Tag: irreducible complexity

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 4, 2022

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Adam Shapiro, Brian Josephson, Casey Luskin, complex specified information, DNA, genetic information, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Justin Brierley, Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, Mind and Cosmos, Molecular Machines, Natural Theology, New Atheists, Richard Dawkins, Science and faith, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, specified information, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theistic evolution, Thomas Nagel, Unbelievable?, William Paley}

Casey Luskin and Adam Shapiro Debate Intelligent Design, Pt. 1

_{Casey Luskin

April 4, 2022}

On today’s ID the Future, design theorist Casey Luskin, an editor of The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, and science historian Adam Shapiro, co-author of Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, debate the meaning and prospects of intelligent design. Here in this first half of their conversation with host Justin Brierley of the Unbelievable? podcast, the focus is on how the term intelligent design is used, or misused, and its relationship to theological issues. The interview is used by permission of Justin Brierley.

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
March 30, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
agnosticism, Atheism, Darwinism, David Berlinski, emotivism, Evolution, God, human exceptionalism, human rights, Humanize podcast, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jewish Holocaust, Marcel Schützenberger, Materialism, metaphysics, methodological materialism, Michael Behe, Natural Selection, nature rights movement, Nazis, Nazism, nihilism, Notre Dame, Peter Abelard, philosophy of science, random mutations, self-referential fallacies, The SS State, Theism, Wesley J. Smith}

David Berlinski on Nazism, Darwinism, Emotivism, and Nature Rights

_{David Berlinski

March 30, 2022

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, Human Nature author David Berlinski continues his conversation with host Wesley J. Smith. Here Berlinski reflects on the Jewish Holocaust, the destructive nihilism of the Nazis and the SS, and the shortcomings of Neo-Darwinism as an explanation for the diversity of life. Berlinski and Smith also discuss the increasingly widespread attacks on human exceptionalism, the growth of emotivism and why it’s a problem, and the bizarre nature rights movement. This is the second and concluding part of a conversation borrowed, with permission, from Wesley J. Smith’s Humanize podcast.

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 16, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
bacteriophage, Casey Luskin, cells, Charles Darwin, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, cryo-electron spectroscopy, Darwinism, DNA, double helix, Escherichia virus T4, Evolution, genetic code, genetic information, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, irreducibly complex, Lyle Jensen, Michael Behe, Molecular Machines, mousetrap, myoglobin, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinian synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Proteins, protoplasm, purposeful arrangement of parts, Ronald Fisher, viruses, x-ray crystallography}

Behe: Bacteriophage—The New Poster Child for Darwin’s Doom

_{Michael Behe

March 16, 2022

Evolution}

On today’s ID the Future, Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe argues that Darwinism was built on a foundation of ignorance. Through no fault of Darwin’s, neither he nor anyone else in his day had a clue about the nature of cellular life and biological information, says Behe. Even the biologists of the Neo-Darwinian synthesis in the first half of the twentieth century were fairly clueless about the foundation of life, Behe says. When researchers did finally begin to unravel the sophisticated foundations of life, earlier notions of how evolutionary processes might have invented the great diversity of life forms on earth were exposed as causally inadequate. Behe says that in fact all the attempts to rescue the idea of mindless Read More ›

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
March 9, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
actuators, artificial muscle, biceps, bio-engineering, biological systems, biomimetics, Bristol University, Cambridge University, Darwinian Evolution, deep sea dragonfish, displacement amplification, Evolution, fish jaws, force amplification, four-bar linkage mechanism, high strain rate actuators, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, irreducibly complex, linear actuator, mantis shrimp, motor units, muscle, parrotfish, precision design, robotics, sling-jaw wrasse, Stuart Burgess, suction effect}

Jaw Dropping: Nature’s Irreducibly Complex Linkage Mechanisms

_{Stuart Burgess

March 9, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, Bristol University engineer Stuart Burgess dives deeper into the engineering marvels of such sea creatures as the parrotfish, sling-jaw wrasse, mantis shrimp, and the deep sea dragonfish, with a particular focus on the amazing linkage mechanisms found in these creatures. Burgess says these mechanisms are extraordinary examples of engineering prowess, and they are irreducibly complex, thereby posing a challenge to modern evolutionary theory. He and host Eric Anderson also discuss the engineering sophistication of muscles, with a specific look at the human bicep and how the muscle and the brain work together. Burgess is an expert on linkage mechanisms. His design work in this area helped Great Britain’s cycling team win gold in the two Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 13, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
ad hominem attacks, Casey Luskin, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Creationism, demarcation arguments, experiment, historical sciences, hypothesis, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Michael Behe, observation, peer-reviewed research, philosophy of science, prediction, purposeful arrangement of parts, testability, testing}

Casey Luskin on Successfully Defending Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin

December 13, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, Casey Luskin further discusses his recent essay, “What Is Intelligent Design and How Should We Defend It,” in the new book The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. In his conversation with host Eric Anderson, Luskin rebuts the claims that intelligent design isn’t science (it is), doesn’t produce peer-reviewed research (it does), and is just a negative argument against evolution. He also offers advice on handling personal attacks and objections that you’ve never encountered before. To consider supporting the work of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and its brave scientists, click here for options.

