Tag: Natural Selection

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 10, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

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Bible, Brian Miller, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian worldview, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, Science and faith, scientific revolution, stewardship, systems biology}

Brian Miller Q&A: Engineering in Biology, and THE Engineer

_{Brian Miller

August 10, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, host John West sits down with physicist and engineer Brian Miller to pitch him questions submitted at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Is the Bible against the pursuit of knowledge about the natural world, or for it? Are microevolutionary changes in various organisms consistently driven by random mutations and natural selection, or instead, are some made possible by pre-programming in the organism, programming that gives the organism a built-in flexibility to adapt to its environment, within limits? If living systems were deliberately engineered, how good of an engineer was the engineer behind living systems? And if so, what are the implications for the evolution/design debate? Also, what do engineering insights regarding optimization processes Read More ›

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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 ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 3, 2022

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
appearance of design, Atheism, Big Bang, Breaking the Spell, Charles Darwin, complex specified information, cosmic lottery, cosmological constant, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, design argument, Edwin Hubble, exploring the string landscape, fine tuning, fine tuning of initial conditions, Fred Hoyle, God hypothesis, immanent designer, inflationary cosmological model, inflaton field, Intelligent Design, John Polkinghorne, laws of physics and chemistry, Mount Rushmore, multiple universes, multiverse, Natural Selection, New Atheism, Occam’s Razor, origin of the universe, random variation, resonance state in carbon-12, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, string theory, The God Delusion, the nones, Theism, transcendent designer, universe-generating mechanisms}

Stephen Meyer: One God or Many Universes?

_{Stephen C. Meyer

August 3, 2022

Faith and Science}

In this ID the Future, Stephen Meyer takes a deep dive into the case for not only intelligent design, but also for a designer of the cosmos who is immaterial, eternal, transcendent, and involved. Meyer draws on evidence for design at the origin of life, in the origin of plants and animals, and from the fine tuning of the laws and constants of chemistry and the initial conditions of the universe. He connects all this to the scientific evidence that the universe is not eternal but had a beginning—the Big Bang. What about the main materialistic alternative for explaining this suite of evidence—the idea that there is a multiverse with our universe just being one of the lucky universes with Read More ›

3d rendered medically accurate illustration of a fetus at week 20

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Author
David Galloway

Date
June 6, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Charles Darwin, childbirth, Christian theism, circulatory system, Darwin, Darwinism, David Galloway, DNA error correction, DNA replication, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, fetal development, foresight, Fossil Record, genetic code, genetics, Geoffrey Simmons, goal-directed systems, God, gradualism, hard problem of consciousness, human endocrine system, human fetus, Intelligent Design, intentionality, irreducible complexity, Kinesin, lungs, Michael Behe, mind, Molecular Machines, motor proteins, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, neuroscience, placenta, selectable advantage, split brains, spontaneous generation, teleology, Theism}

David Galloway: The Fetal Circulatory System is Irreducibly Complex

_{David Galloway

June 6, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, distinguished British physician and author David Galloway explains why he’s convinced that the human fetal circulatory system is irreducibly complex and therefore beyond the reach of blind gradualistic evolution to have built. In his conversation with host and fellow physician Geoffrey Simmons, Galloway also mentions some molecular machines that he’s convinced are irreducibly complex and shout intelligent design. The occasion for the conversation is Galloway’s new book, Design Dissected.

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 16, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
alkaline thermal vents, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Darwin, design logics, devolution, DNA, E. coli, enzymes, error-correction mechanisms, Evolution, hype, James Tour, Jeremy England, Life on Fire, Materialism, Michael Russel, Molecular Machines, Natural Selection, Naturalism, Nature Communications, organizational blueprint, organizational design, origin of life, RNA, RNA first, RNA-World hypothesis, Robert Shapiro, Science Daily, self-organization, self-replicating molecules, self-replicating RNA, self-replication, Steven Novella, synthetic organic chemistry, The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, University of Tokyo}

Origin-of-Life Mystery at the University of Tokyo, Pt. 2

_{Brian Miller

May 16, 2022

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future is Part 2 of physicist Brian Miller exploring a recent report from the University of Tokyo claiming a big breakthrough in origin-of-life research. As Miller and host Eric Anderson make clear, the university’s laboratory work on RNA, detailed in a recent Nature Communications article, involved the intelligent interference of the lab scientists and, despite this intelligent interference, the devolution of RNA rather than the evolution of increasing RNA sophistication. Miller says that it’s ironic that Steven Novella, a scientist committed to puncturing science hype, seems to have fallen for the hype surrounding this laboratory work. Miller and Anderson go on to discuss critiques of origin-of-life tall-tale claims, critiques coming Robert Shapiro, James Tour, and others. Life, Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 18, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
aircraft navigation, altruism, Animal Algorithms, animal navigation, ant colonies, army ants, Artificial Intelligence, biomimetics, Boeing 737, Charles Darwin, complex systems, constrained optimization, Convergent evolution, design trade-offs, eusocial behavior, evo-dev, Evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, eye evolution, eyes, Hank Hanegraaff, insect architecture, integrated systems, methodological materialism, Natural Selection, navigation systems, orphan genes, purpose, selection pressure, social insects, spider silk, spiderwebs, suboptimal design, teleology, teleophobia, termite altruism, termite mounds, termites, top-down engineering, wasps}

