Tag: Intelligent Design | Page 23

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Stephen C. Meyer

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March 4, 2020

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__edited, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Emily Johnson, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Materialism, Michael Ruse, Neo-Darwinism, Phillip E. Johnson, Phillip Johnson, William Provine}

Honoring Phillip Johnson Pt. 6: Emily Johnson, Stephen Meyer

_{Stephen C. Meyer

March 4, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, we present two final, moving talks in a series honoring the late Phillip E. Johnson, author of the hit book Darwin on Trial and affectionately known as the godfather of the intelligent design movement. These two eulogies were given at his memorial service in November. The first speaker is Emily Johnson, Phillip Johnson’s daughter. The second is Stephen Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.

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John Reynolds

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February 26, 2020

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__edited, Baylor University, Berkeley, Biola University, Constantine School, Intelligent Design, Materialism, Phillip E. Johnson, Phillip Johnson, Theism, theistic realism, Torrey Honors Program, Yale University}

Honoring Phillip Johnson Pt. 5: John Mark Reynolds

_{John Reynolds

February 26, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future we hear John Mark Reynolds’ concluding comments at the November 2019 symposium in honor of the late Phillip E. Johnson. Reynolds is a Fellow with the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, president of the Constantine School in Houston, and a long-time friend of Phillip Johnson. Reynolds says he saw in Johnson a mind constant and relentless in the pursuit of truth, a man who refused to distort the truth to fit it into a materialist paradigm, and who passed along that mindset to as many as he could, for he knew there is no success without successors.

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Paul Nelson

Date
February 17, 2020

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__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

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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 the origin of biological form.

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Michael Behe

Date
February 10, 2020

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__edited, bacterial flagellum, blood-clotting cascade, burden of proof, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Evolution, gradualism, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Lehigh University, Phillip Johnson, Richard Lewontin, Roger Olsen, The Edge of Evolution, vision, Walter Bradley}

Michael Behe on the Design Idea That Won’t Go Away (and Shouldn’t)

_{Michael Behe

February 10, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Jonathan Witt caught up with Darwin’s Black Box author and biochemist Michael Behe at the 2020 Dallas Science and Faith conference, where the two discuss an idea that many wish would just go away, but hasn’t. Charles Darwin himself told us how his evolutionary theory could be overturned: identify a biological system that couldn’t possibly have evolved by “numerous success successive slight modifications.” It’s to Darwin’s credit that he put his theory in “empirical harm’s way,” to quote philosopher Del Ratzsch, but as Witt and Behe note, Darwin also cleverly placed the burden of proof on his opponents, an arguably dubious maneuver given that his proposed evolutionary mechanism has never once been observed to generate a fundamentally new biological form or molecular machine. Still, Behe has taken up the challenge. Listen in as he discusses how his “irreducible complexity” arguments against Darwinism have fared, and for a teaser about an upcoming anthology where Behe directly engages his critics.

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Douglas Axe

Date
February 3, 2020

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__edited, amino acids, Biola University, CalTech, Cambridge University, Dallas Science and Faith Conference, E. coli, enzymes, European Bioinformatics Institute. Probability sampling. Michael Behe, Evolution, flue, HIV, influenza, Intelligent Design, Journal of Molecular Biology, macroevolution, malaria, Microevolution, Molecular Machines, Proteins, random mutations, scaffolds}

Protein Scientist Douglas Axe at the Dallas Area Science and Faith Conference

_{Douglas Axe

February 3, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, guest host Jonathan Witt sits down with molecular biologist Douglas Axe at the recent Dallas Science and Faith Conference. Axe, author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, had his research on protein folds published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, work showing that random mutations are not up to the task of building fundamentally new protein folds from old, a finding that poses a major challenge to modern evolutionary theory. After all, if evolution can’t build something as basic as a new protein fold, how could it build whole new organs and body plans in the history of life? But Witt presents Axe with an objection: Axe couldn’t possibly have tested more than the tiniest fraction of a fraction of all the possible amino acid combinations for the protein he studied, so how can we trust his findings? Tune in to hear Axe’s explanation, and to learn about other lines of evidence confirming his research.

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Michael Behe

Date
January 27, 2020

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bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, degradative evolution, Evolution, Galápagos finches, Galen, history of intelligent design, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, modern evolutionary theory, molecular machinery, Neo-Darwinism, protoplasm, William Paley}

Honoring Phillip Johnson, Pt. 3: Michael Behe

_{Michael Behe

January 27, 2020

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On this ID the Future we continue a series of messages from a November 2019 symposium in Berkeley, California, presented in honor of the late Phillip Johnson, who played a crucial role in the flowering of the intelligent design movement. Read More ›

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Geoffrey Simmons

Date
January 8, 2020

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__edited, artificial intelligence (AI), circulatory system, consciousness, ears, empathy, eyes, Free Will, hearing, heart, humanoid robots, humor, Intelligent Design, nervous system, optical nerve, Ray Kurzweil, robots, singularity, soul, space travel, spark of life, suspended animation, vision, war}

Dr. Geoffrey Simmons On Human Design — and Re-Creating It in Robots

_{Geoffrey Simmons

January 8, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, author and physician Geoffrey Simmons joins host Andrew McDiarmid in a wide-ranging discussion of his new book, Are We Here to Re-Create Ourselves: The Convergence of Designs. From the foresight needed in the design of eyes, to our stereoscopic and redundant hearing systems, to the mysteries of design in the nervous and circulatory systems, signs of engineered design are everywhere in the human body.

Behe Barnstorms Brazil

_{Michael Behe

November 11, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Darwin Devolves author and Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe sits down with host Rob Crowther to discuss Behe’s recent speaking trip to Brazil, and on where he sees the Darwinism/design debate heading in the next few years. Read More ›

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Stephen C. Meyer

Date
November 8, 2019

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__edited, Berkeley, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neo-Darwinism, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins}

Stephen Meyer on Phillip Johnson’s Courage

_{Stephen C. Meyer

November 8, 2019

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On this episode of ID The Future, Stephen Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, honors Phillip Johnson, the U.C. Berkeley law professor who helped ignite the modern intelligent design movement with the publication of his highly successful book Darwin on Trial.

Ann Gauger on Emerging Clues to Life’s Design

_{Ann Gauger

October 25, 2019

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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.”