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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 15, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

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Atheism, Cambridge University Press, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, Evolution, evolutionary informatics, evolutionary theory, Harvest House Publisher, Intelligent Design, Marcos Eberlin, Materialism, No Free Lunch, Phillip Johnson, philosophical materialism, Science and faith, scientific revolutions, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Design Inference, Walter Bradley, Winston Ewert}

Bill Dembski Teases the 2021 Dallas ID Conference

_{William A. Dembski

February 15, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future, intelligent design pioneer William Dembski talks with host Robert Crowther about his return to the intelligent design arena and what he’s been up to during his time away from the front lines of the ID movement. He also gives a sneak preview of the talk he plans to give at this Saturday’s Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. The February 20 conference is open to both in-person and live online attendance. To learn more about this exciting event, and to register, go here.

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 9, 2020

Categorized
Evolution

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A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, biochemistry, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwin’s test, Darwinism, Evolution, evolutionary theory, irreducible complexity, molecular biology, molecular evolution, Molecular Machines, mousetrap, Neo-Darwinism, The Origin of Species}

Michael Behe on the Battle of the Mousetraps

_{Michael Behe

December 9, 2020

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, Michael Behe responds to the attacks on … his mousetrap. Behe used the common mousetrap to illustrate the idea of irreducible complexity, showing how various mechanical contrivances need all of their main parts to function, and to show how irreducible complexity poses a major challenge to Darwinism’s idea of gradual, step-by-step evolution of some biological machines. Most of the attacks on Behe’s argument have focused on the irreducibly complex biological systems he spotlighted, such as the outboard motor known as the bacterial flagellum. But some of his critics fixated on the mousetrap itself, and argued that the mousetrap wasn’t actually irreducibly complex. Behe rebuts these counterarguments and explains why he’s convinced they fail. The discussion Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 14, 2020

Categorized
Evolution, Intelligent Design

Tagged
Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropocentrism, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian theism, Darwinian theists, Darwinism, Deborah Haarsma, Edinburgh University, Edmund Grant, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Collins, freethinkers, HMS Beagle, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, Janet Brown, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mind/body, philosophical materialism, Plinian Society, Theism, theistic evolution, Theory of Evolution, Tom Wolfe, William Dembski, World of Life}

Michael Flannery on the Origin of Darwin’s Worldview

_{Michael Flannery

October 14, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design}

On this episode of ID the Future, science historian and host Michael Keas talks with fellow science historian Michael Flannery about the newly updated book Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russell Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwin. Flannery tells of Darwin’s involvement in the Plinian Society, a “freethinkers” group at Edinburgh University where he studied medicine as a teenager. It was there that he first encountered radical philosophical materialism, the worldview that laid the philosophical foundation for his work in evolution. Flannery also speaks of Alfred Russel Wallace’s “intelligent evolution” and how it differs from Darwinism and from today’s theistic evolution — what Flannery prefers to call “Darwinian theism.”

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
September 21, 2020

Categorized
Culture, Ethics

Tagged
__edited, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Determinism, Eugenics, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Galton, Free Will, imperialism, Margaret Sanger, Materialism, nature vs. nurture, scientific racism, The Descent of Man}

Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism

_{Richard Weikart

September 21, 2020

Culture, Ethics}

On this episode of ID the Future, historian and Cal State Stanislaus emeritus professor Richard Weikart speaks with host Michael Keas about the dark history of “scientific” racism. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
April 29, 2020

Categorized
Culture

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__edited, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Manes, Darwinism, David Attenborough, Earth First, embryonic recapitulation, Eugenics, Evolution, evolutionary theory, German colonialism, Green Rage, human dignity, human zoos, James Lee, John Derbyshire, Peter Singer, racial differences, scientific Materialism, scientific racism, survival of the fittest, the Second Reich, Thomas Malthus}

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 1

_{John G. West

April 29, 2020

Culture}

On this episode of ID the Future, catch the first half of talk political scientist John West recently gave on how Darwinism has poisoned Western culture. In the lecture, delivered at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, West explores how Darwin’s purely materialistic theory of evolution drained meaning from nature, undercut the idea of inherent human dignity, and fueled the rise of scientific racism in the twentieth century.

