Tag: teleology

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
August 29, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
aesthetics, beauty, Catholicism, chance, Christian apologetics, Creation, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, Evolution, fine tuning, From the Dust of the Earth, G.K. Chesterton, In the Beginning: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jack Smart, John Henry Newman, Joseph Ratzinger, Just So Stories, Mathew Ramage, Michael Behe, Molecular Machines, Naturalism, personalism, Pope Benedict XVI, Psalm 8, purposeful arrangement of parts, randomness, Rudyard Kipling, teleology, Theism, Theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, voluntarism, William of Ockham}

Behe and Ramage Debate, Pt. 2: Evolution, ID, and Aquinas

_{Michael Behe

August 29, 2022

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future continues the conversation between Catholic intelligent design biologist Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Both agree that nature points to a cosmic designer, but Ramage says he prefers, on aesthetic grounds, the idea that the biological realm has the capacity, gifted by God, to evolve on its own without the need for intervention by God. Behe notes that people have different aesthetic predilections, but it’s the scientist’s job not to figure out how he would have preferred things to have happened in nature, but to discover how they actually did come about. Behe also says that while the sun, moon, and stars do move according to fixed natural laws, it doesn’t follow from this that 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
Casey Luskin

Date
July 20, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
antibiotic resistance, Apologetics 315, appearance of design, bacterial flagellum, BioLogos, Brian Auten, Brian Josephson, cancer research, Casey Luskin, Chad Gross, Charles Townes, chemotaxis, cosmology, cures for cancer, Darwinian Evolution, evolutionary creationism, fine tuning, foresight, Francis Collins, Galactic Habitable Zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0, Intelligent Design, intelligent design research, Marcos Eberlin, nano-drills, nanobots, peer-reviewed intelligent design papers, population genetics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Romans 1, State Museum of Natural History, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm Syndrome, Stuttgart Germany, systems biology, teleology, theistic evolution, unguided evolution, waiting times project, Wikipedia}

Casey Luskin on Why He Favors ID over Theistic Evolution

_{Casey Luskin

July 20, 2022

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future continues intelligent design theorist Casey Luskin’s conversation with Apologetics 315 podcast hosts Brian Auten and Chad Gross. Here in Part 2, Luskin give a peek behind the scenes of ID 3.0, the current research program inspired by the intelligent design framework. Luskin is then asked to explain his reservations about theistic evolution, and Luskin points out the evidential, rhetorical, and logical problems he sees with the brand of theistic evolution advocated by Francis Collins and Biologos. What about the future of the intelligent design movement? Luskin says he’s optimistic, both because of the exciting research and publication breakthroughs of late, and because of the many converts he’s seeing to the ID framework. According to Luskin, many of these 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.

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
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
Jay Richards

Date
March 14, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
anti-design, apologetics, Atheism, biological complexity argument, Casey Luskin, Christian apologetics, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Cosmological Argument, Darwinian Evolution, demarcation argument, design argument, design argument from human reason, Evolution, fine tuning of physics, history of science, Human Reason, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jay W. Richards, Materialism, natural science, origin of life argument, origin of the universe Kalam cosmological argument, philosophical materialism, philosophy of science, Privileged Planet argument, public evidence scientism, purpose, teleology, theistic Darwinism, theistic evolution, Thomas Nagel}

Jay Richards on the Art of Answering Theistic Evolutionists

_{Jay Richards

March 14, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards offers advices on engaging with evolutionists over the issues of origins, evolution, and intelligent design. In his conversation with host Casey Luskin, he says that if someone tells you he’s a theistic evolutionist, first find out what he means by theism and evolution. The latter term, in particular, can have widely varying meanings, and the average lay persons who see themselves as theistic evolutionists likely see God as actively and creatively working in the history of life to steer evolutionary outcomes, including the origin of humanity. What they may not realize is that such a view takes them well outside the bounds of what academic theistic evolutionists generally mean by the term Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 22, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
adaptation, Animal Algorithms, animal behavior, bird navigation, Casey Luskin, chemotaxis, common ancestry, complex programmed behaviors, convergence, Convergent evolution, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, Eric Cassell, eusociality, Evolution, genetic engineering, geomagnetic reversal, gradualistic adaptation, ID 3.0, innate behavior, insect social behavior, instinct, Intelligent Design, intelligent design research, Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Natural Selection, neural networks, pheromone trails, pheromones, purpose, social colonies, social insect genomes, social insects, solitary behavior, spherical navigation, spiders, teleology, teleophobia}

Animal Algorithms Webinar Pt. 2: Author Q&A

_{Eric Cassell

December 22, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future is Part 2 of a recent live webinar with Eric Cassell fielding questions about his new book, Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the Mysterious Origin of Ingenious Instincts. He and host Casey Luskin explore the engineering wonders of web-spinning spiders and their extraordinary silk, and the challenge of transforming solitary insects into social insects (with their complex and interdependent caste systems) via a blind step-by-step evolutionary process, and the many thousands of genetic changes required. What does Cassell consider the best explanation? He invokes design theorist William Dembski’s work with No Free Lunch theorems to argue that blind processes are a no-go for explaining their origin. From there Luskin opens the webinar up to questions from the 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 ›