Tag: Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 13, 2021

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cancel culture, Casey Luskin, common descent, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, dogmatic Darwinism, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Icons of Evolution, Intelligent Design, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis?, Jonathan Wells, Neo-Darwinism, scientific dogmatism, scientific Materialism, scientific paradigm, the journal Nature, The Myth of Junk DNA, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, Zombie Science}

Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis?

_{Jonathan Wells

October 13, 2021}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, and specifically, an essay in the new anthology by biologist Jonathan Wells, “Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis?” As Wells and host Casey Luskin note, the essay title alludes to philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn’s influential 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn argued there that if one studies the history of scientific revolutions, one finds that when the scientific evidence has begun to turn against a dominant scientific paradigm—when its days are numbered— its adherents do not simply concede defeat. Instead they use all their institutional power to suppress dissent and punish proponents of any competing paradigm. This is the period of crisis, which can last Read More ›

Michael Behe Still from Secrets in the Cell

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
November 18, 2020

Categorized
Evolution

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appearance of design, bacterial flagellum, biochemistry, Biological Information, Bruce Alberts, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, DNA, Eric Davidson, Evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, genetic information, information, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Lehigh University, Michael Levine, molecular biology, molecular machinery, Neo-Darwinism, origins science, protein nanomachines, scientific consensus, scientific paradigm, The Edge of Evolution, unguided evolution}

Michael Behe Reads from His New Book

_{Michael Behe

November 18, 2020

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe reads from A Mousetrap for Darwin, his latest book making the case against blind evolution and for intelligent design. The volume contains some brand new material alongside a substantial collection of essays he’s written over the years in response to critics of his three previous intelligent design books. His pro-Darwin critics have jumped all over Behe. Some have even claimed he’s ignored their objections. A Mousetrap for Darwin gives the lie to that charge. Behe has answered his critics, and done so decisively, in everything from the New York Times and prominent blogs to major science journals. Listen in as he lays the groundwork for his fourth fascinating book, in Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Reeves

Date
June 1, 2020

Categorized
Science

Tagged
__edited, Alfred Russell Wallace, cells, Charles Darwin, common descent, Darwinism, DNA, explanatory deficits, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Gerd Müller, Günter Bechly, Homology, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Isaac Newton, macroevolution, Microevolution, modern synthesis, molecular machinery, nanomachines, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, protoplasm, Robert Boyle, Royal Society of London, speciation, survival of the fittest, teleology}

Of Natural Selection, Explanatory Deficits, and Bunnies Dark and Light

_{Daniel Reeves

June 1, 2020

Science}

On this episode of ID the Future we hear the first part of Discovery Institute Education Outreach Associate Daniel Reeves’ talk at the 2020 Dallas Science and Faith Conference. Reeves outlines the meaning of natural selection, and traces its history, starting from Darwin’s early understanding, in the days when cells were viewed as just blobs of protoplasm. Reeves carries the story from there through the neo-Darwinian modern synthesis and into the extended evolutionary synthesis, culminating in a 2016 meeting of the Royal Society on the theory’s continuing — and still unresolved — explanatory deficits.

Storey's Way and the main entrance of Churchill College, Cambridge in June 2019.

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
May 22, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Douglas Futuyma, epigenetics, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Galton Institute, Gerd Müller, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Kevin Laland, Lamarckism, Materialism, Naturalism, Niles Eldredge, Royal Society of London, Stephen J. Gould, teleology, Templeton Foundation, University of Cambridge}

First the Royal Society Meeting, Now Cambridge’s “Evolution Evolves”: Paul Nelson Reports

_{Paul Nelson

May 22, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, intelligent design proponent and philosopher of biology Paul Nelson reports on a recent conference he attended at the University of Cambridge, “Evolution Evolving: An International Conference on the Evolving Mechanisms and Theoretical Framework of Evolutionary Biology.” Scientists from around the globe gathered under the operating assumption that the modern evolutionary synthesis is sorely lacking. As with many of the biologists who attended the 2016 Royal Society meeting “New Trends in Evolutionary Biology,” many of the attendees of the Cambridge event find themselves disenchanted with Neo-Darwinism and weighing their options. They’re still not looking outside the walls of the “City of Naturalism,” Nelson says, but it’s fascinating and encouraging to witness the increased openness Read More ›