Cornelius Hunter on More “Junk” DNA That Turned Out To Be Crucial

_{Cornelius Hunter

June 17, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Cornelius Hunter, author of Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism, talks about new findings on so-called “junk” DNA. Evolutionary theory predicts lots of such “Darwinian detritus” that does nothing for organisms. That prediction keeps coming up false. “Satellite DNA” was one form of DNA thought to be junk, and left on the back burner by researchers. But now it’s been found to be both crucial — for the fertility of male fruit flies — and species-specific. Evolutionary theory expected none of this, though it gamely accommodate it, Hunter explains. How? By moving the goalposts.

brown lacewing imprisoned in baltic amber

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Günter Bechly

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March 11, 2019

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__edited, Cladistics, common descent, Darwinism, Evolution, fossil evidence, Fossil Record, insects, Intelligent Design, marine arthropods, Metamorphosis, missing links, transitional fossils, winged insects}

Günter Bechly: Rich Fossil Record Says No to Insect Evolution

_{Günter Bechly

March 11, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Günter Bechly, paleoentomologist and former curator for amber and fossil insects for the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, talks with host Andrew McDiarmid about evidence for macroevolution among insects. The fossil record is “saturated,” Bechly says. By that he doesn’t mean there aren’t new fossil forms to discover. Bechly himself has discovered several. He means we have an extensive enough sampling to confidently discern the major patterns of change and stasis in the history of life. And it shows no sign of insect evolution. It shows no transition from marine arthropods to terrestrial insects, none from wingless insects to winged insects, and no gradual evolution to insects (such as beetles and butterflies) that go through a metamorphosis that includes a pupal stage. And evidence for common ancestry is either contradictory or missing. In short, Bechly argues, the insect fossil record is much better explained by intelligent design than blind evolution.

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Winston Ewert

Date
October 15, 2018

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__edited, BIO-Complexity, Biologic, common descent, common design, computer code, Darwin’s tree of life, Darwinism, dependency graph, Dependency Graph of Life, Evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, hierarchical classification of life, Homology, Intelligent Design, module, modules, nested hierarchy, Robert J. Marks, software, software modules}

Dependency Graph, Pt. 2: Winston Ewert Defends His Groundbreaking New ID Model

_{Winston Ewert

October 15, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Winston Ewert continues unpacking his new hypothesis challenging Darwin’s tree of life. Ewert is a software engineer, and his new model is inspired by the coder strategy of repurposing existing code, called modules, for different projects. Moreover, some of these modules depend on other modules, meaning you can generate a dependency graph to better understand the similarities and differences among software programs that share modules. Ewert argues that a dependency graph model better explains the pattern of similarities and differences in the history of life, better than a model of common descent by unguided evolution. As he also explains, the new model is testable in multiple ways.

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Winston Ewert

Date
October 10, 2018

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__edited, Biologic, common descent, common design, computer code, Convergent evolution, Darwin’s tree of life, Darwinism, dependency graph, Dependency Graph of Life, Evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, hierarchical classification of life, Homology, Intelligent Design, nested hierarchy, software}

Winston Ewert Unpacks his New ID Model, the Dependency Graph–Pt. 1

_{Winston Ewert

October 10, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, guest host Robert J. Marks talks with Dr. Winston Ewert about Ewert’s groundbreaking new hypothesis challenging Darwin’s common descent tree of life. The new model is based on the well-established technique of repurposing software code in different software projects. Ewert, a senior researcher at Biologic and the Evolutionary Informatics Lab, describes the nested hierarchical pattern of life and how any credible theory of life’s origin and diversity must explain it. He then describes how Darwin’s basic theory fits, and doesn’t fit, the pattern, and the various ancillary mechanisms invoked to close the gaps. These patches include horizontal gene transfer, convergent evolution, and incomplete lineage sorting. Ewert then cues up what he argues is a better, more elegant hypothesis, the common design hypothesis laid out in his peer-reviewed technical paper available here.

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Casey Luskin

Date
April 27, 2015

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__edited, common descent, Ernst Haeckel}

The Top 10 Problems with Darwinian Evolution, pt. 8

_{Casey Luskin

April 27, 2015

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On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his series discussing the top 10 problems with biological and chemical evolution. This series is based upon Casey Luskin’s chapter in the volume More than Myth, edited by Paul Brown and Robert Stackpole (Chartwell Press, 2014). In this segment, Casey discusses the eight problem: differences between vertebrate embryos and how they contradict the predictions of common ancestry.

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Casey Luskin

Date
April 23, 2015

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__edited, common descent, Convergent evolution}

The Top 10 Problems with Darwinian Evolution, pt. 7

_{Casey Luskin

April 23, 2015

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On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his series discussing the top 10 problems with biological and chemical evolution. This series is based upon Casey Luskin’s chapter in the volume More than Myth, edited by Paul Brown and Robert Stackpole (Chartwell Press, 2014). In this segment, Casey discusses the seventh problem: how convergent evolution challenges Darwinism and destroys the logic behind common ancestry.

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Casey Luskin

Date
April 20, 2015

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__edited, common descent, Tree of Life}

The Top 10 Problems with Darwinian Evolution, pt. 6

_{Casey Luskin

April 20, 2015

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On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin continues his series discussing the top 10 problems with biological and chemical evolution. This series is based upon Casey Luskin’s chapter in the volume More than Myth, edited by Paul Brown and Robert Stackpole (Chartwell Press, 2014). In this segment, Casey discusses the sixth problem: how molecular biology has failed to yield a grand “Tree of Life.”

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Casey Luskin

Date
December 13, 2014

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__edited, common descent, Fossils, human origins}

On Human Origins: What the Fossils Tell Us, pt. 4

_{Casey Luskin

December 13, 2014

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On this episode of ID the Future, hear more of Casey Luskin’s recent talk at a recent Science and Human Origins conference. Casey discusses why the fossil evidence doesn’t support the claim that humans evolved from ape-like precursors.