24Sep 2021 by Post

Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

adaptive mechanisms, aluminum soils, analyzers, biology, biophysicists, cave fish, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, dog breeds, Engineering, engineering model, environmental conditions, evolutionary theory, gene regulatory network, gulls, hair, Harold Garner, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, John Fondon, Laridae, Life Sciences, maize, Midas cichlids, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, Ralf Sommer, sodium, temperature, yeast
Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Source
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22Sep 2021 by Post

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

abdomen, Anomalocaris, aphids, arthropods, beetles, Berlin, bioengineers, biology, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, chelicerates, crickets, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, Evolution, flies, gnats, honeybees, Intelligent Design, Marrella, MIT, pill bugs, PNAS, praying mantises, spider-silk, spiders, Stephen Meyer, thorax, trilobites
They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Source
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20Sep 2021 by Post

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Has Left a Legacy of Confusion over Biological Adaptation

adaptation, Biological Emergences, biology, brain, cave fish, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Evolution, externalism, hurricane, Intelligent Design, internalism, Jerry Fodor, John Gerhard, Marc Kirschner, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Mother Nature, natural selection, New York Times Book Review, Phreatichthys andruzzii, Pocahontas, Richard Lewontin, Robert G. B. Reid, Stephen Jay Gould, sweating, What Darwin God Wrong, William Paley
Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions. Source
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18Sep 2021 by Post

Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design

Brent Spiner, Darwinism, forensic science, Holly Else, Intelligent Design, Matthew Hutson, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Mind Matters, Nature (journal), Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Caputo, peer-review, PNAS, Robert J. Marks, Silicon Valley, Sleeping Beauty, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starship Troopers, William Dembski
Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should. Source
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17Sep 2021 by Post

Major “Ibero-American Intelligent Design Congress” Reaches the Spanish-Speaking World

Ana María Garzón Porras, Antonio Roman Martinez Fernandez, biology, Brazil, Central America, Costa Rica, Cristian Aguirre Del Pino, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Honduras, Human Origins, Intelligent Design, Juan Manuel Torres, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Quezia Salgado, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ricardo Bravo Méndez, Roberto Biaggi, São Paulo, Saulo Reis, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars
I had fantastic translation assistance from a Summer Seminar alumnus and valued colleague, Quezia Salgado, and my talk went well. Source
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16Sep 2021 by Post

Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers

blood pressure, cats, cochlear hair cells, Darwinism, Dogs, Evolution, evolutionary theory, information, Intelligent Design, lobsters, Mitra Hartmann, neuron firings, Nicholas Bush, Northwestern University, PNAS, rabbits, rats, rodents, Sara Solla, sea lions, touch-screen phone, Vg neurons, whiskers, whisking
Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.” Source
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