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New Video Presentation on YouTube: Intelligent Design & Scientific Conservatism

I have recently posted a new video on my Intelligent Design YouTube channel. In this video I discuss several areas in the philosophy of science and modern evolutionary biology, and their relationship to ID. These thoughts were prompted initially by an interesting paper by philosopher of science Jeffrey Koperski ‘Two Bad Ways to Attack Intelligent Read More…

asauber I think people are suffering from the game/pretense of expectations or preconceptions being met/not met. Upon detached examination (see Michael... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
jerry But it cannot be called a scientific endeavour until it starts researching the designer and the mechanisms used to realize... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Viola Lee Egner writes, " Perhaps the most common justification that abortion proponents give for supporting abortion is that the human embryo... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
JVL ET: As I said and you have proven, Stonehenge stands alone. Those other two are not like Stonehenge. Those other... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
jerry The existence or not of {forbidden term} has no impact on the validity of either evolution or ID. I’ve been... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/lfp-55-defining-clarifying-intelligent-design-as-inference-as-theory-as-a-movement/ – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Silver Asiatic Aristotle, Confucius, Siddhartha Gautama and the author of Ecclesiastes all addressed that within the same time frame 550-350 BC. – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
JHolo Jerry@112, again, I find myself agreeing with you. The existence or not of junk DNA has no impact on the... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry the late George V. Coyne, a Jesuit priest Maybe it’s Jesuits that are the problem. After all you seem screwed... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry Can we retire the term “junk DNA” since it essentially is a meaningless term. Why it is brought up I... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
chuckdarwin Relatd/49 Jerry Coyne is a secular Jew and emeritus professor of biology at UChicago--why would he be a spokesperson for... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Bob O'H: I’m sorry, is this the ID junk concept, or the actual one used by biologists, and referenced almost... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET JHolo: But it cannot be called a scientific endeavour until it starts researching the designer and the mechanisms used to... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JHolo Jerry: People are getting hung up on ID being science. ID adds to science definitely. But it is not science.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Bob O'H Sandy @ 101 - Have you searched newer articles than 2004 in the same Nature journal? I guess not because... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Technology sometimes uses redundant systems. The extra systems can be removed without affecting the function. Those removed systems were not... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry People are getting hung up on ID being science. ID adds to science definitely. But it is not science. ID... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Fred Hickson: My purpose (heh) is not to defend evolutionary theory and convince you and others here that it is... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Again, anyone claiming that the majority of any genome is junk has to tell us how blind and mindless processes... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Fred Hickson: A penguin flipper’s ancestry is an adaptation to flight. Propaganda isn't science. It's beyond pathetic when Fred uses... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Sandy @Fred Hickson: have you even read the article linked by BobO'Hara? "Knowles cautions that the study doesn't prove that non-coding... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...