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07May 2023 by Post

Sandgrouse Takes the Royal Society to Design School

Africa, biology, Biomimetics, bird feathers, birds, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, chicks, Engineering, feathers, Flight, Intelligent Design, Jochen Mueller, Johns Hopkins University, Life Sciences, Lorna Gibson, males, MIT, Namaqua sandgrouse, nest, Royal Society Interface, Science and Faith in Dialogue, southwestern Africa, water

Episode guest Brian Miller talks with host Casey Luskin about the details of the ingenious design. Source

18Apr 2023 by Post

Do Plant Galls Falsify Darwinism?

biology, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, Evolution, geneticists, Germany, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Köln, Life Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mutations, natural selection, plant galls, plants, Podcast, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Charles Darwin was profoundly interested in plant galls, and Darwin himself proposed the challenge these and other forms may pose to his ideas. Source

03Apr 2023 by Post

In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology

Belgian supreme court, Belgium, biology, civilization, Constitutional Court, Culture, Culture & Ethics, emotions, Feelings, females, gender, Gender Dysphoria, Germany, irrationality, Life Sciences, males, society, Sudinfo, thought, transgenderism, Vincent Van Quickenborne

The attitude will metastasize across society and culture, eventually corroding our most fundamental institutions and societal structures. Source

02Apr 2023 by Post

Freeing Captured Orca Could Be Cruel

aquarium, belly flops, captivity, Culture & Ethics, killer whales, leaps, Life Sciences, Lolita, Miami Seaquarium, Miami-Dade County, New York Times, orcas, pod, The Dolphin Company, The Little Prince, Tokitae

I understand the motive, but this could be a case of ideology trumping actual animal welfare. And I can’t help thinking of the Little Prince’s fox. Source

30Mar 2023 by Post

Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

BIO-Complexity, biologists, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, common descent, Complexity, developmental pathway, embryo, embryonic development, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary processes, evolutionists, extraembryonic tissues, fish, gastrulation, homology, Life Sciences, Louise Roth, mammals, mutations, natural selection, P.Z. Myers, phylotypic stages, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, vertebrates

Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Source

18Feb 2023 by Post

Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Brazil, carnivorous plants, convergent evolution, Evolution, evolutionary pathway, Foresight (book), ID The Future, insects, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Marcos Eberlin, natural selection, plants, Podcast, Venus flytrap

The evolutionary mechanism of natural selection selects for current function, not potential future function. Source

17Feb 2023 by Post

Where Biology and Engineering Intersect: CELS 2023 Applications Are Open Now!

biologists, biology, Camp Copass, causal circularity, CELS, coherence, computer scientists, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Engineering, engineers, graduate students, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, living systems, medical practitioners, medical researchers, optimization, post-docs, process designers, systems modelers, Tally Retreat Center

This is not a conference for listening to ID thought leaders (though many will be there), but an opportunity to jump in and become part of the conversation. Source

07Feb 2023 by Post

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

abortion, American Pediatric Association, animal rights, animal welfare, Belgium, bioethics, birth, California, Canada, Culture & Ethics, doctors, ethics, Finland, France, Gender Dysphoria, gender-affirming care, geographical features, glaciers, Holocaust, human exceptionalism, human life, insects, Jews, Journal of Medical Ethics, Life Sciences, mastectomies, Netherlands, Ontario, Oregon, organ donation, peas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, plants, rivers, Sweden, unborn children, United Kingdom, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Source

04Feb 2023 by Post