Tag: Kenneth Miller

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Casey Luskin

Date
February 20, 2023

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Africa, ape-like fossils, beta-globin pseudogene, Bill Nye, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, convergence, Convergent evolution, David Snoke, Eugenie Scott, Fossil Record, genome comparison, genus homo, hominids, human evolution, journal Genetics, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Buggs, Science and Faith in Dialogue}

Chimp and Human Genomes: An Evolution Myth Unravels

_{Casey Luskin

February 20, 2023

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On today’s ID the Future, Casey Luskin rebuts the oft-repeated claim that the human and chimp genomes are 98-99% similar and therefore surely resulted from Darwinian common descent. Luskin cites an article in the journal Science which describes the 98-99% claim as a myth. The original figure was derived from a single protein-to-protein comparison, but once you compare the entire genomes, and use more rigorous methods, the similarity drops several percentage points, and on one account, down into the mid-80s. Additionally, the chimp genomes used in the original comparison studies borrowed the human genome for scaffolding, thus artificially boosting the degree of similarity. What about supposed junk DNA similarities between human and chimp? Why would an intelligent designer put the Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
November 28, 2022

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amino acid chains, Atheism, Biological Information, Casey Luskin, co-option, Darwinian Evolution, DNA, Dr. Jeffrey Myers, Evolution, evolutionary pathways, Free Will, genetic information, genetic reductionism, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, meaning, Michael Behe, Molecular Machines, nihilism, nucleotide bases, philosophical materialism, Proteins, purpose, Richard Dawkins, scientific paradigms, Stephen Meyer, Summit Ministries, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Theism, Thomas Kuhn, type three secretory system}

Casey Luskin Talks Intelligent Design and Cultural Renewal on the Dr. Jeff Show

_{Casey Luskin

November 28, 2022

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On this ID the Future, intelligent design scientist Casey Luskin sits down with Summit Ministries podcast host Dr. Jeff Myers to explain the heart of intelligent design theory and why it should matter to Christians and to anyone who prizes a culture committed to the view that life is meaningful and human beings more than matter in motion. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
September 21, 2022

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Alvin Plantinga, Atheism, bacterial flagellum, Barry Hall, blood clotting cascade, cilia H. Allen Orr, cilium, Evolution, Graham Oppy, Hermann J. Muller, irreducible complexity, Jack Smart, Kenneth Miller, lactose, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Naturalism, Pat Flynn, philosophical materialism, Philosophy for the People podcast, philosophy of science, Richard Dawkins, Russell Doolittle}

Behe Counters the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt 2

_{Michael Behe

September 21, 2022

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Today’s ID the Future continues A Mousetrap for Darwin author Michael Behe’s conversation with philosopher Pat Flynn, focused on some of the more substantive objections to Behe’s case for intelligent design in biology. In this segment the pair discuss the bacterial flagellum, the cilium, and the blood clotting cascade, and tackle critiques from Alvin Plantinga, Graham Oppy, Russell Doolittle, Kenneth Miller, and others. This interview is posted here by permission of Pat Flynn.

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
February 7, 2022

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

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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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Michael Behe

Date
July 28, 2021

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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

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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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Michael Behe

Date
December 21, 2020

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A Mousetrap for Darwin, blood clotting, blood clotting cascade, Darwinism, fibrinogen, gene duplication, genetic mutations, irreducibly complex systems, Keith Robison, Kenneth Miller, Natural Selection, neutral evolution, plasminogen, Russell Doolittle, TAGS: irreducible complexity, waiting time problem}

Behe: Blood Clotting Remains a Mousetrap for Darwin

_{Michael Behe

December 21, 2020

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On this ID the Future, Michael Behe continues discussing his new book, A Mousetrap for Darwin, with host Eric Anderson. Here the focus is the blood clotting cascade. Behe has argued it’s irreducibly complex, like a mousetrap, and that blind evolution couldn’t build it one small functional step at a time. Behe says a better explanation is that it was intelligently designed. His critics have responded to his argument over the years. Here Behe returns the favor. His most prominent interlocutor on the matter is the recently deceased Russell Doolittle. Behe shows that Doolittle misread the paper he relied on to refute Behe. Professor Behe also responds to Kenneth Miller and Keith Robison. According to Behe, his critics have managed Read More ›