Hank Hanegraaff and Animal Algorithms Author Eric Cassell, Pt. 2

_{Eric Cassell

April 18, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, radio host Hank Hanegraaff continues his conversation with Animal Algorithms author Eric Cassell. Here they look at more insects with strikingly sophisticated innate behavior, suggesting intricate algorithms encoded into their brains from birth, all of which cannot be effectively explained by reference to Darwinian evolution. Cassell and Hanegraaff touch on wasp martial arts; termite altruism and termite architectural skills, including a cooling system that has inspired a human design; interdependent social caste systems that enhance fitness; and spiderweb architecture and the extraordinary properties of spider silk, including the different kinds of silk and the spider’s ability to employ different types precisely tailored for different needs. Cassell looks at evolutionary explanations for these innate abilities that Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 13, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
aircraft navigation, altruism, Animal Algorithms, animal navigation, ant colonies, army ants, Artificial Intelligence, biomimetics, Boeing 737, Charles Darwin, complex systems, constrained optimization, Convergent evolution, design trade-offs, eusocial behavior, evo-dev, Evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, eye evolution, eyes, Hank Hanegraaff, insect architecture, integrated systems, methodological materialism, Natural Selection, navigation systems, orphan genes, purpose, selection pressure, social insects, spider silk, spiderwebs, suboptimal design, teleology, teleophobia, termite altruism, termite mounds, termites, top-down engineering}

Hank Hanegraaff Interviews Animal Algorithms Author Eric Cassell, Pt. 1

_{Eric Cassell

April 13, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future radio host Hank Hanegraaff interviews Animal Algorithms author Eric Cassell about insects and other small-brained animals with innate behaviors of astonishing sophistication — desert ants, leafcutter ants, honey bees, spiders, monarch butterflies, and many more. These appear to be hard-wired from birth with complex algorithms coded into their neural networks, and some of the algorithms seem to involve complex mathematics. Also mysterious: many of these innate abilities are do or die. So how could they have blindly evolved one small Darwinian step at a time? Also, how would genetic mutations generate the ability to make navigational calculations (as in the case of some birds) that for humans require spherical geometry? Listen in to learn more Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 6, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Adam Shapiro, adaptation, argument from ignorance, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, civil rights, Constitutional rights, Covid, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, DNA, Dover v. Kitzmiller trial, Erasmus Darwin, Establishment clause, Evolution, Free Exercise clause, genetic information, God, God of the gaps, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0, Intelligent Design, intelligent design research, Journal of Molecular Biology, nanomachines, natural laws, Natural Selection, Natural Theology, Nature Nanotechnology, Ola Hössjer, Ola Hossjer, overlapping genes, problem of pain, reading frames, religious establishment, religious freedom, the journal Nature, The Origin of Species, The Waiting Times Project, Theism, waiting time problem, William Paley}

Casey Luskin and Adam Shapiro Debate Intelligent Design, Pt. 2

_{Casey Luskin

April 6, 2022

Intelligent Design}

This ID the Future continues the debate between 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. Justin Brierley, of the popular British debate program Unbelievable?, hosts. In this second half of the conversation, Shapiro argues that intelligent design’s popularity seems to have waned. Casey Luskin counters, arguing that the number and frequency of New York Times articles on ID is a superficial metric and that the ID research program is exploding, with the number of peer-reviewed ID papers growing every year, and the number of interested graduate students, ID hubs, and conferences expanding around the world, including ID conferences attended by high-level scientists, including Read More ›

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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
Richard Weikart

Date
March 21, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, anti-Semitism, assisted suicide, biological determinism, biological evolution, Charles Darwin, Columbine shooting, Darwinian Racism, Darwinism, environmental determinism, Eric Harris, Eric Metaxas, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenics, Euthanasia, Evolutionary Ethics, fatalism, Free Will, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, genetic determinism, Gilroy Garlic Festival, Gypsies, Holocaust, human evolution, imago dei, Marxism, Materialism, Mein Kampf, Might is Right, moral relativism, Natural Selection, Nazis, Nazism, Peter Singer, postmodernism, racism, Ragnar Redbeard, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Slavs, Social Darwinism, struggle for existence, struggle for living space, white nationalism}

Eric Metaxas and Richard Weikart Spotlight Darwinian Racism

_{Richard Weikart

March 21, 2022

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future brings listeners a lively conversation between radio host and bestselling author Eric Metaxas and historian Richard Weikart about Weikart’s new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Weikart provides a quick flyover of the evidence that the outlook of Hitler, the Nazis, and contemporary white nationalists is significantly shaped by Darwinism and the arguments of early Darwinists. Metaxas and Weikart then contrast the Darwinian foundation for morality with the Judeo-Christian foundation, which holds that all humans are made in the image of God and therefore possess inherent worth, regardless of race and regardless of one’s “fitness.” This episode is reposted here, with permission, from The Eric Metaxas Show. Check out Weikart’s new Read More ›