25Feb 2025 by Post

Pointing to Design, Ross Douthat Makes the Case that Religious Belief Is Rational

Artificial Intelligence, Belief, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, carbon dioxide, Christianity, consciousness, disenchantment, fail, Faith & Science, freedom, hamlet, intelligence, Intelligent Design, metaphysics, multiverse, New York Times, open-mindedness, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholics, Stephen Meyer, Tao Lin, Technology, telescope, universe, water, Zondervan
He kicks off the book by talking about the evident design in nature and the fine-tuning of the universe. Source
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31Oct 2024 by Post

What Science Owes to Faith, Hope, and Love

beauty, Edwin Chargaff, empirical data, empiricism, Evolution, explanatory scope, Faith & Science, faith and science, germ theory, John Williams Draper, knowing, Paul Dirac, philosophy, physical world, predictiveness, scientific theories, scientism, Secularism, Steven Weinberg, testability, truth, Warfare Myth, water
It's a stretch to say that our ability to do realist science arose from a mindless process of evolution. Source
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20Sep 2024 by Post

Challenges to the Evolutionary Origins of the Glycolytic Pathway

adenosine triphosphate, amino acids, ATP, biochemical pathway, causal circularity, cellular respiration, citric acid cycle, Complexity, condensation reaction, electron transport chain, Engineering, enzymes, Evolution, fructose, glycolysis, glycolytic pathway, hexokinase, hinge, Intelligent Design, Keith Webster, mind, oxidative phosphorylation, oxygen, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate, unguided evolution, universal common ancestor, water
The complexity and engineering sophistication comport much better with the hypothesis of design. Source
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17Sep 2024 by Post

Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

brainstem, cardiopulmonary arrest, cell membrane, cell's, chemical concentration, chemicals, death, diffusion, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, extracellular fluid, extraterrestrial life, Genetica, Google AI, Günter Bechly, hospice, information, Intelligent Design, intracellular fluid, just-so stories, liquid water, Medicine, molecular machines, multicellular organism, neurons, osmosis, potassium ions, protein, sodium, sodium ions, sodium-potassium pump, Steve Laufmann, The Extracellular Space (series), The Wonder of Water, water, Your Designed Body
The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Source
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26Mar 2024 by Post

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

astrobiologists, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, DNA processors, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, life, Life Sciences, nucleotide operations, ocean surface, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, processing speed, prokaryotes, supercomputers, Titan supercomputer, United Kingdom Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water, yottabases, yottaNOPS
Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Source
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21Nov 2023 by Post

Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence

Antarctica, arson, biology, carbon dioxide, Dead Sea Scrolls, design detection, Evolution, geological history, Greenland Ice Sheet Project, intelligence, intelligent agency, Intelligent Design, Lake Vostok, magnetic field, Michael Egnor, minds, natural forces, Paul Nelson, probability, shales, water, Willaim Dembski
The Dead Sea Scrolls are an example of a design artifact for which intelligence is inferred as the source. Source
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05Sep 2023 by Post

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

"survival of the fittest", abductive inference, adaptation, blind drivers, CELS, Charles Darwin, Charles Kocher, Columbia University, Current Biology, Darwinian Evolution Machine, driver, driverless car, Engineering, equilibrium, Eric Anderson, Evolution, fitness ratcheting, fitness valleys, golfers, gravity, Herbert Spencer, ignition, Intelligent Design, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ken Dill, Mars, Mars rovers, molecular machines, New Zealand, orbits, planets, PNAS, rollercoaster, Science Advances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selective pressure, software, sponges, TEDx talk, University of Otago, University of Sydney, Victoria University, water
What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Source
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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
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