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Michael Behe

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October 31, 2022

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blood clotting, blood clotting cascade, blood clotting system, cellular complexity, Darwinism, Evolution, evolutionary gradualism, hemophilia, Intelligent Design, just-so stories, Lehigh University, metagenomics, Michael Behe, Michael Medved, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, protein structures, random mutation, Rudyard Kipling, Russel Doolittle, Secrets of the Cell, stroke}

Michael Behe and Michael Medved Explore Secrets of the Cell

_{Michael Behe

October 31, 2022

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On today’s ID the Future, Michael Medved interviews biologist Michael Behe about Behe’s visually stunning YouTube series, Secrets of the Cell. Behe summarizes one of the key messages of the video series, namely that everything from the life-essential blood clotting system to a myriad of crucial protein structures in our bodies increasingly appear to be far beyond the reach of blind evolutionary mechanisms to build. Instead they appear to be the work of planning and purpose, which is the purview of mind. Meanwhile, even many mainstream evolutionists are growing skeptical of neo-Darwinism, Behe says, as biologists continue to uncover more and more layers of cellular sophistication. The emerging field of metagenomics, he says, is a case in point. Medved also mentions a recent article in World magazine where Behe also lays out a case for intelligent design The piece is here.

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Casey Luskin

Date
October 26, 2022

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aesthetic argument for design, atmospheric fine tuning for life, carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, earth, Earth’s atmosphere, giant-impact hypothesis, habitability requirements, habitable planets, Intelligent Design, luck, Lucky Planet, magnetic field, nitrogen, oxygen, planet Earth, planetary fine tuning, plate tectonics, Privileged Planet, Theia hypothesis, Theism, thin section rocks, Water, water cycle}

More from Casey Luskin on Our Intelligently Designed Planet—Plus Q&A

_{Casey Luskin

October 26, 2022

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Today’s ID the Future continues geologist Casey Luskin’s presentation about how Earth is fine tuned in numerous ways for life, a talk he gave at the 2022 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Here in the second half, he highlights the many ways Earth’s precise mix of atmospheric gases is strikingly fit for life. On top of that (or rather, beneath that), Earth’s active geology and water-rich surface—unique in our solar system—are masterful at helping maintain our life-friendly atmosphere over long ages. Luskin argues that these and other finely tuned characteristics of planet Earth strongly suggest intelligent design. He then offers an additional design argument, this one aesthetic in nature, and then takes questions from the audience. Part 1 of his talk is here.

Panoramic view of the Earth, sun, star and galaxy. Sunrise over planet Earth, view from space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

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Casey Luskin

Date
October 24, 2022

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Casey Luskin, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, crustal recycling, earth, Earth’s core, Earth’s crust, Earth’s magnetic field, Earth’s mantle, earthlike planets, Geology, Guillermo Gonzalez, habitable planets, How to Build a Habitable Planet, Intelligent Design, Lucky Planet Carl Sagan, Mars, nebular hypothesis, paleomagnetism, planetary science, plate tectonics, rare earth, Science and faith, solar wind, terraforming, terrestrial planets, The Privileged Planet, Venus}

Casey Luskin on the Intelligent Design of Earth for Life

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October 24, 2022

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On today’s ID the Future geologist Casey Luskin explains how Earth contains many intricate geological processes required for life. He argues that, taken together, this points to intelligent design rather than dumb luck. This episode is the first half of a talk Dr. Luskin presented at the 2022 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Stay tuned for Pt. 2 and a Q&A with his original audience.

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Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 17, 2022

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Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, cosmic beginning, earliest galaxies, Edwin Hubble, Eric Lerner, expanding universe, fine tuning, galaxy formation, God, God hypothesis, infrared telescope, Intelligent Design, James Webb space telescope, James Webb telescope, Michael Medved, redshift, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen C. Meyer, The Daily Wire, Theism}

Stephen Meyer: James Webb Telescope Supports the Big Bang

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October 17, 2022

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On this ID The Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer again speaks with radio host Michael Medved about the extraordinarily powerful new James Webb space telescope. One researcher, Eric Lerner, has claimed that what the Webb telescope is seeing many billions of light years away (and therefore, many billions of years in the past) undercuts the Big Bang theory. But according to Meyer, the new photographs coming back from Webb actually further confirm the reality that our universe had a beginning (“the Big Bang”) and that it has been expanding ever since. What these Webb images are forcing a rethink on, Meyer says, is the conventional wisdom among cosmologists on galaxy formation in the early universe. Meyer insists the evidence for a cosmic beginning is stronger than ever, as is the God hypothesis that it supports. Image from NASA.

