The Ingenious Cellular Structure that Keeps Us Alive

biology, cell's, chemical balance, chemicals, Darwinian theory, Energy, Engineering, Eric Anderson, friction, heat transfer, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID The Future, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, matter, Medicine, organisms, physicians, Podcast, Steve Laufmann, system of systems, systems engineers, Your Designed Body
In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Voila! Source
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For “Convergent Evolution,” Darwinists Offer Awkward Explanatory Tinkering

animals, Arabidopsis, biology, circuits, co-evolution, common ancestor, convergent evolution, Darwin on Trial, Drosophila, Evolution, hair trigger, immune response, immune systems, Intelligent Design, kingdoms, Life Sciences, logic, natural selection, nematode, NLR-o-gram, pathogens, Phillip Johnson, plants, proteins, robustness, Science (journal)
How clever of separate kingdoms of organisms to have figured all this out independently! Source
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More to Love about Springtails, Those Adorable Gymnasts

Adrian Smith, Ant Lab, Arthropoda, collophore, convergent evolution, Cyrille D’Haese, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, deserts, dry deserts, engineers, Evolution, evolutionists, fungus, furcula, Günter Bechly, gymnasts, habitats, Harvard University, ice deserts, Intelligent Design, Mark Stevens, Mollusca, mouthparts, rotting wood, science fair, sea slugs, Spain, springtails, stasis, Subterranean Biology, The Conversation, Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society, zoology
Does it have to be called an “evolutionary success” instead of a success? The word “evolutionary” performs no function. It is also contrary to the evidence. Source
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Could Genetic Mutations Be Non-Random? New Evidence for Mutational Bias

Africa, African sleeping sickness, APOL1, Daniel Melamed, diseases, Engineering, Evolution, genes, genetic mutations, genetics, genomes, germline genome, haploid, heterozygotes, HindIII, homozygotes, Intelligent Design, Israel, malaria, MEMDS, mutation DNA, Mutation Enrichment followed by Maximum Depth Sequencing, mutation frequency, mutations, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, randomness, restriction enzyme, sperm, sperm DNA, Trypanosoma brucei, University of Haifa, wild-type DNA
The researchers examined the emergence of a mutation in the human APOL1 gene that confers protection from African sleeping sickness. Source
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Oldest Ancestor of Modern Sea Turtles Was — A Sea Turtle

Atlantic Ocean, Cape Cod, dinosaurs, Drew Gentry, endangered species, Evolution, hawksbill sea turtle, humans, hypothermia, Indian Ocean, Intelligent Design, jellyfish, leatherback sea turtles, Mozambique Channel, reptiles, Scientific Reports, sea turtles, snapping turtle, snorkeling, Sumatra, tragedy of the commons, Turtle Conservation Technical Operating Unit, University of Alabama, zoology
There are seven species of sea turtles in the world today, all beautifully designed and, sadly, all endangered. Source
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Solzhenitsyn and the Demon of Evil: Peter Robinson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn in Conversation

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, artists, Atheism, Cavendish, Communism, continents, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, earth, ethics, exile, Faith & Science, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Intelligent Design, interviews, music, musical instrument, musicians, Peter Robinson, pianists, Russia, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, Vermont
The demon of evil circles, sometimes uncloaked, other times cloaked in various guises, including the guise of faith. Source
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Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

AI Overview, Archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, Intelligent Design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, Law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine
Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Source
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Sexual Reproduction: Engineered for Success

Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, egg, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary theory, fertilization, forethought, goal, human reproduction, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, natural selection, Podcast, purpose, seminal fluid, sexual reproduction, sperm, sperm capacitation
I continue a three-part discussion with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie on why sex is the queen of problems for evolutionary theory. Source
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Math, Mystery, and the Mind of God: A Conversation

beauty, Faith & Science, faith and science, Hoover Institution, Ideas, Intelligent Design, mathematical structure, mathematics, Peter Robinson, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Princeton University, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Sergiu Klainerman, Stanford University, The Republic, Uncommon Knowledge, universe
The discussion takes place against a stunning Alpine background, which is appropriate since the mysterious beauty of mathematics, is a theme. Source
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