Category: Design inference
At Psychology Today: Opponent asks, does ID have a valid point about agency?
| May 24, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Psychology, Science |
It goes downhill from there. If I were a Darwinian, I would be embarrassed by this stuff. From Jeremy E Sherman at Psychology Today: I’m an atheist with a PhD. in evolutionary theory. I spend much of my time encouraging a new relationship with religion and spirituality modeled on our relationship with fiction. For example, […]
Does Nathan Lents, author of a “bad design” book really teach biology? A doctor looks at his claims about the human sinuses
| May 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Human evolution, Medicine |
From Nathan H. Lents at Skeptic: From neurosurgeon Michael Egnor at ENST: Lents writes: One of the important drainage-collection pipes is installed near the top of the largest pair of cavities, the maxillary sinuses, located underneath the upper cheeks… Putting the drainage-collection point high within these sinuses is not a good idea because of this […]
External testicles another instance of bad design?
| May 20, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution |
From Nathan H. Lents, author of Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, at Undark: Of course there’s an explanation (sperm like to develop at lower temperatures). But really: What intelligent designer could have come up with this? It sounds as though Lents has never heard of the concept […]
Michael Medved discusses intelligent design theory with Darwin’s Doubt author Steve Meyer
| May 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Design inference, ID, Intelligent Design |
Darwin’s Doubt deals with the Cambrian explosion of life forms about 550 million years ago. Philip Cunningham, who forwarded this link, notes, Stephen Meyer joins Michael to discuss the origins of life and the biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as […]
Biogeography: Life before ecology, when Canadian beavers overran Tierra del Fuego
| May 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Ecology, Intelligent Design |
A long time ago, everyone thought that nature was just a big, easily tinkered machine, there was a fad for transporting awesomely successful life forms across the globe (which they would not usually do themselves*). From Daniel Martins at the Weather Network: If you’re wondering what in blazes Canadian beavers are doing so far away from […]
Jonathan Wells on Lents’s claim that the human eye is wired backwards
| May 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Design inference, Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
From Jonathan Wells at ENST: … Dr. Lents just published his own book titled Human Errors, in which he repeats on page 5 his claim that the human eye is badly designed because the photoreceptor cells “appear to be installed backward.” Over thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins had used this claim as an argument for […]
SETI seeks to rebrand its goals, in pursuit of funding from the U.S. Congress
| May 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design |
From Marina Koren at the Atlantic: As recently as January of this year, Tarter suggested a rebranding for seti. “Seti is not the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. We can’t define intelligence, and we sure as hell don’t know how to detect it remotely,” she said. Seti “is searching for evidence of someone else’s technology. We […]
Back to “Science sez”? (What makes or privileges “scientific knowledge”?)
It seems we cannot escape epistemological questions when we address ID issues. AK opens the squeaky-hinged door yet again in the US National Association of Scholars thread. My comment: KF, 9: >>[AK,] I see your: If they are published in reputable peer reviewed journals, they are scientific findings. We need to distinguish key terms and […]
Why a four-eyed fossil lizard is a problem for Darwinism
| May 1, 2018 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution |
Yes, four eyes. From Gunter Bechly at ENST: Based on two fragmentary fossils, Smith et al. (2018) just described the new monitor lizard Saniwa ensidens from the 49 million year old Bridger Formation in Wyoming. Both known specimens surprisingly had four eyes! Additional to the normal pair of lateral lens eyes, and the usual parietal […]
Vid: Design theorist Doug Axe, author of Undeniable, at Ratio Christi
| April 30, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Douglas Axe here: The Power of Common Science (Ep. 153) Guest: Dr. Douglas Axe, Author of “Undeniable” Undeniable. See also: Undeniable: Darwinians stage manage evidence against their view into near oblivion Doug Axe vs Keith Fox: Is design in nature undeniable? and Andrew McDiarmid podcast with Doug Axe, author of Undeniable, “on the Design Intuition […]
What is design and why is it relevant?
For some time now, GP has had up a post on defending intelligent design. In following its discussion off and on (it’s budget season here), I see that the definition of design is on the table for discussion. I think I can help (and while I am at it — just noticed, contribute to BA’s […]
3-D vid of immune cells migrating
| April 26, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design |
From Steve Dent at Engadget: For the first time, scientists have peered into living cells and created videos showing how they function with unprecedented 3D detail. Using a special microscope and new lighting techniques, a team from Harvard and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute captured zebrafish immune cell interactions with unheard-of 3D detail and resolution. […]
Philosopher Stephen C. Meyer on how intelligent design is detectable
| April 26, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
Recently, Trinity International University’s Henry Center’s online journal Sapientia asked, “Can Science Detect Intelligent Design? An Introduction,” sponsored by Hans Madueme. Design theorist Stephen C. Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell, replied at Evolution News & Science Today: Where did the information in the cell come from? And how did the cell’s complex information […]
“Bad” antibodies become powerful weapons to fight disease
| April 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: The ‘bad apples’ of the immune system are also its secret weapon, according to major Australian research published today in the world-leading journal Science. In a world first, scientists from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research have revealed how a population of ‘bad’ antibodies in the immune system — which are usually ‘silenced’ […]
Jerry Coyne thinks Templeton has become anti-evolution
| April 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Religion |
From Jerry Coyne at Why Evolution Is True: Templeton wastes $ 630,791 on “biology” research, finally making its anti-evolution agenda explicit The John Templeton Foundation has announced yet another big grant for “biology” research, except that its principal investigators are a theologian (Christopher Southgate) as well as a biologist (Niles Lehman). Click on the screenshot […]
Dark matter find due to “less than perfect” optics
| April 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Design inference, Intelligent Design |
Darn. From Andrew Masterson at Cosmos: This was an exciting find. The separation of dark matter from “normal” visible matter is predicted in cosmology – but only if dark matter interacts with additional forces as well as gravity. The Abell 3827 data seemed to provide a strong indication that this was in fact the case, […]
A classic: ID and Millennials
| April 8, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Religion |
From RJS at Patheos: Ten years ago, when I first started writing on science and faith, Intelligent Design was a hot topic. It was in the news and high on the agenda for many in my local church. Today it has slid into the background, occasionally mentioned, but there are often other fish to fry. […]
Eggshells are designed to break from the inside
| April 7, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From Nicola Davis at the Guardian: Before being laid, bird eggs form a hard calcium-rich shell with three main layers. While it was already known that these thin from the innermost out as a chick grows in preparation for hatching – with calcium from the shell being incorporated into its skeleton in the process – […]
JAD on “Self-Replicating Machines and OoL”
| March 19, 2018 | Posted by kairosfocus under Back to Basics of ID, Design inference, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, Origin Of Life |
Here at UD, we often have commenters whose remarks are well worth headlining. Here, we have JAD in action, suggesting to GP: “Here is something you might consider as a seed for a future topic for a future OP.” Yup, and even as an embryonic thought, it is well worth posting — a first, rough […]
Jonathan McLatchie vs. Keith Fox: Has ID stood the test of time?
| February 24, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Saturday 24th February 2018 – 02:30 pm Seems to be up now in EST. Audio:Premier Christian Radio: A bacterial flagellum acts as the outboard motor on a bacteria. But is the complex arrangement of parts that enable it to do its job a result of design or evolution? Michael Behe first opened the debate on […]
