Tag: foresight

Female Eurasian brown bear and her cubs in boreal forest

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Author
Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Date
January 23, 2023

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Amy Davison, bilayer membrane, bottom-up design, cell membrane, complex specified information, Darwinism, DNA, embryology, evolutionary gradualism, evolutionary theory, foresight, genetic information, Hillary Morgan Ferrer, Intelligent Design, Mama Bear Apologetics, Marcos Eberlin, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, orphan genes, Outgrowing God, Paul Nelson, reproductive thermoregulation, reverse engineering, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, termites, Theory of Evolution, top-down design}

Mama Bear Apologetics Takes on Atheist Richard Dawkins

_{Hillary Morgan Ferrer

January 23, 2023

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future puts atheist Richard Dawkins’s book Outgrowing God under the microscope and reveals multiple ways his argument smashes up against contrary scientific evidence. Walking us through the critique are author and Mama Bear Apologetics founder Hillary Morgan Ferrer and her co-host, Amy Davison. Dawkins invokes the beautiful order evident in the murmuration of bird flocks as evidence that complexity can evolve from simple algorithmic rules. But Ferrer explains why the phenomenon of bird murmuration doesn’t even begin to approach what we find when sophisticated engineering order emerges in the growth of embryos. Ferrer also considers the challenges of re-engineering sperm thermoregulation to move from how it works in marine life to how it works in land animals. Read More ›

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Author
Steve Laufmann

Date
January 11, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
biochemistry research, coherence, coordination, Darwinism, engineering, engineering principles, Evolution, evolutionary gradualism, foresight, Howard Glicksman, human physiology, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Michael Egnor, orchestration, planning, protein folding, push-pull principle, specialization, Steve Laufmann, systems biology, the rule of composition, Your Designed Body}

A Neurosurgeon and an Engineer Explore Your Designed Body

_{Steve Laufmann

January 11, 2023

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor hosts systems engineer Steve Laufmann, author with physician Howard Glicksman of the new book Your Designed Body. Egnor makes the surprising confession that his medical library is full of engineering texts because at some point he discovered that engineering texts, and engineering principles, often shed more light on human physiology than did his physiology books. Egnor, then, is extraordinarily well prepared to interview Laufmann about the amazing engineering of the human body. Tune in for Part 1, and stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 20, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
antibiotic resistance, Apologetics 315, appearance of design, bacterial flagellum, BioLogos, Brian Auten, Brian Josephson, cancer research, Casey Luskin, Chad Gross, Charles Townes, chemotaxis, cosmology, cures for cancer, Darwinian Evolution, evolutionary creationism, fine tuning, foresight, Francis Collins, Galactic Habitable Zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0, Intelligent Design, intelligent design research, Marcos Eberlin, nano-drills, nanobots, peer-reviewed intelligent design papers, population genetics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Romans 1, State Museum of Natural History, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm Syndrome, Stuttgart Germany, systems biology, teleology, theistic evolution, unguided evolution, waiting times project, Wikipedia}

Casey Luskin on Why He Favors ID over Theistic Evolution

_{Casey Luskin

July 20, 2022

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future continues intelligent design theorist Casey Luskin’s conversation with Apologetics 315 podcast hosts Brian Auten and Chad Gross. Here in Part 2, Luskin give a peek behind the scenes of ID 3.0, the current research program inspired by the intelligent design framework. Luskin is then asked to explain his reservations about theistic evolution, and Luskin points out the evidential, rhetorical, and logical problems he sees with the brand of theistic evolution advocated by Francis Collins and Biologos. What about the future of the intelligent design movement? Luskin says he’s optimistic, both because of the exciting research and publication breakthroughs of late, and because of the many converts he’s seeing to the ID framework. According to Luskin, many of these Read More ›

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
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 ›

Beautiful dragonfly sitting on flower in a summer garden

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 8, 2020

Categorized
Intelligent Design, Science

Tagged
__edited, antibiotics, Bacteria, biomimetics, Butterflies, cicadas, foresight, fruit flies, Intelligent Design, sea skaters, stem cells}

Intricate Optimized Insect Designs – via Evolution?

