Is This a Transitional “Missing Link” for Giraffes? Nope

abrupt appearance, ancestors, bedtime story, blood circulation, cell's, Darwinian theory, Evolution, fossil record, giraffe evolution, giraffes, giraffe’s neck, heart, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, missing link, okapi, Samotherium major, taxon, transitional fossils, variations, vertebrae, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, zoology
The giraffe’s fossil record reflects a pattern of abrupt appearance rather than the infinitesimally small variations. Source
Read More

Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

"God of the gaps", abiogenesis, bacterial flagella, biochemists, bioinformatics, debates, demarcation criteria, DNA, Douglas Axe, Evolution, falsifiability, glacial-interglacial cycles, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, Keith Fox, Michael Behe, Peter S. Williams, philosophers, predictions, protein folds, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, Tim McGrew, type III secretion system, Unbelievable?
With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Source
Read More

Fascinating Hypothesis from Weinstein: Repetitive “Junk” DNA Stores Integer Variables

biological processes, Bret Weinstein, chromosomes, Discovery Institute, DNA, embryonic development, ERVs, evo-devo, Evolution, evolutionary biology, function, gene expression, genes, genetics, genome, integer variables, Intelligent Design, Joe Rogan, Jonathan McLatchie, Junk DNA, microsatellites, repetitive DNA, Richard Sternberg, supporters, telomeres, variables
This opens up a world of potential functions for repetitive DNA that open-minded scientists can consider. Source
Read More

Listen: Stuart Burgess Details Examples of Your Body’s Ultimate Engineering

anatomy, Darwinian expectations, Engineering, Evolution, eye, habitats, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, lab coats, locomotion, middle ear, nervous system, origins, Richard Dawkins, scientific theories, structures, systems, theories of origins, Ultimate Engineering, wrist joint
He’ll relate the time he and famed biologist Richard Dawkins debated, and he’ll remind us why we are all qualified to evaluate scientific theories of origins. Source
Read More

Yet Another Demonstration that Life’s Origin Required an Intelligent Agent

Cambridge, candor, chemical evolution, chemical processes, early Earth, Edoardo Gianni, England, experiments, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, James Tour, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, nucleotide chains, nucleotides, origin of life, physical processes, primer, protocell, QT45, reagents, RNA, RNA replicator, RNA world, Rob Stadler, Science (journal), water
James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Source
Read More

Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers”

Alex O’Connor, Bayesian reasoning, cosmology, fine-tuning, Hans Halvorson, Humean probabilities, Intelligent Design, likelihood ratio, Luke Barnes, mathematicians, metaphysics, monotheistic tradition, multiverse, Ned Hall, Nevin Climenhaga, personal beliefs, philosophers, philosophy, physics, plausibility, podcasters, Presbyterians, priors, probability, psychological states, Robin Collins, Sean Carroll, spacetime, subjective inclinations, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, theoretical physicists, Thomas Bayes
Using Sean Carroll’s criticisms of the fine-tuning argument as a general guide, I propose to address objections to that argument, Source
Read More

Sophistication of Bee Decision-Making Is a Mystery, Unless Design Hypothesis Is Permitted

animal behavior, Apis mellifera, bees, behavior, behavioral decisions, brain, communication systems, decision-making, depth, Engineering, flower print, flowers, food, foraging, honeybees, Intelligent Design, Lars Chittka, learning, mantids, memory, mimicry, nectar, noise, pollen, predators, primates, psychology, Punishment, quinine, Radar, reward, signal-to-noise ratio, spiders, sugar, trade-offs, University of Sheffield, vegetation, World War II, zoology
Distinguishing a real flower from a flower print on a woman’s dress can come into play, possibly requiring some experimental probing. Source
Read More

Axe and Luskin on the Design Intuition and Its Critics

beta-lactamase, Cambridge, Casey Luskin, cookies, design intuition, Douglas Axe, dragonflies, England, enzymes, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mutation, peer-reviewed research, philosophers, Podcasts, protein scientists, scientific reasoning, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theophobes, Undeniable (book)
The numbers don’t lie. So why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Axe’s research? Source
Read More

Burgess: Design of Human Body Greatly Surpasses Human Engineering

anatomy, ankles, biology, Boeing 747, brain, design framework, dexterity, engineers, Evolution, evolutionary process, human body, human engineering, Intelligent Design, joint lubrication, knees, mathematics, mutations, Peter Sterling, prosthetic limbs, robotic limbs, robots, Simon Laughlin, Stuart Burgess, synovial fluid, Technology, Ultimate Engineering, wiring
Embracing the evolutionary narrative requires one to abandon one’s belief in mathematics. Source
Read More

Happy Darwin Day! Significance of New Book on Human Anatomy Cannot Be Overstated

"poor design", anatomy, biology, bridges, design logic, Duke University, dysteleology, Engineering, Evolution, human anatomy, human body, Human Errors, human spine, Intelligent Design, joints, knee, load-baring capacity, longevity, motion, Nathan Lents, optimal design, Steven Vogel, Stuart Burgess, suboptimal design, teleology, tinkering, Ultimate Engineering, upright walking, vertebral disks
Dr. Burgess's own research proved that knee joint geometry and supporting structures are optimally designed to achieve multiple objectives. Source
Read More