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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07Jul 2021 by Post

New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum

bacterial flagellum, biology, Colorado State University, computer science, cost, costs, dependency network, design triangulation, dimensions, energy needs, Engineering, form, helical propeller, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, logic controls, materials, motility, Paul Nelson, propulsion, redirection, signals, Steve Laufmann, Systems Biology, timing, Waldean Schulz, Waterfall Model
This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years. Source
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10Jun 2021 by Post

Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

Alvin Plantinga, complex specified information, computer program, Darwinian evolution, eyes, God and Other Minds, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Lydia McGrew, minds, philosophers, purpose, purposeful arrangement, spandrels, specified complexity, specified small probability, Stephen Meyer
A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Source
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14May 2021 by Post

Study Challenges Evolutionary Relationship Between Flagellum and Type III Secretory System

ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, Cell (journal), Darwin's Black Box, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Evolution, Howard Ochman, human technology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jiaxing Tan, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover, last bacterial common ancestor, Michael Behe, molecular machines, motors, Nature Reviews Microbiology, New Scientist, propeller, pumps, rotary engine, Salmonella, Sophie S. Abby, T3SS, University of Arizona
There are various types of flagella, but all function like a rotary engine made by humans. Even non-ID scientists marvel at the complexity of these machines. Source
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21Apr 2021 by Post

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

angiosperms, Cambrian Explosion, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, convergence, creator, Darwinists, Diether Sperlich, Free University, genetics, Gestalt, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Karl von Goebel, Köln, Life Sciences, logos, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Mexico, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Theo Eckhardt, United States, University of Bonn, Utricularia, Wilhelm Troll, Wistar Symposium, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, zoology
Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Source
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25Dec 2020 by Post

Reuben’s Story — A Light in Troubled Times

Atheism, biochemistry, biology, Center for Science & Culture, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, Education and Outreach Initiative, encouragement, Foresight (book), Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Marcos Eberlin, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, purpose, Summer Seminars, United Kingdom, YouTube videos
"Methodological naturalism is a very depressing thing to be told is the truth," says an 18-year-old correspondent. "Your work may have saved my life." Source
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18Dec 2020 by Post

Excerpt: An Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution

American Museum of Natural History, bacterial flagellum, Brown University, Cambridge University Press, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Debating Design, Evolution, function, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, John McDonald, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, key chain, Michael Ruse, National Center for Science Education, paperweight, parts, Paul Davies, Richard Swinburne, rotary propulsion, Stuart Kauffman, toothpicks, type III secretion system, William Dembski
Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. Source
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03Dec 2020 by Post

A Physician Describes How Behe, and Intelligent Design, Changed His Mind

A Mousetrap for Darwin, biochemistry, biological machines, Biomimetics, Charles Darwin, Christianity, computational biology, Erik Strandness, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, faith, Faith & Science, human body, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Joshua Swamidass, Justin Brierley, Lutheran Church, Medicine, neonatal medicine, physicians, Richard Dawkins, Spokane WA, theistic evolution, Unbelievable?
There’s no better tribute to the power of ideas than a changed mind. Erik Strandness is a physician in Spokane, WA, practicing neonatal medicine. Source
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