeats, STRs, transcription factor
Rheostats are “often used as power control devices, for example to control light intensity (dimmer), speed of motors, heaters, and ovens.” Source
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25Sep 2023 by Post

Another “Vestigial” Organ Turns Out to Have “Absolutely Critical” Functions: The Human Yolk Sac

biology, blood, blood clotting, bone marrow, chickens, development, duck-billed platypuses, eggs, embryo, Evolution, evolutionary interpretations, function, human embryo, immune cells, Intelligent Design, kidneys, liver, multitasker, Muzlifah Haniffa, organ functions, PNAS, Science (journal), Science Alert, toxins, Uncategorized, vestigial organs, Wellcome Sanger Institute, yolk sac
Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations. Source
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23Sep 2023 by Post

Science, Scripture, and the Image of God

A. R. Hall, Bible, Christianity, Christopher Kaiser, Creation and the History of Science, creator, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, history, How the West Won, human mind, humans, image of God, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, intelligible order, lawgiver, logos, Museum of the Bible, natural world, Rodney Stark, The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800
"The proposition that the universe had an Intelligent Designer is the most fundamental of all scientific theories." Source
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22Sep 2023 by Post

Moran: Sternberg and Behe “Appear to Know More About Evolution than Their Opponents”

biology, Charles Darwin, constructive neutral evolution, David Klinghoffer, debates, Dragon, ENCODE, Evolution, genetic drift, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Malgorzata Moczydlowska-Vidal, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, Michael Ruse, natural selection, Poland, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg
The whole point of selection was to bias or direct the deliverances of chance variation, so that “luck” didn’t have to do all the work. Source
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