_{Andrew McDiarmid

July 8, 2020

Intelligent Design, Science}

On this episode of ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid draws on an essay at Evolution News & Science Today to explore some intricate optimized insect designs that are inspiring human engineers and raise the question, could evolution have done that? Cicadas and dragonflies use an exquisitely engineered “bed of nails” on their wings to disarm and neutralize bacteria. Butterflies and bird feathers also use this trick. There are fruit flies that have multiple navigation systems, complete with error correction for hard turns. And the sea skater insect is able to walk on water and launch itself explosively thanks to an impressive combination of engineering marvels. Did evolution really bring all those design factors together? Or was something else required Read More ›

University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in North Oakland

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
June 18, 2020

Categorized
Intelligent Design, Science

Tagged
__edited, ACLU, atheist scientists, Balanced Treatment Case, Charles Darwin, Chicago Bulls, circular causality, demarcation problem, Discovery Institute Summer Seminars, Elie Wiesel, explanatory power, foresight, Larry Laudan, National Academy of Sciences, philosophy of science, psychoanalysis, role of assumptions, science and religion, Sigmund Freud, The Last Dance, Thomas Kuhn, Top-down causation, Wendell Bird, William Blake, William Paley}

Design in a Naturalistic Culture

_{Paul Nelson

June 18, 2020

Intelligent Design, Science}

On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher of science Paul Nelson speaks with host Andrew McDiarmid about pursuing intelligent design theory in a naturalistic culture. Nelson springboards from his appreciation for his University of Pittsburgh mentor Adolf Grünbaum, with whom he shared the kind of friendship that can come from caring deeply about the same things, even if taking different positions on them. He speaks of what it means to hold a minority position, and some of the potential pitfalls that come with holding a majority position — and the danger we can all face of seeking polemical advantage rather than truth.

Microbiology. Antibodies attack virus. 3d illustration

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
April 27, 2020

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine

Tagged
__edited, antibodies, Bacteria, biomimetics, convalescent serum, coronavirus, COVID-19, Evolution, foresight, gamma globulin, herd immunity, hydroxychloroquine, immune system, Intelligent Design, novel coronavirus, pathogens, polio, remdesavir, skin, social distancing, viruses, Vitamin D, white blood cells}

Coronavirus Response: Design in Nature and Medical Science

_{Geoffrey Simmons

April 27, 2020

Ethics, Medicine}

On this episode of ID the Future, internal medicine specialist Dr. Geoff Simmons speaks with host Andrew McDiarmid about his recent Evolution News article on the body’s response to the coronavirus, our immune system. It comprises an enormously complex enterprise with adaptive memory for millions of pathogens and the ability to keep on learning more. Researchers study it to learn how to create vaccines for diseases like COVID-19. Their work is one of intelligent design from start to finish. But, Simmons says, we ought to recognize that it starts with studying systems in our bodies that are even more intelligently designed. One might object that if our immune system were intelligently designed, it would be utterly immune to all pathogens, Read More ›

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
August 26, 2019

Tagged
__edited, carnivorous plants, convergence, Convergent evolution, devolution, foresight, homoplasy, irreducible complexity, Marcos Eberlin, Venus flytrap}

The Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

_{Marcos Eberlin

August 26, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Scotsman Andrew McDiarmid reads from Marcos Eberlin’s recent book Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. In this excerpt, the distinguished Brazilian scientist highlights the challenge the Venus flytrap poses for evolutionary theory. Dr. Eberlin, the former president of the International Mass Spectrometry Association, describes the problem: The Venus flytrap, like all carnivorous plants, had no use for its insect-trapping function unless it also had an insect-digesting function. And vice versa. Did they really both evolve together? And how when there would be no functional advantage along much of the evolutionary pathway to the sophisticated finished system? Finally, how did this “evolutionary miracle” also happen in four other carnivorous plant Read More ›

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
August 14, 2019

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
__edited, aquaporin, asparagine, chemistry, chicken-egg problem, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, foresight, Intelligent Design, just-so stories, Marcos Eberlin, molecular chaperones, Neo-Darwinism, phosphates, Proteins, ribose, RNA}

Marcos Eberlin on Evolution’s Water-Gate Problem

_{Marcos Eberlin

August 14, 2019

Evolution}

On this episode of ID the Future, internationally distinguished scientist Marcos Eberlin, author of the new book Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, talks about evolution’s “water gate” problem. There’s no conspiracy here, just life’s astonishing answer for admitting water into cells through “gates” while keeping lethal acidifying proteins out. There’s also a chicken-egg problem involving proteins and molecular chaperones. That and more, Eberlin argues, add up to the conclusion that life required foresight.