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Stuart Burgess

Date
October 12, 2022

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Achilles tendon, ankle joint, bad design, biaxal double double joint, bio-engineering, biomechanics, biomimetics, blind evolution, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, design complexity, Discovery Institute, Evolution, evolutionary philosophy, fine tuning, four-bar linkage system, fused ankle, human ankle, human wrist, Intelligent Design, internal ankle joints, Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, mechanical engineering, Nathan Lents, Stuart Burgess, thumb, trial and error, triple-arch structure, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, wrist joint}

Human Skeletal Joints—Engineering Masterpieces, Pt. 2

_{Stuart Burgess

October 12, 2022

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Today’s ID the Future completes a talk by award-winning British engineer Stuart Burgess, who explains how the human ankle and wrist joints offer powerful evidence of engineering genius. Burgess is answering evolutionist Nathan Lents, who has argued that human joints are badly designed and, therefore, evidence against intelligent design and for Darwinian evolution’s blind trial-and-error process. According to Burgess, Lents ignores—and seems to be ignorant of—the many ingeniously engineered features of our joints, leading Lents to make easily refuted claims. For example, Lents says an ankle with fused bones would be a superior design to a healthy human ankle. Not if the person hopes to play squash or tackle any number of other activities that require the suppleness and responsiveness of the human ankle, Burgess notes. Burgess’s lecture was taped at the 2022 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith in the greater Philadelphia area. The conference was jointly sponsored by Westminster Theological Seminary and Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.

Cocked empty mousetrap on dark background.

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Michael Behe

Date
September 26, 2022

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A Mousetrap for Darwin, beginning of universe, Big Bang theory, co-option, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, eternal universe, Evolution, exaptation, Graham Oppy, inductive reasoning, Intelligent Design, Kenneth R. Miller, methodological materialism, methodological naturalism, Michael J. Behe, Molecular Machines, mousetraps, natural law, Naturalism, philosophy of science, purposeful arrangement of parts, The Edge of Evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Who Designed the Designer}

Behe Counters the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt 3

_{Michael Behe

September 26, 2022

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On today’s ID the Future biologist Michael Behe and Philosophy for the People host Pat Flynn conclude their conversation (posted by permission here) about some of the best objections to Behe’s central case for intelligent design. One objection Behe and Flynn tackle in this episode: the idea of evolution overcoming the irreducible-complexity hurdle through co-option. That is, maybe the precursors to what would become one of today’s molecular machines, such as the bacterial flagellum motor, co-opted simpler machines being used for other purposes, allowing evolution to build a bacterial flagellum motor one small step at a time over thousands or millions of generations, even though the completed bacterial flagellum ceases to function at all when just one of its many key parts is removed. Behe has illustrated the idea of irreducible complexity with a mechanical mousetrap. Take away just one of its several key parts and it ceases to function even a little bit as a mousetrap. Evolutionist Kenneth Miller counters by noting that parts of the mousetrap could have served other purposes, such as a paper weight or a tie clip. Listen in to hear Behe’s explanation as to why such imaginative reasoning is no help to the evolution of irreducibly complex biological wonders like the bacterial flagellum. At the end of the conversation, Flynn points listeners to a web page where he has gathered his several conversations with Behe over the years, including two that involved debates with pro-evolution guests. That page is here. Flynn also calls attention to Behe’s four books, including his latest one, where he answers many objections posed by his critics, with many of the critiques appearing in high-level science journals. The book is A Mousetrap for Darwin. You can get it here and here in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle/eBook.

Illustration of Helicobacter pylori bacteria on an abstract blue background. Medical concept.

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Michael Behe

Date
September 19, 2022

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Alvin Plantinga, design hypothesis, Eliott Sober, inductive argument, inductive reasoning, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Michael Behe, Pat Flynn, Paul Draper, purposeful arrangement of parts, Richard Swinburne, Thomas Reid}

Behe Answers the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt. 1

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September 19, 2022

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On today’s ID the Future Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe addresses what Philosophy for the People host Pat Flynn considers some of the best objections to Behe’s central intelligent design argument. As far back as the 1996 book Darwin’s Black Box, Behe has argued that certain features in biology are irreducibly complex. That is, they require numerous essential parts, each carefully fitted to its task and integrated with the other parts, in order for the molecular machine or system to function at all. Two examples are the bacterial flagellum motor and the blood clotting cascade. Such systems are, in Behe’s words, irreducibly complex and could not have arisen through any blind and gradual evolution process. The better explanation for their origin: intelligent design. Since Darwin’s Black Box became a bestseller a generation ago, Behe has attracted opponents in places high and low. Following the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Flynn says that some of the attacks on Behe have been hysterical, but some have been more thoughtful. In this series Flynn focuses the discussion on what he regards as some of the more substantive and interesting objections, beginning with one from a noted philosopher who is partly sympathetic to Behe’s work, Plantinga himself. Behe gamely responds. This episode is used by permission of Pat Flynn. To see Behe’s responses to common and key objections collected in a single book book, get your copy of his newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics.

dog and cat play together. cat and dog lying outside in the yard. kitten sucks dog breast milk. dog and cat best friends. love between animals.

