Casey Luskin: We’ve seen a decline in the amount of high quality science writing from blogs like Panda’s Thumb. Some old voices in the Darwin blogosphere have diminished and some new ones have popped up. Jerry Coyne certainly is one of the ones that has really popped up on his very popular blog.
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From Evolution News: Luskin Explores Design Evidence from Geology
For those who have eyes to see, nature reveals design across the scientific disciplines.
Casey Luskin at Hillfaith: Using the Positive Case for Intelligent Design to Answer Common Objections
Luskin: ID is not based upon what we don’t know — an argument from ignorance or gaps in our knowledge — but rather, is based upon what we do know about the origin of information-rich structures, as testified to by the observed information-generative powers of intelligent agents.
Casey Luskin asks: Can claims about punctuated equilibrium accommodate the scientific data?
Luskin: Punctuated equilibrium compresses the vast majority of evolutionary change into small populations that lived during shorter segments of time, allowing too few opportunities for novel, beneficial traits to arise.
How do we know an intelligent agent produced something and it is not just an accident?
Although intelligent agents need not generate novel structures abruptly, they can do so.
Has interest in intelligent design WANED?
A new ID the Future episode continues the debate between design theorist Casey Luskin, an editor of The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, and science historian Adam Shapiro, co-author of Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction.
What? Paper on human mutation admits to “fundamentally challenging” neo-Darwinism?
But Darwinism about human beings is the bread and butter of pop science media! If that’s under threat now, what will become of, for example, evolutionary psychology?
Here’s the webinar on topoisomerase, the complex ,specified “untangling” enzyme in our cells
Introduction: The carefully orchestrated untangling activity of topoisomerase II doesn’t happen by accident. This enzyme is a molecular machine that only works because its amino acid sequence is highly specified to provide a special shape and structure necessary for its function. In other words, topoisomerase enzymes contain high levels of complex and specified information—a hallmark of intelligent design.
Common ancestry: If the Khan Academy must front Darwinism, why use such unconvincing arguments?
Because of widespread convergent evolution, claims about common ancestry can’t be based on similarity of form alone — any more than we can assume that two people who look quite similar (body doubles) must be closely related. Life is more complex than that.
At Mind Matters News: Source of most animal intelligence still a mystery
Question: Magnetic poles can shift. We can suddenly have north become south and south become north. The continents can drift. So can these animal behaviors accommodate changes in earth’s magnetic field or its geography in order to allow animals to continue to migrate? No one really knows the answers to this stuff as yet.
At Mind Matters News: Neuroscience mystery: How do tiny brains enable complex behavior?
Eric Cassell notes that insects with brains of only a million neurons exhibit principles found only in the most advanced man-made navigation systems. How?
Casey Luskin, geologist, doesn’t make nice with Darwinians
In recent years, the ever-compliant US evangelicals have been making nice with the Darwinians* (nature read in tooth and claw, and all that). Casey Luskin did not get the memo.
Casey Luskin on how the fossil record challenges Darwin
Luskin: One of the largest difficulties with evolution is the word itself. Supporters of Darwinian theory love to switch the word around so the average person can never be sure what they are talking about.
Register for a webinar with Eric Cassell on remarkable animal algorithms
After an interview between Luskin and Cassell, the cyber-floor will be opened for the audience to ask Cassell questions about his ideas.
Casey Luskin: The mytho-history of Adam, Eve, and William Lane Craig
Long a defender of orthodoxy, Craig seems to want to prune the orthodoxies he is expected to defend. But the pruning process in which he is engaged can never really stop. The “sensible God” is most likely the one looking back at us from our medicine cabinet mirrors.