Paul Nelson

On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Paul Nelson joins Michael Medved to talk about some of the most fantastic creatures of spring — butterflies and birds — and the argument they present for intelligent design. To further explore the evidence for design from butterflies and birds, see the documentaries Metamorphosis: the Beauty and Design of Butterflies, and Flight: The Genius of Birds.

What does the future look like for intelligent design? That’s the question on this episode of ID the Future, where we talk with philosopher of biology Paul Nelson about the hope he has for the scientific challenge to Darwinian evolution and shares his advice for future scientists.

On this episode of ID the Future, Paul Nelson concludes his series on common descent. Nelson and Luskin take a look at a recent paper addressing phylogenies and data which seems to conflict with common descent.

This episode of ID the Future features the fourth in a series of interviews with Dr. Paul Nelson on common descent. Listen in as Dr. Nelson continues his analysis of common descent at the level of the phylogeny of animal groups.

This episode of ID the Future features the third in a series of interviews with Dr. Paul Nelson on common descent. Listen in as Dr. Nelson continues his analysis of the evidence for common ancestry by examining the single-tree picture of common ancestry and how this picture is affected by the newly discovered diversity of genetic sequences.

This episode of ID the Future features the second in a series of interviews with Dr. Paul Nelson on common descent. Listen in as Dr. Nelson continues his analysis of the evidence for common ancestry and how the theory is affected by failed predictions. Click here to listen to Part 1.

This episode of ID the Future features the first of a series of interviews with Dr. Paul Nelson on common descent. Casey Luskin of the CSC asks Dr. Nelson a series of illuminating questions: Is intelligent design compatible with common descent? What is his view of common descent, and how is it related to the origin of life? As the theory of common descent does not tell us whether or not the tree of life was designed, there are design theorists on both sides of this debate. Listen in as Dr. Nelson gives his analysis of the evidence for common ancestry and how the theory is affected by failed predictions.

On this episode of ID the Future, CSC Fellow Paul Nelson discusses von Baer’s Law and the recent critiques of this evolutionary hypothesis.

On this episode of ID The Future CSC senior fellow and philosopher of biology Paul Nelson argues that regardless of court orders banning discussion of intelligent design, given the history and structure of evolutionary theory, philosophical issues related to design in nature will come up in the classroom. In science classrooms today the allowed scientific playing field is multidimensional. There is the empirical axis, or observational information, and the analytical axis, truth of mathematics and logic. Where then does Darwin’s argument from the Origin of Species fit into the classroom?

This episode of ID the Future features a clip of Discovery senior fellow Paul Nelson speaking at the 2006 ID Under Fire conference on the double-standard of ID in scientific journals. Dr. Nelson tells the story of how critics of intelligent design fault it for being merely a “religious idea,” then proceed to respond to the scientific case made by biochemist Michael Behe.