Tag: Pat Flynn

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
September 21, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

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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

Intelligent Design}

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.

Illustration of Helicobacter pylori bacteria on an abstract blue background. Medical concept.

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
September 19, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Alvin Plantinga, design hypothesis, Eliott Sober, inductive argument, inductive reasoning, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Michael Behe, Pat Flynn, Paul Draper, purposeful arrangement of parts, Richard Swinburne, Thomas Reid}

Behe Answers the Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity and ID, Pt. 1

_{Michael Behe

September 19, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe addresses what Philosophy for the People host Pat Flynn considers some of the best objections to Behe’s central intelligent design argument. As far back as the 1996 book Darwin’s Black Box, Behe has argued that certain features in biology are irreducibly complex. That is, they require numerous essential parts, each carefully fitted to its task and integrated with the other parts, in order for the molecular machine or system to function at all. Two examples are the bacterial flagellum motor and the blood clotting cascade. Such systems are, in Behe’s words, irreducibly complex and could not have arisen through any blind and gradual evolution process. The better explanation for their Read More ›

dog and cat play together. cat and dog lying outside in the yard. kitten sucks dog breast milk. dog and cat best friends. love between animals.

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
August 31, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
argument from knowledge, cichlid fish, common descent, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwin’s finches, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, death before the Fall, devolution, Evolution, evolutionary theory, From the Crust of the Earth, genetic code, genetic information, genus, God, Hawaiian drosophila, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Lake Victoria, macroevolution, Matthew Ramage, Michael Behe, Microevolution, Molecular Machines, Natural Selection, Naturalism, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, Pope Benedict, proofs of God, purposeful arrangement of parts, random variation, Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Behe and Ramage: Evolution’s Limits and the Fingerprints of Design

_{Michael Behe

August 31, 2022

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future wraps up a debate over evolution and intelligent design between Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe and Benedictine College theologian Michael Ramage. Both Behe and Ramage are Catholic, and they carry on their conversation in the context of Catholic thinking about nature and creation, in particular the work of Thomas Aquinas and contemporary Thomist philosophers. Ramage seeks to integrate his Thomistic/personalist framework with modern evolutionary theory’s commitment to macroevolution and common descent. Behe doesn’t discount the possibility of common descent but lays out a case that any evolution beyond the level of genus (for instance, the separate families containing cats and dogs) cannot be achieved through mindless Darwinian mechanisms and, instead, would require the contributions of a Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 30, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
aesthetic judgment, bad design, common descent, Darwinian Mechanism, Darwinism, devolution, Evolution, Immanuel Kant, Intelligent Design, Jim Madden, Michael Behe, Natural Selection, optimal design, Pat Flynn, purpose, purposeful arrangement of parts, random mutations, random variation, science stopper, the problem of evil, Thomism, Thomists, unguided evolution, vertebrate eye}

Darwin Devolves Author Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 3

_{Michael Behe

July 30, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future, ID biologist Michael Behe continues fielding tough questions from philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Here in Part 3 of 3, Behe responds to the claim that some designs in biology are bad designs and to criticisms leveled at ID from some Thomists. Also in the mix, the issue of academic pressure to distance oneself from ID, even before those involved understand what the theory of intelligent design actually is. Madden also asks Behe what reforms he’d pursue if he suddenly found himself in charge of the National Academy of Sciences. Tune in to hear Behe’s response, and much more. This three-part series is borrowed, with permission, from Flynn’s podcast, which can be found on his 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 ›