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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution}

Listen: Evolution on the Edge

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January 3, 2021

Evolution

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In an earlier book, Behe reviewed data from evolution studies of malaria parasites, HIV, and E. coli, and showed that evolutionary processes face severe limits. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, blood clotting, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary theory, function, ID the Future, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mousetrap, podcast, Russell Doolittle}

Blood Clotting Remains a Mousetrap for Darwin

_{Jonathan Witt
December 22, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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According to Michael Behe, his critics have managed to provide little more than hand-waving, smoke screens, and the sweeping of crucial problems under the rug. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 18, 2020

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Brian Miller, cells, Center for Science and Culture, chemists, computers, design detection, Discovery Institute, information, James Tour, Rice University}

Tour and Miller Tackle Cells as Computers, Alien Life, and More

_{Jonathan Witt
December 18, 2020

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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They cover everything from how simple can a cell get and still survive and reproduce to questions of design detection and bouncing cosmologies. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 16, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, cells, Discovery Institute, engineers, error correction, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, physicists, podcast, researchers, Rice University, synthetic organic chemistry}

Tour, Miller: Cells, and Life, from a Design Perspective

_{Jonathan Witt
December 16, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The conversation turns to the challenge and necessity of quickly evolving error-correction mechanisms in origin-of-life scenarios. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Christianity, disorder, entropy, feedback loops, first cell, free energy, information, James Tour, Jeremy England, order, Rice University, thermodynamics}

Listen: Tour and Miller on the Engines We Can’t Live Without

_{Jonathan Witt
December 14, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Also in this surprisingly accessible mix — feedback loops, physicist Jeremy England, and much more. Read More ›

African savanna with mountain in national wild park

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 13, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Africa, Bible, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinian materialism, English literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H.G. Wells, human brain, human origins, John Milton, Michael Keas, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, Texas, The Time Machine, Unbelievable, weapons}

Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

_{Jonathan Witt
December 13, 2020

Bioethics

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The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", 2001: A Space Odyssey, civilization, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, evolution, extinction, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, humans, literature, mutations, natural science, natural selection, naturalism, science fiction, sheep, Stanley Kubrick, The Time Machine, Thomas Hardy, violence}

Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

_{Jonathan Witt
December 12, 2020

Bioethics

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The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 11, 2020

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, Darwinian theory, devolution, E.O. Wilson, evolution, fiction, goodness, human nature, materialism, movies, mutations, natural selection, nobility, novels, sexual selection}

Darwin and the Devolution of Story

_{Jonathan Witt
December 11, 2020

Arts, Bioethics

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Darwinian materialism suggests that the impulse toward artistic creation is merely the human songbird attracting a mate. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, biological machines, biological systems, Darwinism, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap}

Michael Behe: Battle of the Mousetraps

_{Jonathan Witt
December 9, 2020

Evolution

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Behe used the common mousetrap to illustrate irreducible complexity, showing how various mechanical contrivances need all of their main parts to function. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
September 8, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Abraham, Apostle Paul, Bill Gates, biological machines, Christianity, Darwinism, deism, evolutionary theory, Genesis, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, Judaism, microscopes, Microsoft, miracles, modern science, Psalms, Romans, theism, theistic evolution}

Theistic Darwinism’s “Fully Gifted” Creation Theology Contradicts Itself, and Science

_{Jonathan Witt
September 8, 2020

Faith & Science

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Theistic evolutionists treat God as time-bound when it suits their argument, and beyond time when it suits their argument. Read More ›