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05Dec 2023 by Post

Watch It Now: Tour and Cronin at Harvard

Assembly Theory, courage, creationism, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Harvard University, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Lee Cronin, natural selection, origin of life, permission, roundtable, scientists, universe, YouTube videos, YouTubers

Above all, major props to Lee Cronin for showing up at all. That took courage. He earns my admiration. Source

30Nov 2023 by Post

The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

articular bone, auricle, birds, cerebral cortex, ceruminous glands, cochlea, columella, deafness, ear, ear canal, eardrum, electrical signals, Engineering, equilibrium, fish, foresight, hair cells, hearing, Howard Glicksman, Human Origins, incus, Intelligent Design, malleus, middle ear, nasopharynx, natural selection, ossicles, outer ear, oval window, pinna, quadrate bone, reptiles, saccule, sound waves, stapes, Steve Laufmann, tectorial membrane, temporal bone, temporal lobes, tympanic membrane, utricle, vertebrates, vibrations, Your Designed Body

It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Source

07Oct 2023 by Post

A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace

"survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, Meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson

Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Source

30Sep 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”

abstract thought, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, biology, Charles Darwin, Chemistry, cosmology, dance, Evolution, gaps, human beings, human uniqueness, Intelligent Design, mathematics, Michael Flannery, music, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, principle of utility, survival advantage

When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings. Source

22Sep 2023 by Post

Moran: Sternberg and Behe “Appear to Know More About Evolution than Their Opponents”

biology, Charles Darwin, constructive neutral evolution, David Klinghoffer, debates, Dragon, ENCODE, Evolution, genetic drift, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Malgorzata Moczydlowska-Vidal, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, Michael Ruse, natural selection, Poland, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg

The whole point of selection was to bias or direct the deliverances of chance variation, so that “luck” didn’t have to do all the work. Source

18Sep 2023 by Post

How Evolutionary Theory’s Co-Founder Broke with Darwin

Alfred Russel Wallace, biology, Charles Darwin, Chemistry, cosmology, Evolution, Human Origins, ID The Future, intellectual history, Intelligent Design, Michael Flannery, Michael Keas, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, Podcast

Unlike Darwin, Wallace thought that biology, chemistry, and cosmology proclaimed clear evidence of intelligent design. Source

02Sep 2023 by Post

An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much

bacteria, biology, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, Darwin’s God, Dennis Venema, E. coli, Evolution, evolutionary theory, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, Podcast, protein-protein binding, Ray Bohlin, scientists, The Edge of Evolution, unguided evolution, vertebrate immune system

“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science," says Cornelius Hunter, "not because of the science.” Source

20Aug 2023 by Post

A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning

academic politics, Chemistry, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, DNA, Evolution, genes, genetic code, information, Intelligent Design, Marcello Barbieri, materialism, Meaning, natural selection, paradigm, physics, private truth, public truth, teleology, University of Ferrara

The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide. Source

25Jul 2023 by Post

Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma

amino acids, bacteria, bacterial cell division, bacterial cell wall, binary fission, biology, cell wall, cleavage, Evolution, foresight, glycosyltransferases, Gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Mycoplasma, natural selection, nisin, osmotic pressure, penicillin, penicillin-binding proteins, pentapeptide, peptides, peptidoglycan, peptidoglycan precursors, re-synthesis, self-replication, transpeptidases

Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate. Source

22Jul 2023 by Post

Richard Weikart on Racism, Darwinism, and Christianity

California State University, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian racism, ethics, Evolution, human dignity, human rights, ID The Future, Judeo-Christian tradition, natural selection, Podcast, Racism, random variation, Richard Weikart

If living things are only the result of chance processes, does human life have any intrinsic value? Source

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