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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 22, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, complexity, Darwin's Black Box, egg cell, evolutionary theory, forethought, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, podcast, sexual reproduction}

Sex: A Masterpiece of Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 22, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“If any of these aspects…were different or non-existent, then sexual reproduction couldn’t take place. And so you require multiple codependent sub-functions.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 20, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, egg, evolutionary theory, foresight, forethought, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, podcast, sexual reproduction, sperm}

Sex: Engineered for Success

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 20, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 17, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, biologists, Charles Darwin, complementarity, evolutionary theory, flagellum, genotype, head, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, males, meiosis, middle piece, mitosis, modifications, podcast, sex, sexual reproduction, sperm cells}

Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 17, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Meaningful World, DNA, Euclid, genius, Hamlet, intelligence, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, nature, protein machines, sciences, William Shakespeare}

Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 10, 2024

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Jonathan Witt describes four characteristics common in all works of human genius and provides examples, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Euclid’s geometry. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 8, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Meaningful World, cosmos, Darwinism, elegance, evolution, faith, genius, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, mystery, podcast}

Nature Reveals Not Just Design but Genius

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 8, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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After studying the hallmarks of genius in humans, Witt and Wiker looked for the same characteristics in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 7, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Christianity, Doug Monroe, Greek, ID the Future, Latin, materialism, miracles, multiverse, Occam's Razor, Praxis Circle, scientific method, scientific revolution, skepticism, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, theology, worldview}

Stephen Meyer: Evidence of Mind in the Natural World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 7, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Can we scientifically detect the activity of a mind behind the universe? Philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer answers this question and more. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 6, 2024

Categories
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Discovery Institute, Doug Monroe, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, ID the Future, Isaac Newton, materialism, morality, podcast, Praxis Circle, relativism, Stephen Meyer, theism, worldview}

Stephen Meyer: Scientific Arguments for a Theistic Worldview

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 6, 2024

Epistemology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Are there strong scientific arguments for theism? Is there such a thing as objective morality? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, DNA, evolution, gene expression, genome, ID the Future, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, molecular biologists, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, Short Tandem Repeats}

Casey Luskin on Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 3, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design theorists have long argued against the idea that non-protein coding DNA is useless evolutionary junk. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 1, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, aliens, Bible, Brian Greene, Bryan Callen, determinism, faith and science, free will, intelligent design, interviews, James Webb Space Telescope, Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience, Michio Kaku, miracles, multiverse, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcasts, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Sean Carroll, Spotify, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, Time Magazine, transcendence}

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2023: Joe Rogan and Stephen Meyer Talk Science and Faith

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 1, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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For more than three hours, Rogan asked questions about the scientific argument for the reality of God, as well as Meyer’s reasons for believing the Bible. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 22, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cochlea, Darwinian process, ears, electrical signals, equilibrium, evolution, hearing, ID the Future, inner ear, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, natural selection, ossicles, podcast, sound waves, vibrations, Your Designed Body}

Jonathan McLatchie on the Gift of Hearing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 22, 2023

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“It strains credulity, to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system.” Read More ›