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Michael Behe

Date
August 31, 2022

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argument from knowledge, cichlid fish, common descent, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwin’s finches, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, death before the Fall, devolution, Evolution, evolutionary theory, From the Crust of the Earth, genetic code, genetic information, genus, God, Hawaiian drosophila, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Lake Victoria, macroevolution, Matthew Ramage, Michael Behe, Microevolution, Molecular Machines, Natural Selection, Naturalism, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, Pope Benedict, proofs of God, purposeful arrangement of parts, random variation, Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Behe and Ramage: Evolution’s Limits and the Fingerprints of Design

_{Michael Behe

August 31, 2022

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Today’s ID the Future wraps up a debate over evolution and intelligent design between Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe and Benedictine College theologian Michael Ramage. Both Behe and Ramage are Catholic, and they carry on their conversation in the context of Catholic thinking about nature and creation, in particular the work of Thomas Aquinas and contemporary Thomist philosophers. Ramage seeks to integrate his Thomistic/personalist framework with modern evolutionary theory’s commitment to macroevolution and common descent. Behe doesn’t discount the possibility of common descent but lays out a case that any evolution beyond the level of genus (for instance, the separate families containing cats and dogs) cannot be achieved through mindless Darwinian mechanisms and, instead, would require the contributions of a designing intelligence. Behe then summarizes both the negative evidence against the Darwinian mechanism of change and the positive evidence in nature for intelligent design. This debate was hosted by Pat Flynn on his Philosophy for the People podcast, and is reposted here by his permission.

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Michael Behe

Date
August 29, 2022

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aesthetics, beauty, Catholicism, chance, Christian apologetics, Creation, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, Evolution, fine tuning, From the Dust of the Earth, G.K. Chesterton, In the Beginning: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jack Smart, John Henry Newman, Joseph Ratzinger, Just So Stories, Mathew Ramage, Michael Behe, Molecular Machines, Naturalism, personalism, Pope Benedict XVI, Psalm 8, purposeful arrangement of parts, randomness, Rudyard Kipling, teleology, Theism, Theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, voluntarism, William of Ockham}

Behe and Ramage Debate, Pt. 2: Evolution, ID, and Aquinas

_{Michael Behe

August 29, 2022

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Today’s ID the Future continues the conversation between Catholic intelligent design biologist Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Both agree that nature points to a cosmic designer, but Ramage says he prefers, on aesthetic grounds, the idea that the biological realm has the capacity, gifted by God, to evolve on its own without the need for intervention by God. Behe notes that people have different aesthetic predilections, but it’s the scientist’s job not to figure out how he would have preferred things to have happened in nature, but to discover how they actually did come about. Behe also says that while the sun, moon, and stars do move according to fixed natural laws, it doesn’t follow from this that the many complex forms we find in biology arose purely through natural laws. The question of how they arose requires scientific investigation. Philosophy for the People Podcast host Pat Flynn leads the discussion, which is reposted here by his permission.

Tuskless female elephant with trunk in mouth

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Michael Behe

Date
August 22, 2022

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complex specified information, Design, devolution, elephants, Evolution, eye, Intelligent Design, lactase persistence, lactose intolerance, malaria, malarial proteins, Michael Behe, Microevolution, milk consumption, Nature Microbiology, pfhrp2, pfhrp3, Plasmodium falciparum, purpose, specified complexity, tuskless elephants, tusks}

Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design

_{Michael Behe

August 22, 2022

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Today’s ID the Future features three recent Evolution News essays by Lehigh University biology professor and Darwin Devolves author Michael Behe, as read by host Andrew McDiarmid. In the first, nothing shows the feebleness of Darwinism quite so much as breathless stories about new results that turn out to be much ado about nothing. In this case, it’s some recent speculation about the rise of “lactase persistence” in many human adults. Then it’s onto malaria, much beloved of evolutionists, not for its lethality but as a demonstration of evolution in action. But Behe dissects the latest news story on the topic to show that the touted malaria evolution is, once again, malaria gnawing off the proverbial leg to achieve a niche advantage—that is, mere devolution. It’s akin, Behe says, to the rise of tuskless elephants in Africa, where having the devolutionary mutation that leaves an elephant tuskless renders the creature of no interest to elephant-slaying ivory poachers, thereby improving its chances of survival. In the third essay Behe makes a case for his favorite way of concisely describing what we detect when we detect intelligent design in biology. For a great collection of Dr. Behe’s essays, get a copy of his newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael Behe Answers His Critics.