Tag: Junk DNA

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 8, 2022

Tagged
ankles, apostle Paul, Aristotle, atomism, backward wiring of the eye, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwinism, Demiurge, Democritus, designer substitute, ENCODE project, Epicureans, Evolution, Frances Ayala, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Junk DNA, Living with Darwin, Materialism, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, Natural Selection, optimality, Panda’s thumb, Philip Kitcher, photosynthesis, Plato, pseudogenes, purpose, Rube Goldberg machine, Stephen Jay Gould, stoics, suboptimal design, systems biology, systems modeling, teleology, transcendent mind, watch argument for design, whales, William Paley, wrists}

Brian Miller: The Surprising Relevance of Engineering in Biology

_{Brian Miller

August 8, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future brings listeners physicist and engineer Brian Miller’s recent lecture at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, “The Surprising Relevance of Engineering in Biology.” Miller rebuts several popular arguments for evolution based on claims of poor design in living systems, everything from the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye to whales, wrists, ankles, and “junk DNA.” But the main emphasis of this discussion is the exciting sea change in biology in which numerous breakthroughs are occurring by scientists who are treating living systems and subsystems as if they are optimally engineered systems. Some in this movement reject intelligent design for ideological reasons. Others embrace it. But all systems biologists treat these systems as if they are masterfully engineered Read More ›

ISS043E091794 (04/07/2015) --- Astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station are regular witness to the beauty of our planet Earth from their high vantage point. This image was taken on Apr 7, 2015 by the crew of Expedition 43.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 4, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
apologetics, Atheism, Ben Stein, Biological Information, Casey Luskin, Christianity, creationists, Darwinism, design detection, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary informatics, Expelled, genetic code, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Mt. Rushmore, purpose, Richard Dawkins, Science and faith, SETI, teleology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Theism, Theology, William Dembski}

William Dembski: Why Intelligent Design Matters

_{William A. Dembski

May 4, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future intelligent design pioneer William Dembski unpacks one of his chapters in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions about Life and the Cosmos, which Dembski co-edited with Joseph Holden and episode host Casey Luskin. The chapter, “Why Intelligent Design Matters,” focuses on ID’s cultural implications. Dembski notes that atheists use mindless evolution to provide a God-free explanation for life and the universe. Intelligent design checks that move, showing that blind material processes couldn’t have created many things in nature, much less the cosmos itself. Intelligent design is the better explanation. What about the idea that an alien created, say, the first life on Earth (intelligent design without the need for God)? Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
February 7, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
bad design, book of Job, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Cornelius Hunter, Creation, Darwin’s notebooks, Darwinism, deism, dysteleology, Epicureans, Evolution, fall of man, God, HMS Beagle, human finitude, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian theology, Junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, metaphysics, natural evil, Natural Theology, Naturalism, Nick Matzke, perfect adaptation, philosophy of science, Problem of Evil, rationalism, science stopper, the Fall, The Origin of Species, theological assumptions, theological utilitarianism, Trinity, upland goose, utilitarianism, vertebrate eye}

Darwin’s Rhetorical Foundation of Sand: Theological Utilitarianism

_{Cornelius Hunter

February 7, 2022

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, biophysicist Cornelius Hunter explores Charles Darwin’s theological arguments for his theory of evolution. By theological, Hunter doesn’t mean that Darwin was arguing for theistic evolution. He means that Darwin received what is known as theological utilitarianism from the intellectual culture of his youth, which had strong deistic tendencies and expected everything in creation to be perfectly adapted, and he made a case against it, presenting mindless evolution as a better explanation for his observations of the biological world than theological utilitarianism. But one problem with this approach, according to Hunter, is that it assumed that theological utilitarianism is THE alternative to blind evolution. In fact, there are other alternatives, including an orthodox Judeo-Christian understanding of Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 4, 2021

Categorized
Life Sciences

Tagged
backward wiring of the eye, bad design, cancel culture, consensus science, Darwinism, empirical science, evidence-based medicine, Evolution, gender dysphoria, Icons of Evolution, ideology, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Junk DNA, materialistic philosophy, methodological materialism, Nathan Lents, New England Skeptical Society, scientific journalism, scientific Materialism, scientific revolutions, scientific sensationalism, Scientism, search for truth, settled science, skepticism, truth seeking, vertebrate eye, Zombie Science}

Biologist Jonathan Wells Offers a Cure for Zombie Science

_{Jonathan Wells

October 4, 2021

Life Sciences}

On this ID the Future, Zombie Science author and biologist Jonathan Wells and host Andrew McDiarmid explore the seductive but misleading appeal to consensus science. This is when someone makes a bandwagon appeal to support a scientific hypothesis rather than offering evidence and arguments—as in, “All serious scientists agree that X is the case.” Wells says history makes hash of the consensus-science appeal because the history of scientific progress is all about a consensus view being overthrown by a newer, more accurate view that for a time was a minority view. Wells also draws a distinction between evidence-based empirical science and ideologically driven science. The example he gives for the latter: scientific materialism. Instead of a search for truth about Read More ›

