Michael Levin: The idea is that there is supposed to be emergence (of anatomy), and that kind of emergent complexity, but this idea that things are working towards a goal, as any navigational system fundamentally does, is not something that is very comfortable, certainly for molecular biology.
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Michael Denton: The Miracle of Man
Denton: “We now know what medieval scholars only believed, that the underlying rationality of nature is indeed ‘manifest in human flesh.’”
A rabbi shares the insights from a new space alien friend about random evolution
Lee Spetner, in his extremely informative book The Evolution Revolution, drives home the point that if you don’t have a mechanism to explain circumstantial evidence, your evidence simply doesn’t count.
An ID-friendly sci-fi novel
Here’s an intro to An Emergent Truth (2022) by Jeff Cregg.
According to sources: Sam Harris has deleted his Twitter account
Here: “The move comes after the Waking Up podcast host was slammed for stating that he hated Trump to such an extent that he wouldn’t have cared if Hunter Biden “had the corpses of children in his basement” in the lead up to the 2020 election.” Readers may better remember Harris as a prominent new Read More…
At Nature: Dozens of papers co-authored by Nobel laureate raise concerns
“Across the 32 papers that have so far drawn publisher scrutiny, all list Semenza as an author, but there are many combinations of different co-authors.” – Holly Else
At Nature: Authors’ names have “astonishing” influence in science
Surely the author of this paywalled article, Nicola Jones, is joking if she claims to be astonished. Does she think we are all the slow class? Her mistake.
George Ellis argues: We can’t know if the universe had a beginning
Well, if the universe did not have a start, it must always have existed. And that’s the dreaded territory of Hilbert’s Hotel and infinity apart from mathematics.
Bill Dembski offers some guidance on reading Darwinian Jason Rosenhouse
Bill Dembski: So much in Rosenhouse’s book is careless, sloppy, giving no indication that he has carefully studied and adequately comprehended my work or that of my colleagues.
Is there evidence for natural selection?
Otangelo Grasso: I am looking for comments, if my conclusion is sound, that evolution cannot be a theory. It cannot be tested, on how natural selection influences differential reproduction and the fitness landscape. Is there evidence for natural selection?
At The College Fix: Canceled intelligent design professor returns to Ball State U. with message: ‘God’s Not Dead’
College Fix: A physics professor whose class considering intelligent design thrust Ball State University into the national spotlight years ago is scheduled to return to his old campus, which had shut down his popular “Boundaries of Science” course.
At Bio-Complexity: The Cardiovascular System of Antarctic Icefish Appears to Have Been Designed to Utilize Hemoglobinless Blood
Gregory Sloop: …coordinated acquisition of multiple unique features, as required by the absence of hemoglobin, is inconsistent with Darwinian evolution, which postulates that species develop by small, incremental changes over time.
At City Journal: Review of book attempting to scuff out the lab leak theory re COVID-19
Wade: “The lab at Wuhan, where researchers were manipulating Covid-type viruses, received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Could Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, the NIH’s senior officials, have had any possible motive for suppressing their experts’ initial conclusion that the Covid virus was probably artificial?”
At Mind Matters News: Why it’s difficult for science to answer some basic questions
We can only research and see what happens, as the questions science is expected to answer grow more basic and more profound.
Otangelo Grasso has a new book out — Origin of life and the virus world
Good thing someone is including the virus world in the discussion.