Stephen J. Iacoboni‘s article contains a profound question… One cannot understand organisms — that is, life itself — without incorporating the concept of purpose within biology, the science of organisms. Such purpose is observable and measurable, and therefore well within the bounds of scientific inquiry. In order to understand life, it is not sufficient to simply observe what is Read More…
Tag: Evolution News
At Evolution News: Salt of the Earth Regulates Habitability
Not surprisingly, researchers have pointed to another criterion that must be finely tuned in order for life to persist on Earth as it has throughout most of its history.
At Evolution News: Early Humans Were More Sophisticated than We Thought
Denyse O’Leary writes: Recent findings suggest that some things we take for granted in human civilizations are much older than thought. Now, these findings are provisional but they are worth looking at. Some owl stones from 5,500 and 4,750 years ago may be children’s art: But new research suggests the palm-sized plaques decorated in geometric patterns and with Read More…
At Evolution News: Your Designed Body: Hearing Is a Symphony of Parts
How did the “engineering design instructions” for constructing the intricate, interconnected system of hearing become encoded into our genome? Can unguided forces of nature do this?
At Evolution News: Your Intelligently Designed Body Is a System of Systems
Natural processes tend to destroy information-rich, functional systems over time. The body’s remarkable hierarchy of interdependent life-support systems stands as the most unnatural physical phenomenon in the universe.
At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy Is the “Mother of all Chicken-and-Egg Problems”
David Klinghoffer writes: Here’s a really devilish problem to pose to your favorite friend, teacher, or relative who’s a Darwinist true believer. As Your Designed Body co-author Steve Laufmann observes, the relationship between an embryo and its mother is a relationship between unequals. The embryo’s systems are not yet complete so it depends on its mother for Read More…
From Evolution News: Prigogine’s Self-Organization vs. Specified Biological Complexity
Self-organization, exemplified in “dissipative structures” (Prigogine), which can arise in systems maintained far from thermodynamic equilibrium, result in a decrease in information and do not constitute a natural explanation of information-rich biological systems.
At Evolution News: Intelligent Design and Man’s Free Will
C. S. Lewis: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
Man-ape chasm of differences
“Human beings have mental powers that include the material mental powers of animals but in addition entail a profoundly different kind of thinking.”
At Evolution News: Intelligent Design and the Regularity of Natural Law
This article addresses one of the most commonly raised objections to the reality of God as Creator – Why did God not make a perfect world?
At Space.com: NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft aces close moon flyby in crucial engine burn
“Orion zoomed just 80 miles (130 kilometers) above the lunar surface Monday (Nov. 21) at 7:44 a.m. ET. and completed an engine burn needed to continue its historic mission.”
At Evolution News: An Argument from C. S. Lewis for Intelligent Design
“ccording to Lewis in these essays, “universal evolutionism” has schooled us to think that in nature complicated functional things naturally arise from cruder and less complicated things.”
At Evolution News: Meyer and Klavan: How the Multiverse Ruins Science…and Storytelling
David Klinghoffer writes: Stephen Meyer had a fascinating conversation with podcaster Andrew Klavan and his son Spencer Klavan. The topic: how the multiverse theory destroys not only science (as Meyer explains in Return of the God Hypothesis) but storytelling. The younger Klavan is Associate Editor at the Claremont Review of Books and an Oxford PhD in classics. Impressive Read More…
At Evolution News: There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”
“There is no such thing as a settled theory of evolution. On that point, textbook orthodoxy is simply false.”
At Evolution News: To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths
The cyclical cosmological model: “No empirical evidence supports any of the theory’s essential components.”