Abstract graphic of Human Genome dna sequencing analysis, Sequencing DNA means determining the order of the four chemical building blocks called bases

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
August 25, 2021

Categorized
Life Sciences

Tagged
Axios, cancer, CRISPR, ENCODE project, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, epigenetics, Evolution, gene editing, hemoglobin, human genome, human genome project, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Junk DNA, non-coding DNA, non-coding RNA, oncogenes, Ray Bohlin, sickle cell disease, tumor cells, tumor suppressor genes}

Jonathan Wells Dives into “the Genome’s Uncharted Territories”

_{Jonathan Wells

August 25, 2021

Life Sciences}

On this ID the Future, Icons of Evolution author Jonathan Wells sat down with host and fellow biologist Ray Bohlin at the August 2021 Insiders’ Briefing near Seattle to discuss some fresh discoveries into the workings of the human genome detailed in a recent article in the journal Axios, “Diving into the Genome’s Uncharted Territories.” As the article details, researchers continue to discover important functions in the noncoding regions of the human genome, once regarded by evolutionists as junk DNA. Wells and Bohlin explore the exciting new findings and some of their implications for modern evolutionary theory and intelligent design.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 19, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
abiogenesis, argument from evil, chance, common descent, conservation of information, Douglas Axe, Evolution, genetic code, homochirality, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, law of small probability, Miller-Urey experiment, minimal complexity of a cell, multiple universes, multiverse, Natural Selection, origin of life, probabilistic resources, replicator, self-reproducing machines, simple life, theistic evolution, universal probability bound}

James Tour Interviews William Dembski, Pt. 2

_{William A. Dembski

May 19, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future again features Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour and intelligent design pioneer William Dembski. Here in Part 2 they discuss information theory, probability theory, the origin of life, evolution, the multiverse hypothesis, and Dembski’s contributions to the theory of intelligent design. Their conversation is borrowed, with permission, from Dr. Tour’s Science & Faith podcast.

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Author
Emily Kurlinski

Date
August 10, 2020

Categorized
Intelligent Design, Science

Tagged
__edited, Academic Freedom, CSC summer seminar, design argument, genetic revolution, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, non-coding DNA, Privileged Planet, purpose, Richard Sternberg, teleology}

ID and the CSC Summer Seminar: Transformative

_{Emily Kurlinski

August 10, 2020

Intelligent Design, Science}

On this episode of ID the Future, host Emily Kurlinski interviews “Mary,” a PhD biochemistry student who tells about her experiences at the annual Center for Science and Culture’s summer seminar program in Seattle, and how her relationships there developed into a community of friendship, professional connection, and support. What about the charge that ID is a “curiosity killer,” tempting scientists to answer every natural mystery with a shrug and a “God did it”? Mary says ID had just the opposite effect on her. Her pro-design perspective actually led her to choose a career in research, and the conviction that nature is a meaningful and purposeful affair makes her more eager and optimistic about uncovering deeper layers of order and Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 29, 2020

Categorized
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

Tagged
__edited, Change Over Time, common descent, ENCODE project, gradualism, historical science, irreducible complexity, Junk DNA, macroevolution, Microevolution, Natural Selection, non-coding DNA, Nutshell}

Robert Waltzer on Evolutionary Theory’s Room for Humility

_{Andrew McDiarmid

June 29, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science}

On this episode of ID the Future, biologist and professor Robert Waltzer talks with host Andrew McDiarmid about Waltzer’s chapter in the new Discovery Institute Press volume Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell. Waltzer’s chapter covers some key terms in the evolution/ID conversation that are often misunderstood or misused. These include the word “evolution” itself, “change over time,” “common descent,” and “natural selection.” He offers quick definitions and explains some of the confusion surrounding them. Waltzer also describes an encouraging success story of his about fostering open dialogue and exploration of the evidence for design in nature.

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 11, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Ben Stein, code of silence, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Jeffrey Epstein, Junk DNA, MIT, Richard Sternberg, scientific consensus}

Michael Egnor on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of Scientists

_{Michael Egnor

December 11, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, neurosurgery professor Michael Egnor talks about the code of silence that kept numerous scientists tied to consensus and silent on Jeffrey Epstein when they should have spoken out. Egnor says that even when it was already widely known that he was involved in child prostitution, his funding was still widely sought and received by scientific institutions, and he entertained scientists who willingly accepted his money.

Foresight Author Marcos Eberlin: Diarrhea by Design

_{Marcos Eberlin

July 8, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid talks with distinguished Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin, author of the Nobel laureate-endorsed Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, about — of all things — diarrhea, the body’s surprisingly helpful (and sophisticated) system for flushing out that bad stuff. Read More ›