12Oct 2020 by Post

Repentant Biology Journal Offers a Weak Rebuttal to Its Own Pro-ID Fine-Tuning Paper

biological networks, biology, Carl Sagan, Darwin's Doubt, Design Inference, DNA, George Tech, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Faith, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Journal of Theoretical Biology, logical fallacies, molecular motors, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Ola Hössjer, protein complexes, rarity, Simon Conway Morris, specification, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Kauffman
The authors close by quoting Carl Sagan’s famous adage that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Do they offer that kind of evidence? Source
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02Oct 2020 by Post

Despite Darwinists’ Cancel Culture, Intelligent Design Has a Breakthrough in Biology Journal

A Mousetrap for Darwin, agriculture, Ann Gauger, biology, cancel culture, censorship, Center for Science & Culture, CiteScore, creator, Darwinists, disclaimer, Discovery Institute, discrimination, Douglas Axe, Foresight (book), free speech, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Marcos Eberlin, mathematical statistics, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Nobel laureates, Ola Hössjer, peer-review, Return of the God Hypothesis, Robert J. Marks, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm University, The Fitness of Nature for Mankind
The article survived peer-review and was accepted for publication despite the open hostility of the journal’s top editors! Source
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18Sep 2020 by Post

Reform It Altogether — More on the Naturalistic Parabola

adaptive biological complexity, Ann Gauger, biology, Calvin College, Christianity, complex systems, design triangulation, Discovery Institute, Evolution, evolutionary biology, functional analysis, hamlet, Intelligent Design, Macroevolution, Michael Lynch, Michael Scriven, natural selection, naturalism, Naturalistic Parabola, Rob Koons, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminar, Wayne State University, William Dembski
I’ve fussed about this point for a long time. And Discovery Institute colleagues have occasionally chided me for my obsession. Source
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02Sep 2020 by Post

Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

academic freedom, American Revolution, arson, consensus, conservatives, Darwinism, David Coppedge, Douglas Axe, free speech, French Revolution, God and Man at Yale, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, John Adams, looting, Marxism, Oregon, Portland, Richard Sternberg, rioting, Roger Kimball, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, The New Criterion, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Thomas Jefferson, Tony Woodlief, University of Portland, Wall Street Journal, Wesley Smith, William F. Buckley Jr., Willmoore Kendall, Yale University
In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” Source
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01Sep 2020 by Post

Andrew Sullivan, Meet Richard Sternberg

Andrew Sullivan, canary in the coal mine, cancel culture, censorship, Evolution, free speech, human dignity, human exceptionalism, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Michael Egnor, New York Magazine, News Media, Race, Richard Sternberg, Rod Dreher, scientists, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, The Bell Curve, The New Republic
This is another illustration of what Michael Egnor and others have said: intelligent design was the “canary in the coal mine” when it comes to cancel culture. Source
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17Aug 2020 by Post

Stephen Meyer and James Tour: Tonight, a Wide-Ranging and Personal Conversation

abiogenesis, chemical evolution, Christianity, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, faith, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, James Tour, mind, origin of life, physical processes, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin
Does life's origin reflect the activity of a mind, or do blind, purely physical processes alone serve as a fully satisfactory explanation? Source
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23Jul 2020 by Post

In Carbon Isotope Excursions, Darwinists Lose Another Excuse for the Cambrian Explosion

animals, arthropods, biology, bioRxiv, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian fossils, Cambrian News, Cambrian phyla, Canada, carbon, carbon isotope excursions, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian tree, Ediacaran explosion, Ediacaran fossils, Evolution, fossil record, Gaskiers deglaciation, geochemistry, Newfoundland, Oman, oxygen, PNAS, Proterozoic Eon, Stephen Meyer, Uncategorized
The claim that a spike in carbon isotope concentrations led to the explosion of biological diversity in the Cambrian doesn’t hold up, as if it would have helped, anyway. Source
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