27Aug 2021 by Post

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

"poor design", bioinformatics, biological structures, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, Eva Balsa-Canto, Evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, Intelligent Design, Julio R. Banga, Junk DNA, knee, Living with Darwin, Nathan Lents, Nikolaos Tsiantis, optimality, pelvis, Philip Kitcher, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia
Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Source
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23Aug 2021 by Post

End of the Road for the Intelligent Design Debate?

biology, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Derek Gatherer, DNA, emergence, Evolution, evolutionary mechanism, Intelligent Design, John Thomas, Michael Behe, Michel Morange, P. A. Braillard, Pam Mantri, proteins, Reductionism, Stephen Meyer, stigmergic teleology, synthetic biology, Systems Biology
A key question is how long biologists can argue that life looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it is actually a cat. Source
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20Aug 2021 by Post

Did the New York Times Just Give a Covert Nod to Meyer’s “God Hypothesis”? 

Alfred North Whitehead, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Johannes Kepler, Judeo-Christian tradition, New York Times, Order of Things, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer
What’s different is that this time around, the discussion is far more favorable towards Meyer’s position. Here’s what columnist Ross Douthat says Source
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19Aug 2021 by Post

Meyer in the Jerusalem Post: Farewell to the Purposeless Cosmos

Africans, atheists, causal circularity, Charles Murray, computer code, DNA, Douglas Murray, faith, Faith & Science, First Cause, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerusalem Post, Jordan Peterson, molecular machines, New Atheists, New New Atheists, Phil Torres, Privileged Planet, Return of the God Hypothesis, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, supernatural, Tom Holland
From living in South Africa for more than four years, I got a good sense of African perspectives on atheism. Source
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18Aug 2021 by Post

In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists Explore “Waiting Times” for Coordinated Mutations

Ann Gauger, arthropods, Avalon explosion, binding sites, Cambrian Explosion, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0 research project, Intelligent Design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, marbles, mutations, nucleotides, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed literature, polynomial, regulatory regions, Springer, Stochastic Processes and Applications, tetrapods, vascular plants, waiting-time problem
The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Source
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17Aug 2021 by Post

Tonight, New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality for Origin-of-Life Researchers

"building blocks" of life, academic fraud, Airgas, amino acids, Brian Miller, carbohydrates, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Change Laura Tan, Evolution, experiments, heart disease, heart failure, Intelligent Design, Jeff Bada, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, nucleotides, origin of life, Pier Luigi Luisi, prebiotic Earth, reagents, researchers, Stanley Miller, The Stairway to Life, YouTube videos
In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around. Source
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15Aug 2021 by Post

Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

Canadians, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, collective unconscious, combinatorial problem, Dan Tawfik, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Douglas Murray, epicycles, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, H. Allen Orr, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Van Maren, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, naturalism, neo-Darwinists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, protein folding, Ptolemy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Weizmann Institute
It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Source
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13Aug 2021 by Post

Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic

aliens, background knowledge, car break-in, debate, Fran Lebowitz, IBE, inference to the best explanation, Intelligent Design, James Croft, motives, philosophers, philosophy, reductio ad absurdum, Return of the God Hypothesis, sensory experience, Skeptics, Stephen Meyer, Substack, William Dembski, windshield
I think he’s mistaken my emphasis in the specific car break-in examples I gave, namely that the burglars’ behavior was odd and unpredictable. Source
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