Tag: adaptation

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 6, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Adam Shapiro, adaptation, argument from ignorance, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, civil rights, Constitutional rights, Covid, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, DNA, Dover v. Kitzmiller trial, Erasmus Darwin, Establishment clause, Evolution, Free Exercise clause, genetic information, God, God of the gaps, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0, Intelligent Design, intelligent design research, Journal of Molecular Biology, nanomachines, natural laws, Natural Selection, Natural Theology, Nature Nanotechnology, Ola Hössjer, Ola Hossjer, overlapping genes, problem of pain, reading frames, religious establishment, religious freedom, the journal Nature, The Origin of Species, The Waiting Times Project, Theism, waiting time problem, William Paley}

Casey Luskin and Adam Shapiro Debate Intelligent Design, Pt. 2

_{Casey Luskin

April 6, 2022

Intelligent Design}

This ID the Future continues the debate between design theorist Casey Luskin, an editor of The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, and science historian Adam Shapiro, co-author of Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction. Justin Brierley, of the popular British debate program Unbelievable?, hosts. In this second half of the conversation, Shapiro argues that intelligent design’s popularity seems to have waned. Casey Luskin counters, arguing that the number and frequency of New York Times articles on ID is a superficial metric and that the ID research program is exploding, with the number of peer-reviewed ID papers growing every year, and the number of interested graduate students, ID hubs, and conferences expanding around the world, including ID conferences attended by high-level scientists, including Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 22, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
adaptation, Animal Algorithms, animal behavior, bird navigation, Casey Luskin, chemotaxis, common ancestry, complex programmed behaviors, convergence, Convergent evolution, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, Eric Cassell, eusociality, Evolution, genetic engineering, geomagnetic reversal, gradualistic adaptation, ID 3.0, innate behavior, insect social behavior, instinct, Intelligent Design, intelligent design research, Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Natural Selection, neural networks, pheromone trails, pheromones, purpose, social colonies, social insect genomes, social insects, solitary behavior, spherical navigation, spiders, teleology, teleophobia}

Animal Algorithms Webinar Pt. 2: Author Q&A

_{Eric Cassell

December 22, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future is Part 2 of a recent live webinar with Eric Cassell fielding questions about his new book, Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the Mysterious Origin of Ingenious Instincts. He and host Casey Luskin explore the engineering wonders of web-spinning spiders and their extraordinary silk, and the challenge of transforming solitary insects into social insects (with their complex and interdependent caste systems) via a blind step-by-step evolutionary process, and the many thousands of genetic changes required. What does Cassell consider the best explanation? He invokes design theorist William Dembski’s work with No Free Lunch theorems to argue that blind processes are a no-go for explaining their origin. From there Luskin opens the webinar up to questions from the Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 15, 2019

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
__edited, adaptation, Darwin Devolves, devolution, Natural Selection, The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution}

Michael Behe on Natural Selection’s Inability to Build New Systems

_{Michael Behe

April 15, 2019

Evolution}

On this episode of ID the Future, biochemist Michael Behe speaks further about his new book Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution. Behe explains how evolutionists in the past had freedom to use their imaginations to suppose ways evolution could achieve major innovations, but new research at the molecular level now reveals obstacles previously unimagined. The most productive adaptations in nature tend overwhelmingly to be in one direction, Behe says, degrading or destroying genes, and no series of mutations have ever demonstrated the kind of coordinated effects needed to produce new systems.

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Author
ID the Future

Date
April 22, 2013

Tagged
__edited, adaptation, Charles, Nickell John Romjue}

I, Charles Darwin, Episode 2: The Fossils and the Tree

_{ID the Future

April 22, 2013}

Over the next several weeks, ID the Future will be presenting an audio adaptation of Nickell John Romjue’s fascinating book, I, Charles Darwin.

In today’s episode, Darwin explores what we’ve learned about the fossil record since his time on Earth — and it’s not what he expects.

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Author
ID the Future

Date
April 15, 2013

Tagged
__edited, adaptation, Charles Darwin, Nickell John Romjue}

I, Charles Darwin, Episode 1: London and the Galapagos

_{ID the Future

April 15, 2013}

Over the next several weeks, ID the Future will be presenting an audio adaptation of Nickell John Romjue’s fascinating book, I, Charles Darwin.

What would happen if Charles Darwin were to come back today? What would he think about the science of the twenty-first century, and how might it change his views on evolution? In today’s introductory episode, Darwin finds himself returned from the grave and begins to explore modern London, followed by a return trip to the Galapagos Islands, where he is surprised by what he learns.

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
February 21, 2012

Tagged
__edited, adaptation, body plans, Evolution: a Theory in Crisis, insects, living systems, Nature's Destiny}

Dr. Michael Denton on Predetermined Body Plans and Primal Patterns in Nature

_{Michael Denton

February 21, 2012}

On this episode of ID The Future, medical geneticist Dr. Michael Denton discusses the implications of insect body plans as predetermined types rather than collections of adaptations. Denton questions the ability of a Darwinian process to account for the patterns found in living systems. Denton suggests that, while there are countless variations or “adaptive masks” present in organisms, they all extend from original “primal patterns.” Tune in to hear this fascinating discussion! Dr. Denton is the author of Evolution: A Theory in Crisis and Nature’s Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 22, 2011

Tagged
__edited, adaptation, Atheist, Evolutionary Psychologist, Matt Rossano, Supernatural Selection}

Evolutionary Psychologist: Religion is an “Adaptation” but not a “Universal Acid”

_{Casey Luskin

December 22, 2011}

On this episode of ID The Future, Casey Luskin discusses recent comments by evolutionary psychologist Matt Rossano disclaiming the idea that evolution poses any threat to belief in God. Yet in his recent book Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved, Rossano contends that religion evolved as an adaptation and was not created by God. “The more we understand evolution, the less it seems neither like the bogey man creationists fear nor the universal god-dissolving acid some atheists crave.”Join Luskin as he unpacks Rossano’s conflicting viewpoints and adds some interesting points of his own.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 28, 2011

Tagged
__edited, adaptation, Biologic Institute, Complex Adaptation}

Testing Evolution and Finding It Wanting: An Interview With Douglas Axe

_{Casey Luskin

February 28, 2011}

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his interview with Biologic Institute director Douglas Axe about his new paper, “The Limit of Complex Adaptation: An Analysis Based on a Simple Model of Structured Bacterial Populations,” in BIO-Complexity.

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
February 23, 2011

Tagged
__edited, adaptation, Biologic Institute, Complex Adaptation}

Complex Adaptations Challenge Darwinian Evolution: An Interview With Douglas Axe

_{Douglas Axe

February 23, 2011}

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews Biologic Insitute director Douglas Axe about his peer-reviewed paper in BIO-Complexity, “The Limit of Complex Adaptation: An Analysis Based on a Simple Model of Structured Bacterial Populations.”