Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS)

Understanding the engineering of living systems requires acceptance of the design of life

After a while, expecting randomness to develop exquisite machinery within a fixed time frame becomes ridiculous. The big question is, how much more might we learn if we assume it isn’t random?

Culture Darwinism Intelligent Design

Materialism hangs on to science now — not by evidence but by politics

A quibble with Brian Miller’s analysis above: It’s not “philosophy” as such that fronts Darwin’s stranglehold on the discussion of evolution. It’s the power to cause career ruin. That’s the stick end of politics, not of philosophy.

JVL Sandy: Biological Information: New Perspectives – Proceedings Of The Symposium https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=teExEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false That is interesting; many of the papers are based... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JVL Jerry: I say ID is not science but a layer of conclusions used on the findings of science and get... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
chuckdarwin Relatd/123 This started when I responded to a comment by SA (who is apparently Roman Catholic) that Ken Miller, the... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Sandy BobO'Hara But I don’t think there’s ever been a doubt that some junk DNA would be functional: the questions have... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry I say ID is not science but a layer of conclusions used on the findings of science and get asked... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JVL This may be of interest: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/15/1098347992/a-landmark-study-tracks-the-lasting-effect-of-having-an-abortion-or-being-denied – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
Sandy JVL Kairosfocus & Jerry: I was specifically thinking of a stated and widely accepted general ID research agenda. Something like:... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Bob O'H Sandy - I'm not sure what your point is. I responded to your claim that the concept of junk DNA... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JVL Silver Asiatic: If the fetus was part of the mother then there would only be the mother’s DNA. He knows... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
relatd Another attempt to justify abortion? An embryo is a unique human being. – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
relatd Chuckdarwin at 111, Where are you going with this? You don't have to be Catholic to recognize truth. But some... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Silver Asiatic JVL I just couldn’t figure out what BobRyan was actually saying. If the fetus was part of the mother then... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
Silver Asiatic It's the argument that the fetus is not conscious. Even if true (although it is proven that developing babies in... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
relatd What a strange situation. Souls are not biological things. The animist position is this: "a person who believes all natural... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
asauber "Aren’t you claiming to have proven a negative?" JVL, Not at all. Is a snake capable of building a nicely-stained... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
JVL Kairosfocus & Jerry: I was specifically thinking of a stated and widely accepted general ID research agenda. Something like: what... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JVL Asuaber: Ah, but Evolution has been shown to have limitations. It cant account for all the attributes we require. How... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
Sandy Bob O'Hara 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...
jerry I don’t always read every single comment here. What do you think would be a good ID-based research agenda? You... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus JVL, there is a growing published literature. That should tell you what research has been going on. KF – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
asauber "Why couldn’t it have been the other way around? We’re here, well suited to this collection of environments because evolution... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...