24Oct 2022 by Post

Reeves: A Rising Star Describes a Biological Revolution

bacteria, biochemistry, biology, computer scientist, emergent properties, Emily Reeves, engineers, Evolution, foresight, hierarchical integration, integration, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jim Esch, materialism, purpose, Reductionism, science, signaling networks, silicon, Systems Biology, Technology
“Engineers more easily recognize impressive design because they have actually tied to build stuff.” Source
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13Jun 2022 by Post

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, Anthony O’Hear, biology, consciousness, cosmogonism, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, Evolution, Francis Crick, How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, The Origin of Species, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe
Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Source
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04May 2022 by Post

Using the Positive Case for Intelligent Design to Answer Common Objections to ID

"God of the gaps", argument from ignorance, BioLogos Foundation, biology, Brown University, Charles Marshall, CSI, Denis Lamoureux, Evolution, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, paleontologists, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), UC Berkeley, University of Alberta
As for the “God of the gaps” charge, the basic objection is that ID is an argument from ignorance, based upon what we don’t know. Source
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08Apr 2022 by Post

Brain Neurons Are “Comparable to a Library”

axon, biology, brain, Brown University, Duke University, external world, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, library, Max Planck Institute, NELL2, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, pinwheels, proteins, purpose, retina, Robo3, Rockefeller University, visual cortex
It’s one of those occasions in biology (not rare) when the term “intelligent design,” despite other merits, falls flat as a description. Source
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11Mar 2022 by Post

Jaw Dropping: Nature’s Irreducibly Complex Linkage Mechanisms

bicep, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, biology, brain, Bristol University, cycling, dragonfish, engineers, Eric Anderson, Evolution, Great Britain, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, mantis shrimp, muscles, Olympics, parrotfish, Podcast, satellites, sling-jaw wrasse, Stuart Burgess
Bristol University engineer Stuart Burgess goes deeper into the marvels of such sea creatures as the parrotfish, sling-jaw wrasse, and mantis shrimp. Source
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27Jan 2022 by Post

Navigation Ability Crosses Phylum Lines — And That’s a Problem for Evolution

algorithms, Angular Head Velocity, Animal Algorithms, ants, backtracking, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, calculus, Cambrian phyla, casting, Darwinian theory, Eric Cassell, goldfish, hardware, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Life Sciences, mammals, Nature (journal), Nature Communications Biology, navigation, Neuron (journal), neurons, olfaction, phyla, PNAS, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, sea turtles, software, University of Toronto
Yes, that is kind of adorable. It took only a few days for the fish to learn to drive. Source
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18Jan 2022 by Post

Eugenie Scott Lecture Resurrects, Spreads Misinformation on Intelligent Design

academic freedom, American Museum of Natural History, baraminology, biology, Cambridge University Press, cats, creationist, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, explanatory filter, free speech, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Leslie Orgel, Michael Behe, Michael J. Katz, misinformation, persecution, Richard Sternberg, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Smithsonian Institution, specified complexity, Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns, The Origins of Life, UC San Diego, William Dembski, Young Earth Creationism
There often seems to be a subtext to her remarks, as if she were telling her audience: “Go forth and persecute.” Source
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29Dec 2021 by Post

The Year in Review: Three Major Advances for Intelligent Design

agnostics, Ann Gauger, atheists, biology, CELS 2021, Center for Science & Culture, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, ecological interactions, Engineering, Evolution, Günter Bechly, holism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Junk DNA, materialistic philosophy, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, Ola Hössjer, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, William Dembski
The situation resembles a poorly constructed dam holding back water that is continuously rising. Source
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09Dec 2021 by Post

Nothing New Under the Sun

Anthony Flew, Argument from Complexity, Aristotle, Atheism, British Rationalist Association, Cicero, Cristian Bandea, DNA, electron microscope, Epicurus, Eric Metaxas, Faith & Science, First Cause, Galen, God of the Details, intellectual history, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Is Atheism Dead?, Lucretius, Methodist revival, Paul Davies, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Mind of God, The Necessity of Atheism, The Return to the God Paradigm, Welsh revival
The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions. Source
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