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Michael Behe

Date
November 25, 2020

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argument from ignorance, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, irreducible complexity, James Shapiro, Kenneth Miller, molecular machinery, neutral evolution, Phillip Johnson, religious motivation, Science (Journal), sociology, Stephen C. Meyer, vitalism}

A Mousetrap for Darwin: The Interview, Pt. 1

_{Michael Behe

November 25, 2020

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On this ID the Future, Eric Anderson interviews Michael Behe about Behe’s new book, A Mousetrap for Darwin. In this episode, Behe explains that he was spurred to build this collection of essays by a review in the journal Science claiming he had never answered his critics on key points. That annoyed Behe, because he had, multiple times. A Mousetrap for Darwin compiles more than a hundred of his responses, some of them from difficult-to-access places. The book also contains fresh material from Dr. Behe, including some lively behind-the-scenes details about his interactions with colleagues and critics. In this episode, the Lehigh University biochemist answers misconceptions about irreducible complexity, responds to the claim that “molecular machines” is a misnomer, relates Read More ›

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Michael Flannery

Date
October 14, 2020

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Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropocentrism, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian theism, Darwinian theists, Darwinism, Deborah Haarsma, Edinburgh University, Edmund Grant, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Collins, freethinkers, HMS Beagle, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, Janet Brown, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mind/body, philosophical materialism, Plinian Society, Theism, theistic evolution, Theory of Evolution, Tom Wolfe, William Dembski, World of Life}

Michael Flannery on the Origin of Darwin’s Worldview

_{Michael Flannery

October 14, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, science historian and host Michael Keas talks with fellow science historian Michael Flannery about the newly updated book Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russell Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwin. Flannery tells of Darwin’s involvement in the Plinian Society, a “freethinkers” group at Edinburgh University where he studied medicine as a teenager. It was there that he first encountered radical philosophical materialism, the worldview that laid the philosophical foundation for his work in evolution. Flannery also speaks of Alfred Russel Wallace’s “intelligent evolution” and how it differs from Darwinism and from today’s theistic evolution — what Flannery prefers to call “Darwinian theism.”

Michael Behe Still from Secrets in the Cell

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Michael Behe

Date
August 5, 2020

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__edited, bacterial flagellum, Bacteriophage T4, cellular control systems, co-option, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwin Devolves, embryo, Evolution, flagella, gears, genetic regulatory networks, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Kenneth Miller, magnetotactic bacterium, MO1, random mutation, theistic evolution, wiring diagrams}

Michael Behe Answers Your Questions

_{Michael Behe

August 5, 2020

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This episode of ID the Future features Darwin Devolves author Michael Behe. The Lehigh University biologist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow sat down to answer some of the most common questions put to him about evolution and intelligent design, and here we collect his answers to three of those questions: (1) What are some new examples of irreducibly complex systems? (2) What are some objections to ID from well-known critics? And (3) Why aren’t you convinced by theistic evolution arguments?

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John G. West

Date
May 4, 2020

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__edited, afterlife, Alfred Kinsey, Atheism, Christopher Ryan, Cornell University, cultural decay, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, divine omnipotence, divine omniscience, Ethics, Evolution, faith, Finding Darwin’s God, fine-tuning, George Coyne, God, human exceptionalism, human zoos, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, marriage, Materialism, moral relativism, National Public Radio, Neo-Darwinism, Philip Skell, Privileged Species, purpose, Religion, scientific Materialism, Sex at Dawn, sexual ethics, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, soul, theistic evolutionist, Thomas Nagel}

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 2

_{John G. West

May 4, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, hear the second half of Discovery Institute’s John West’s talk given at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, on how Darwinism has corroded Western culture. In this portion he examines the morally poisoning effects of Darwinism on marriage, sexual ethics, and religion, such that virtually anything can be defended as OK, and no particular culture’s ethic is to be preferred over another. Humankind’s spiritual purpose has likewise been eroded. Yet West closes with hope: science in our generation is discovering more and more signs of intelligent design and purpose in nature, and young researchers are learning that materialism shouldn’t be the foregone conclusion of contemporary science.