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03Jul 2023 by Post

The Design of the Seminal Fluid and Sperm Capacitation

acrosome, antibodies, ATP, capacitation, cilia, clotting factors, contraceptives, egg, egg membrane, enzymes, Evolution, fibrin, flagellum, foresight, fructose, head, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, liquefaction, male infertility, Medicine, middle piece, non-hormonal contraceptives, reproductive tract, semen, seminal fluid, seminal vesicles, serine proteases, sperm cells, zona pellucida

There is no cause in the universe that is known to have such a capacity of foresight other than intelligent design. Source

02Jul 2023 by Post

PBS, Darwin, and Dover: An Interview with Phillip Johnson

Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin on Trial, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Judge John E. Jones, Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial., Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, NOVA, PBS, Phillip Johnson, UC Berkeley

Johnson was one of the only intelligent design proponents interviewed for and included in PBS’s science series NOVA in an episode about the Dover case. Source

30Jun 2023 by Post

On the Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

acrosin, acrosome, acrosome phase, bacterial flagellum, biology, calcium ions, cap phase, capacitation, cervix, Daniela Nicastro, DNA, dyneins, egg cell, ejaculation, Evolution, fertilization, fertilized egg, flagellum, foresight, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Golgi phase, haploid genome, Harvard University, human reproduction, hyaluronidase, infant, Intelligent Design, intent, intercourse, Irreducible Complexity, Jianfeng Lin, middle piece, mitochondria, ovum, reproduction, reproductive tract, seminal fluid, sperm cells, sperm flagellum, teleology, uterine tubes, uterus, zygote

Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Source

26Jun 2023 by Post

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

bacterial flagellum, braking system, bushing, bushings, cell membrane, clutch, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, Evolution, flagellar synthesis, FleQ, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, machine, machinery, Michael Behe, microorganisms, mutation rate, natural selection, nitrogen metabolism, NtrC, outboard motor, point mutations, population size, Professor Dave, protein science, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, terminology, The Scientist, Theoretical Population Biology, twitching motility, type IV pilis, universal joint, YouTubers

The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Source

24Jun 2023 by Post

How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Friends

abductive reasoning, caricature, colleagues, dialogue, Evolution, Evolution News, family members, friends, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, materialism, misinformation, Podcast, Socratic method, straw man, The Stream, Tom Gilson

There is so much misinformation about the theory of ID that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature, a straw man. Source

22Jun 2023 by Post

Blood Viscosity and Freezing Temperatures — A Titanic Problem

Antarctic icefish, antifreeze protein, BIO-Complexity, biology, blood, blood viscosity, capillaries, Channichthydiae, fish, freezing, glycoprotein, Gregory Sloop, heart, hemoglobin, hemoglobinless blood, human blood, icefish, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, marine biology, Montana, oxygen, physicians, Southern Ocean, temperatures, Titanic, vasculature

Blood viscosity is the technical reason why Jack froze in less than 23 minutes, but icefish can survive for 15 years in water of a freezing temperature. Source

20Jun 2023 by Post

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

Bertrand Russell, biology, biomolecules, chemical reactions, Chemistry, Evolution, form, function, Intelligent Design, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism

The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Source

16Jun 2023 by Post

What Do We Know about the Origin of Rhinos?

African elephant, African savanna, biology, Ceratotherium simum, DNA, Donald R. Prothero, Evolution, fossil record, Intelligent Design, Microevolution, mutations, Niles Eldredge, rhinoceroses, Rhinocerotidae, rhinocerotids, Rhinocerotoidea, Stephen Jay Gould, superfamily, Teletaceras, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Although they are not the handsomest or most graceful creatures in the animal kingdom, the Rhinocerotoidea (superfamily) are a fascinating group for research. Source

15Jun 2023 by Post

Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis, on Twitter

Amazon, Christianity, cosmology, Dave Farina, empiricism, Energy, Evolution, faith and science, history, humility, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, logic, matter, Philosophy of Science, realism, reason, Return of the God Hypothesis, Robert Boyle, Stephen Meyer, TBN, theists, Twitter, William Dembski

"God is a hypothesis. What Dr. Meyer does is evaluate that hypothesis against the latest scientific evidence of the last century." Source

14Jun 2023 by Post

All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

autonomous weapons, Buying God, Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions, China, consciousness, David J. Gunkel, emotions, Eve Poole, hard problem of consciousness, human beings, ineffability, Intelligent Design, junk code, Leadersmithing, machines, Neuroscience & Mind, Northern Illinois University, personhood, Robot Souls, robots, Russia, Ryota Kanai, sixth sense, soul, Taylor & Francis, TechXplore, The Economist

In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Source

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