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 30, 2020

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__edited, arthritis, Chloroquine, cinchona tree, coordinated mutations, coronavirus, COVID-19, Edge of Evolution, evolutionary theory, hydroxychloroquine, lysosome, malaria, Natural Selection, pandemic, quinine, zika virus}

Michael Behe on COVID-19, Chloroquine, Malaria and the Edge of Evolution

_{Michael Behe

March 30, 2020}

On this episode of ID the Future, biochemist Michael Behe and host Andrew McDiarmid discuss the anti-malarial drug chloroquine, now being investigated as a treatment for COVID-19, and how it may work on the cellular level against the coronavirus. The same drug was featured in Behe’s 2007 book The Edge of Evolution, as part of his demonstration that evolution has strict limits: It can do adaptive work for organisms with single mutations, but if just two coordinated mutations are required at once, evolution’s random processes have great difficulty even with natural selection helping them along. In cases where population sizes are enormous, as with malaria, it can eventually overcome the need for two simultaneous and coordinated mutations, but only just Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 16, 2019

Tagged
__edited, action at a distance, Alfred Russell Wallace, Ann Reed, Charles Darwin, Darwin Centennial, Darwinism, evo-Devo, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary theory, Isaac Newton, Jean Gaynon, just-so stories, mechanical philosophy, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), NCSC, Peter Singer, symbiotic ecosystems, The Origin of Species, universal Darwinism}

Michael Flannery on the Unraveling of the Darwinian Paradigm

_{Michael Flannery

December 16, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, host Mike Keas speaks with science historian Michael Flannery about Darwinism, Past, Present, and Future, in which Flannery wonders about an L.A. Times op-ed by Ann Reid, director of the pro-Darwinism lobby group The National Center for Science Education.

Ann Gauger on Emerging Clues to Life’s Design

_{Ann Gauger

October 25, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid shares biologist Ann Gauger’s recent article on emerging clues to life’s design, and how the “Darwinian Regime” tends to ignore them. One stubborn bit of biological evidence Gauger highlights is the fact that cells can’t make life-essential ATP, NAD, and other metabolic co-factors without having ATP, NAD, and the other co-factors there first. It’s a “daisy chain of causal circularity woven by what must be an intelligent designer,” Gauger comments. Or as she also puts it, “It’s chickens and eggs, all the way down.”

Video still from Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

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Author
David Gelernter

Date
October 2, 2019

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
__edited, biological information. What it takes to generate information, Cambrian Explosion, computer, Darwinism, David Gelernter, Dissent from Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary theory, molecular biology, Neo-Darwinism, population genetics, Proteins, scientific beauty, Species, waiting times}

David Gelernter, Stephen Meyer, David Berlinski Challenge Darwinism, Pt. 1

_{David Gelernter

October 2, 2019

Evolution}

Part one of an uncommon trio of experts speaking on the mathematical challenges to Darwinian evolution. Stephen Meyer and David Berlinski join David Gelernter with Peter Robinson moderating. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 22, 2019

Categorized
Evolution, Life Sciences

Tagged
__edited, biochemistry, comparative difficulty, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, David Snoke, degradative evolution, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Gregor Mendel, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Johann Gregor Mendel, Joseph Thornton, mathematical evolution, Richard Lenski, Ronald Fisher, Sir Ronald Fisher}

Michael Behe on the Darwinist Math Mirage

_{Michael Behe

April 22, 2019

Evolution, Life Sciences}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid continues his series with Michael Behe about Behe’s new book Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution. Here Behe explains the “Revenge of the Principle of Comparative Difficulty,” According to this principle, evolution it is much easier for evolution to create a new adaptive niche by damaging one or more genes than even the simplest new genes and irreducibly complex structures. Along the way, Behe also explores how biology got enamored of mathematical theory built on “hopeful ignorance” regarding the nature of genes.