Tag: The Blind Watchmaker

^{Type
post

Author
Douglas Axe

Date
December 8, 2021

Tagged
> Douglas Axe, age of wonder, Alison Gopnik, Atheism, baking cookies, beta-lactamase, Casey Luskin, chance, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Darwinism, design detection, Design Intuition, dragonflies, enzymes, Evolution, functional enzyme, functional proteins, God, Intelligent Design, Joseph Holden, know-how, Lottery, Mind and Cosmos, Natural Selection, overwhelming improbabilities, Penicillin, protein evolution, protein experiment, protein folding, protein function, random mutations, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Nagel, Undeniable, William Dembski}

Axe’s Not-So-Secret Guide to Making Cookies and Dragonflies

_{Douglas Axe

December 8, 2021

Uncategorized}

This ID the Future brings in protein scientist Douglas Axe to discuss his contribution to a new book, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Axe and host Casey Luskin discuss Axe’s thinking on the design intuition, the evidence that it’s triggered almost universally in small children when they observe things like dragonflies or fresh-baked cookies, and why he’s convinced that this intuition is a rational one rooted in our true sense of what sorts of things require know-how for their creation. For those who retort “Science!,” Axe has some of that to offer as well. As he tells Luskin, he led an experiment at a lab in Cambridge, England, on the abilities and limits of an enzyme to evolve. The research findings Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 24, 2021

Tagged
abiogenesis, Brian Miller, building blocks of life, chemical evolution, Dave Farina, Duke University, entropy, James Tour, MIT, Natural Selection, origin of life, prebiotic chemistry, Professor Dave, Rice University, Richard Dawkins, self-organization, synthetic organic chemistry, The Blind Watchmaker}

Brian Miller Distills the YouTube Debate between Dave Farina and James Tour

_{Brian Miller

May 24, 2021

Uncategorized}

On today’s ID the Future, host Eric Anderson and physicist Brian Miller, research director for Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, discuss a recent debate between YouTube science educator Dave Farina and Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour. Tour has argued that no one—not even the most elite of origin-of-life scientists–has a clue how life could have arisen through blind natural forces on the early earth. Farina created a YouTube response on his channel arguing that Tour is wrong and that origin-of-life researchers are well on their way to solving the mystery of life’s origin. Tour then responded in his own YouTube video series. Now Miller and Anderson boil it all down and argue that Tour is right Read More ›

CAMBRIDGE, UK - JANUARY 18, 2015: Clare college inner yard view

^{Type
post

Author
John Lennox

Date
October 28, 2020

Tagged
2084, Abolition of Man, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Atheism, C. S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christopher Hitchens, John Polkinghorne, Kevin Sorbo, Larry Taunton, Lawrence Krauss, laws of nature, Materialism, Mind and Cosmos, Naturalism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheism, New Atheists, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, Robert E. D. Clark, Sam Harris, Scientism, Stephen Hawking, The Blind Watchmaker, Theism, Thomas Nagel, University of Cambridge}

John Lennox and Steve Meyer Against the Tide, Pt. 1

_{John Lennox

October 28, 2020

Uncategorized}

On this ID the Future, Stephen Meyer and Oxford University mathematician and thinker John Lennox begin a three-part conversation about Lennox’s upcoming documentary, Against the Tide: Finding God in an Age of Science. As Lennox explains, he grew up as the child of a uniquely non-sectarian Christian family in Northern Ireland, with parents who encouraged him to question broadly, read widely, and respect every person as a creature made in the image of God. He tells of his encounters with C. S. Lewis at Cambridge University, relates a humorous story in which atheist Peter Atkins gave him the title of one of his books, and describes his front-row seat as he watched the scientific atheism of the 1960s transform into Read More ›

Who Question with Copyspace, Chinese Language

^{Type
post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 27, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Barbara Forrest, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Donald Prothero, falsifiability, genetic drift, Human Nature, Jeffrey Shallit, Jerry Coyne, Larry Moran, Materialism, methodological naturalism, Motoo Kamura, Neo-Darwinism, NOMA, Non-overlapping magisteria, P. Z. Myers, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Robert Pennock, Stephen Jay Gould, The Blind Watchmaker, University of Kentucky}

David Berlinski Pays Tribute to Phillip Johnson

_{Andrew McDiarmid

November 27, 2019

Uncategorized}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads from David Berlinski’s new book Human Nature. The excerpt is a tribute to Phillip Johnson and his 1991 book Darwin on Trial. Berlinski calls the work a “Majestic Ascent.” Johnson, he writes, not only brought evolution into question logically and scientifically; he brought the case where it belongs, before “the considered reflection of the human race.” Berlinski himself reflects on various empty attempts to build a scientific theory on prior commitments to materialism. “Darwin’s theories,” he says, “are correspondingly less important for what they explain, which is very little, and more important for what they deny, which is roughly the plain evidence of our senses.”