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06Apr 2023 by Post

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

Anthropic Principle, astrobiology, biology, black holes, climatology, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmological constant, cosmological initial conditions, density of gas, density of stars, exobiology, fine-tuning, Frederik van Niekerk, fundamental forces, galactic disk, gas metallicity, geophysics, global tuning, habitability, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, life, local tuning, Nico Vorster, physical constants, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, planetary dynamics, Science and Faith in Dialogue, solar system, stellar evolution, supernova rate, universe, Weak Anthropic Principle

In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Source

04Apr 2023 by Post

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, biology, Christianity, compartmentalism, cosmology, creator, Epistemology, faith, Faith & Science, Francisco Ayala, Frederik van Niekerk, humanity, intellectuals, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian tradition, metaphysics, natural selection, Nico Vorster, NOMA, non-overlapping magisteria, physics, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert Boyle, Robert Grosseteste, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Sir Isaac Newton, soul, William of Ockham, Worldview

For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Source

02Apr 2023 by Post

Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution

breaking things, citrate, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, flasks, genes, genetic information, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, mutations, niche advantages, novelty, oxygen, Podcast

Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State. Source

31Mar 2023 by Post

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

agency, Andrea Roli, biology, computer science, economy, ecosystems, Engineering, Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, innovation, Intelligent Design, Johannes Jaeger, mechanistic science, naturalism, ontology, Philosophy of Science, scholars, scientific knowledge, Siberia, skating, social sciences, Stuart A. Kauffman, teleological behavior, teleology

Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Source

29Mar 2023 by Post

Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

Africa, bacteria, Biomimetics, birds, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinists, drone, Evolution, evolutionary pressure, human exceptionalism, human history, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, lawyers, Mark Rober, Michael Behe, NASA, Olufemi Oluniyi, owls, personification, pupfish, Rwanda, science, shopping, Social Darwinism, vitalism, Zipline

An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw. Source

28Mar 2023 by Post

Rescuing Evolutionary Theory from Darwinian Mythology

Charles Darwin, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Luther College, Michael Keas, natural selection, Podcast, Robert Shedinger, science, science history, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms

Robert Shedinger reports on the contrast between Darwin’s private view of his theory of natural selection and the public view as detailed in his published work. Source

23Mar 2023 by Post

Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

amniotes, amphibians, anamniotes, BIO-Complexity, biology, birds, blastula, bony fish, Charles Darwin, chondrichthyans, cleavage, common ancestry, David Swift, development, developmental biology, ectoderm, endoderm, Ernst Haeckel, Evolution, Evolution Under the Microscope, gastrulation, germ layers, homologous organs, homology, Intelligent Design, lancelets, mammals, mesoderm, neurulation, peer-reviewed literature, phylotypic stage, primates, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, science, teleosts, tissues, vertebrate development, vertebrate embryos, waiting-time problem

Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Source

21Mar 2023 by Post

Gilson: How a Teacher Wrecked Biology for Me, and How I Got Past It

biology, Culture, Education, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, high school, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Podcast, researchers, scientists, teachers, The Stream, Tom Gilson

His biology teacher could take an entire class period to tell Charles Darwin’s life story, and then repeat the same class, virtually verbatim. Source

20Mar 2023 by Post

The Role of Learning in the Honey Bee Waggle Dance

algorithms, Animal Algorithms, biology, brain, Carol Gould, distance, Evolution, honey bees, human language, information, insects, Intelligent Design, James Gould, programmed behavior, science, Science (journal), travel distance, waggle dance

Learning is largely a programmed behavior, governed by a type of algorithm, particularly for animals with limited cognitive ability. Source

18Mar 2023 by Post

Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture

Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charleston, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Evolution, history, Intelligent Design, James Moore, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Lake Superior, primary sources, Races of Man, Racism, Royal Agricultural College, S. P. Woodward, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, United States

Given the close relationship Louis Agassiz shared with pro-slavery factions in the South, Desmond and Moore focus much on Darwin’s relationship with Agassiz. Source

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