Sunset in the sea, a small sailing boat at sunset away

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 29, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
abrupt appearance, African perspective, African scientists, agnosticism, Atheism, beginning of universe, Biological Information, Casey Luskin, Creationism, David Gelernter, Dover intelligent design trial, Dover vs. Kitzmiller, fine tuning, Fossil Record, history of life, human exceptionalism, irreducible complexity, local fine tuning, Michael Shermer, Molecular Machines, Neil Thomas, New Atheism, new new atheists, nihilism, Phil Torres, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Salon.com, Sapiens, Science, Science and faith, scientific Materialism, Scientism, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, supernatural, superstition, Theism, Thomas Nagel, warfare model, Western perspective, Yuval Noah Harari}

Bidding Adieu to Steven Weinberg’s Take on Science and Faith

_{Casey Luskin

September 29, 2021

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, discusses his Evolution News article about the recently deceased Steven Weinberg. On Weinberg’s view, one of science’s social functions is to undermine religion, which he sees as superstition. Luskin takes the opposite view and points to skilled and successful scientists he got to know in Africa. He says these scientists are convinced that the supernatural is real and would find Weinberg’s secular Western rejection of the supernatural as blinkered. Luskin and host Robert Crowther also discuss a hopeful trend among some atheists toward a more civil and respectful way of engaging intelligent design, even to the point of acknowledging that design theorists are Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 28, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Aristotle, autopoiesis, bacterial flagellum, bottom-up causation, Chloroquine, co-option, Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, design detection, devolution, E. coli, epigenetics, eternal universe, Evolution, exaptation, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jim Madden, Kenneth Miller, malaria, Michael Behe, Molecular Machines, origin of life, Pat Flynn, Pax genes, Pax7 gene, purposeful arrangement of parts, Richard Lenski, self-replication, selfish gene, The Edge of Evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Top-down causation}

ID Pioneer Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 2

_{Michael Behe

July 28, 2021

Intelligent Design}

In today’s ID the Future, intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Here in Part 2 of a three-part series, Behe offers an illustration from language and Madden presses him, noting that meaning detection in language is not parts to whole. A lively exchange ensues and then Behe turns the discussion back to his primary focus, detecting design in molecular biological machines by recognizing the purposeful arrangement of parts. From there the conversation turns to everything from epigenetics, systems biology, and autopoiesis to co-option, mousetraps, tie clips, biologist Kenneth Miller, and the philosophers Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. For Behe’s newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin, go here. This discussion is presented here with permission of philosopher Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 26, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Aquinas’s fifth way, argument from ignorance, Big Bang theory, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, devolution, evolutionary theory, guided evolution, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, methodological materialism, Molecular Machines, Natural Selection, Pat Flynn, purposeful arrangement of parts, random mutation, teleology, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, unguided evolution}

Biologist Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 1

_{Michael Behe

July 26, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future features Darwin Devolves author and Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe speaking about the logic and evidence of intelligent design with two philosophers, Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. In a friendly, stimulating exchange, Flynn and Madden press Behe with objections — some philosophic, others scientific — to see how well his position stands up to scrutiny from experts who have engaged the subject. Here in Part 1 of a three-part series, Behe counters the charge that ID is an argument from ignorance, and then the three men compare the contemporary design argument to philosopher Thomas Aquinas’s fifth way. For Behe’s newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin, go here. This discussion is presented here with permission of philosopher Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 7, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
cilia, ciliopathies, cilium, Current Biology, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinian gradualism, dynein-2, flagella, Gaia Pigino, IFT, Intelligent Design, Intraflagellar Transport, irreducible complexity, irreducibly complex, kinesin-2, Michael J. Behe, microtubules, Molecular Machines, Proteins, The Edge of Evolution}

Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed

_{Michael Behe

July 7, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, author and biologist Michael Behe discusses with host Andrew McDiarmid how the once seemingly humble cilium is actually even more irreducibly complex than Behe suggested in his ID classic Darwin’s Black Box—and indeed, even more complex than his review of cilia in his update in 2007. At the time Behe described cilia as “irreducible complexity squared.” But as noted in a recent article at Evolution News, even more layers of sophistication in cilia and their Intraflagellar Transport (IFT) system have now been discovered. So, does that mean we are now looking at irreducible complexity cubed? Listen in as Behe and McDiarmid revel in the engineering sophistication of this fascinating molecular machine, and discuss why, more Read More ›

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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 ›