My 2015 book “In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design” includes a couple of chapters dealing with the “compensation” argument (anything can happen in an open system without violating the second law of thermodynamics), a chapter on the big bang, which includes the differential equation modeling the expansion of the universe that shows Read More…
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More on W.E.Loennig’s 1971 MS Thesis
At this Evolution News post I discussed the following section from W.E.Loennig’s 1971 MS Thesis. (He would go on to complete a PhD in genetics at the University of Bonn and work for 25 years at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research as a geneticist.) Although every analogy breaks down when extended beyond Read More…
The Debate in a Nutshell
The whole design debate could not be simpler, and neither side’s viewpoint really requires much scientific expertise to understand: On the one hand, most scientists say, nothing can possibly be beyond the reach of our science, so if we can’t explain where the designer came from, there CAN’T be any design in Nature. (See last Read More…
New W.E.Loennig Interview
Here is an interview Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig did recently with Marco Respinti of the Centro Italiano Intelligent Design organization (https://www.ciid.science), in English with Italian subtitles. A couple of quotes from the interview: after describing his PhD thesis work in the first 10 minutes he summarizes “The outcome was in full agreement with one of the more Read More…
A Summary of the Evidence for Intelligent Design—study guide
At the suggestion of a pastor friend, I have developed a study guide to go along with the video “A Summary of the Evidence for Intelligent Design,” which was highlighted in an article by Brian Miller at Evolution News. The study guide is here. Although there is only one section (4b) that relates ID to Read More…
W.E.Loennig: Are Birds Living Dinosaurs?
W.E.Loennig’s latest manuscript, “Are Birds Living Dinosaurs?” is, like all his earlier writings, characterized by great attention to scientific detail and willingness to engage with scientific critics (one in particular, in this case). I recommend not only this work, but many of his earlier works, which can be browsed here. I also highly recommend the Read More…
Some Problems Can Be Proved Unsolvable
Here are two mathematical problems for you to work on in your spare time, and one problem from biology: Find positive integers x,y, z and n>2, such that xn+yn=zn. Remove two diagonally opposite corner squares from a chess board, and cover the remaining 62 squares with 31 dominoes, each of which covers two adjacent squares. Read More…
“Why Evolution is Different” Video Now in 4 Languages
Science has been so successful explaining other phenomena in terms of purely unintelligent natural forces, why should evolution be so different? That is the primary argument against intelligent design, and it is the reason that Darwinism, an extremely implausible theory which becomes even more implausible with every new biological and biochemical discovery—but the best theory Read More…
It’s Really not Rocket Science
In the 2010 book interview for the first edition of my Discovery Institute Press book David Klinghoffer asked me, what do you think will be the turning point in the ID-Darwinism debate? I answered (approximately) “the turning point will be when scientists believe they will be considered intellectuals for doubting Darwin rather than for promoting Read More…
Video: A Summary of the Evidence for Intelligent Design
Based on this Oct 28 post at Evolution News.
W.E.Loennig on “Plant Galls, Evolution and Intelligent Design”
Posted at Evolution News Friday: In The Origin of Species (1859, 201), Charles Darwin suggested the following test, among others, for his theory: If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory for such could not Read More…
The “Hard” Problem of Consciousness
Above is a picture of three children in 1954. One of them is me, the other two are not. I saw the world from inside one of these children. Darwinists believe they can explain how these children evolved, but how did I end up inside one of them? This is a question that rarely seems Read More…
An Overview of Design Evidence
The following is an overview of the evidence for design which I wrote recently for a political journal whose readers have mostly had little exposure to ID arguments. It was rejected. It is a pretty basic summary, nothing here that UD readers have not seen many times, but maybe you may find it useful as Read More…
Why Evolution is Different
My final contribution to the ID debate:
“When Scientists Ignore Science…” by Mark Champneys
Embedded below is a nice new video “When Scientists Ignore Science: The Second Law of Thermodynamics” produced by Mark Champneys.