A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body

biology, bodily functions, Complexity, Darwinism, evolutionary theory, gradualism, hearing, Howard Glicksman, human body, Intelligent Design, interdependent systems, just-so stories, Medicine, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, physicians, Steve Laufmann, systems engineering, vision, Your Designed Body
Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body — the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems. Source
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Stephen Meyer and Company Answer Questions about Science and Faith

Cambridge University, Chance and the Sovereignty of God, Culture, Darwin's Doubt, Discovery Institute, evolutionary biology, faith, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, John West, Jonathan McLatchie, New York Times, Newcastle University, Podcast, Redeeming Mathematics, Redeeming Philosophy, Redeeming Science, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sattler College, science, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess, University of Strathclyde, Vern Poythress, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, Westminster Theological Seminary
The conference was jointly sponsored by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture and Westminster Theological Seminary. Source
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Jerry Coyne — An Evolutionist and His Ideology

bacteria, Bernard Kettlewell, Biston betularia, Christmas Eve, courage, creationists, Evolution, Icons of Evolution, industrial melanism, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Judith Hooper, melanism, Melanism: Evolution in Action, Michael Majerus, natural selection, Nature (journal), Of Moths and Men, peppered moth, Santa Claus, scientific evidence, textbooks, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Why Evolution Is True
At least some others have the courage to stand for what they believe even in the face of potential criticism. Source
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Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives

atheists, Brian Keating, Catholicism, Christianity, cosmologists, Culture, debate, Design Inference, faith, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Into the Impossible, James Tour, Judaism, Lawrence Krauss, natural philosophers, New Atheists, philosophy, proselytizing, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, Toronto, UC San Diego
Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Source
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Your Designed Body: Hearing Is a Symphony of Parts

air pressure, auditory system, cell's, cochlea, eardrum, Evolution, hearing, Howard Glicksman, human body, impedance transformation, incus, inner ear, inner ear canals, Intelligent Design, malleus, middle ear, nerve impulses, Organ of Corti, outer ear, pinna, pipe organ, pitch, stereo sound, Steve Laufmann, tendons, tympanic membrane, volume, Your Designed Body
The human ear can detect sound when the eardrum is displaced by as little as one-tenth the diameter of a single hydrogen atom. Source
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Springtails: Wingless Arthropods that Can Fly

abdomen, Adrian Smith, Antarctica, Arthropoda, arthropods, biology, Collembola, Darwinism, Entognatha, etymology, Evolution, furcula, Georgia Tech, Hexapod Gap, hexapods, imitation, insects, Intelligent Design, Isotomurus retardatus, just-so stories, Latin, Namib desert, non-insects, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, PNAS, popcorn, Sandra Schachat, Science Uprising, South Korea, springtails, Stanford University, unfolding, Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez
The fossil record shows a “Hexapod Gap.” Unfortunately for Darwin, the two leading theories to explain the gap can be ruled out. Source
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Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

Anabarites, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrotubulus, Carboniferous, Cloudina, Conotubus, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran, embryos, Evolution, Fortunian, fossils, Gaojiashania, Intelligent Design, Kimberella, Mongolia, Namacalathus, Namapoikia, paleontology, Permian, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Protohertzina, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Tommotian, Trilobozoa, wormworld
We have much to teach the non-professor, and I trust that he is grateful for the education being rendered to him here. Source
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