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The Origins Institute at McMaster University in Canada

Check out http://origins.mcmaster.ca/about.html. Will ID get a fair hearing at this institute?

Biology Evolution

“Biologists of the Future”

Is it fair to say that the “biologists of the future” to whom Carl Woese is referring will not be Darwinian? The idea of a last common community, with a communally sophisticated biochemistry, raises another question: how did all this evolve? This is for someone else to answer, says Woese. “We don’t understand how to Read More…

Biology Darwinism Science

“The Spurious Foundations of Genetic Engineering”

Here’s an old paper, but one well worth looking at if you haven’t seen it already: “The Spurious Foundations of Genetic Engineering” by Barry Commoner. It goes without saying that the “spurious foundations” here are the same as those for neo-Darwinism.

Biology Evolution Science

Kansas IV — Care to weigh in?

The Kansas State Board of Education will hear from scientists and scholars next week about how best to present evolution in the classroom. If you are not testifying to the board, there is still a significant role for you to play in the wider debate. Namely, write supportive letters to the editor to appear during Read More…

Biology Evolution Science

Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life

Hubert Yockey attended the 1996 Mere Creation conference at Biola University. At that conference he and I discussed his role in the ID movement. He described himself as an outsider who could do more good for ID by maintaining his intellectual independence and directing his energies at refuting the evolutionary reductionists than by explicitly making Read More…

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Emergence of Biological Complexity — Cambridge Templeton Consortium

YesterdayÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Nature has, on page 24 of the advertisement section, an announcement requesting grant proposals for the John Templeton FoundationÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s “Purpose in the living world” research programme, titled “The Emergence of Biological Complexity” (for more go here and here). Purpose? Biological complexity? Evidence of fine-tuning in biological complexity? All in one breath? This may not Read More…

kairosfocus CR, we may not know everything about a designer, especially a contingent being designer, but one thing we do know.... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes CR @ So, it’s well adapted for the purpose of designing bacterium. A designer is "adapted" by who? And whose... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist Consciousness, the free rational person, the intelligent designer, cannot be explained by mindless physical stuff. Already addressed. "We don't know... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
asauber Jerry, ID does have something to do with religion in the sense that everyone (literally) has religious views about their... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus CR, how you love loaded terms. By obvious definition, a successful designer is CAPABLE of carrying out said design. Reginald... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry I bought the book and it is expensive, $29 for kindle version. It has from what I can see nothing... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus F/N: Observe, Willard and heirs: To have knowledge in the dispositional sense—where you know things you are not necessarily thinking... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist … that will not change the point that the relevant information, knowledge, design decisions, system architecture etc would have been... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus Origenes, reduction of rational, intuitive, imaginative and creative thought to computation on a substrate fails. Not least, as computation is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus CR, why not do an in page search for say, "in the intelligence"? You will find for example 302: As... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes KF @416 … the underlying incoherence is dismissiveness to the observed and/or experienced. Once self evident first truths are denied,... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus CR, the FIRST -- branch on which we all sit [so of first principle character] -- fact of experience is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus L&FP, 67: So-called “critical rationalism” and the blunder of denying [defeat-able] warrant for knowledge – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist @KF Drumbeat repetition of an answered assertion, pretending that it was not answered repeatedly. Ok, then which comment(s)? Please quote... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist If consciousness is fundamental and cannot be explained by something else, then this is where we must base our explanations... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus Origenes, the underlying incoherence is dismissiveness to the observed and/or experienced. Once self evident first truths are denied, chaos is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist I wrote… If the recipe for a bacterium is one of these entities that exhibit reliable signs of design, and... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry I do not like to discuss religion here because ID has nothing to do with religion but an interesting new... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
kairosfocus CR, do you understand what you clipped? Notice, ". . . A class of machine we have analysed since 1948,... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Origenes CR @405 First, if conciseness cannot be explained, then it’s unclear how this reflects any more of an explanation for... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
kairosfocus AF, sadly predictable. I suggest that the serious minded onlooker consults the likes of Habermas on that topic, probably the... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...