Tag: Evolutionary Biology

3d rendered medically accurate illustration of a fetus at week 20

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Author
David Galloway

Date
June 6, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Charles Darwin, childbirth, Christian theism, circulatory system, Darwin, Darwinism, David Galloway, DNA error correction, DNA replication, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, fetal development, foresight, Fossil Record, genetic code, genetics, Geoffrey Simmons, goal-directed systems, God, gradualism, hard problem of consciousness, human endocrine system, human fetus, Intelligent Design, intentionality, irreducible complexity, Kinesin, lungs, Michael Behe, mind, Molecular Machines, motor proteins, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, neuroscience, placenta, selectable advantage, split brains, spontaneous generation, teleology, Theism}

David Galloway: The Fetal Circulatory System is Irreducibly Complex

_{David Galloway

June 6, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, distinguished British physician and author David Galloway explains why he’s convinced that the human fetal circulatory system is irreducibly complex and therefore beyond the reach of blind gradualistic evolution to have built. In his conversation with host and fellow physician Geoffrey Simmons, Galloway also mentions some molecular machines that he’s convinced are irreducibly complex and shout intelligent design. The occasion for the conversation is Galloway’s new book, Design Dissected.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 15, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
abductive reasoning, Alvy Singer, Alvy’s Error, Annie Hall, Atheism, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, freedom, God, God hypothesis, Harold J. Berman, Intelligent Design, James Davison Hunter, Materialism, methodological naturalism, Michael Shermer, moral absolutes, moral argument for God, moral objectivism, moral relativism, Morality, Naturalism, nature red in tooth and claw, Origin of the Species, Paul Nedelisky, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Science and the Good, skepticism, sociobiology, Stephen C. Meyer, Theism, Woody Allen}

Pt. 2: Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 15, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future continues a lively and cordial conversation between atheist Michael Shermer and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this segment of the four-part series, Shermer and Meyer discuss a fourth argument for theism, the moral law within. Then they discuss the similarities and differences between inferring design for something like the Rosetta Stone versus inferring intelligent design from the information in DNA or the fine tuning of the universe. The interview is reposted here by permission of Michael Shermer.

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
February 1, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
A Mousetrap for Darwin, ATPase, Chloroquine, chloroquine resistance, complex traits, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Dollo’s Law, eukaryotes, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, foresight, fungi, gene duplication, genetic mutations, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Joseph Thornton, Larry Moran, Laurence A. Moran, Louis Dollo, malaria, malaria parasite, maliarology, Natural Selection, neutral evolution, Nicholas White, random mutations, steroid hormones, steroid receptor hormone, The Edge of Evolution, time-symmetric Dollo’s law, University of Toronto, V-ATPase, Vacuolar-type ATPase}

A Mousetrap for Blind Evolution, and Larry Moran

_{Michael Behe

February 1, 2021

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future concludes our series on A Mousetrap for Darwin, Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe’s new book on evolution and intelligent design. Here Behe and host Eric Anderson tackle an objection to Behe’s work from evolutionary biologist Larry Moran. Moran says that while the Darwinian process may find it difficult to find any particular solution requiring evolutionary innovation, there are countless possible solutions to a given problem, not just the one solution that evolution did hit upon and that is under investigation. According to Moran, Behe failed to take this into account, a factor that greatly enhances the chances of blind evolution to engineer novel solutions to ecological challenges. Behe counters that Moran’s objection misses the force of Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 17, 2020

Tagged
__edited, biology, Charles Darwin, cormorants, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, flightless cormorants, Galapagos Islands, Intelligent Design, macroevolution, marine iguanas, Microevolution, natural history, Natural Selection, Natural Theology, tameness, The Natural Limits to Biological Change, The Origin of the Species, Voyage of the Beagle, William Paley}

Paul Nelson Visits the Galapagos Islands, Pt. 2

_{Paul Nelson

February 17, 2020}

On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson continues his discussion with host Andrew McDiarmid about Nelson’s recent visit to the Galapagos Islands, made famous by Charles Darwin. Nelson explains how Darwin was right — partly. Darwin urged biologists to consider the history of a plant or animal, an idea that was much neglected in the work of his predecessors. As Darwin’s experience on the Galapagos showed, and as Nelson’s experience there echoed, history must be part of our explanation for how species and populations have become the way they are today. At the same time, there are demonstrated limits to evolutionary change, Nelson argues, and so natural history alone cannot be the entire explanation for Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
May 15, 2013

Tagged
__edited, abiogenesis, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, Evolutionary Biology}

Dr. Stephen C. Meyer: The Mystery of the Origin of Genetic Information

_{Stephen C. Meyer

May 15, 2013}

On this episode of ID the Future, hear the second part of Casey Luskin’s interview with Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, author of the forthcoming book Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. Dr. Meyer discusses how the origin of information in the Cambrian explosion poses a problem for evolutionary biology.