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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
June 16, 2021

Categories
Archaeology
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, crime, cryptography, inference, intelligent design, logic, medicine, paleoanthropology, William A. Dembski}

What Got My Attention about Intelligent Design

_{Paul Nelson
June 16, 2021

Archaeology, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Bill Dembski pointed out that design detection, far from being an esoteric inference, lay in fact at the center of many normal human inquiries and activities. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
May 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, biological origins, creationists, Darwinian evolution, English, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, John Maynard Smith, Nature (journal), neo-Darwinian theory, protein space, sequence space, Yale University}

Social Exclusion and the Evolution Debate

_{Paul Nelson
May 27, 2021

Evolution

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Social exclusion via refusal to engage is probably the most powerful and effective means of controlling the debate about origins within science. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
April 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Australia, Charles Marshall, codons, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Doubt, evolutionary theory, genetic code, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, Michael Yarus, paleontologists, Phillip E. Johnson, protein translation, ribosomes, RNA world, Science (journal), U.C. Berkeley, University of Chicago}

Charles Marshall: Origin of Life Could Have Happened “Millions of Times”

_{Paul Nelson
April 8, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Marshall at U.C. Berkeley represents establishment opinion in current evolutionary theory, and for good reason. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 11, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, genome, Human Errors, human genome, intelligent design, Nathan Lents, open reading frame, ORfan genes, orphan genes, undirected evolution, yeast}

Human Orphan Genes — Interesting YouTube Talk Tonight by Nathan Lents

_{Paul Nelson
February 11, 2021

Evolution

1}

A couple of years ago, Professor Lents became fascinated by orphan genes, and went looking for them in the human genome. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 2, 2021

Categories
Epistemology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 'Oumuamua, atheism, Avi Loeb, Carl Sagan, Design Inference, Eric Anderson, extraterrestrial intelligence, intelligent design, natural science, natural theology, ontology, scientific method, SETI}

The Most Valuable Aspect of Avi Loeb’s Intelligent Design Case

_{Paul Nelson
February 2, 2021

Epistemology, Physical Sciences

2}

The most valuable aspect of his case is the stimulus it provides to the question, "If non-human intelligences exist, how would we detect them?" Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, common descent, flowering plants, flowers, fossil record, Permian period, researchers}

Flowering Plants and Common Descent

_{Paul Nelson
January 29, 2021

Evolution

2}

If this accurately reflects the argument in the primary research paper, it provides a beautiful example of common descent as axiomatically true. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 28, 2021

Categories
Archaeology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 'Oumuamua, Avi Loeb, cosmic inflation, design detection, Design Inference, explanatory filter, extraterrestrial intelligence, Harvard University, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, philosophical naturalism, Principle of Mediocrity, Sean Carroll, technosignatures, William A. Dembski}

More on Avi Loeb’s Approach to Design Inferences

_{Paul Nelson
January 28, 2021

Archaeology, Physical Sciences

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Loeb’s argument represents the most salient example of risky intelligent design reasoning in mainstream science. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 25, 2021

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromosome, design triangulation, DNA, Francis Crick, James Watson, Nature (journal), topoisomerases}

A Beautifully Illustrated Open Access Review Article on DNA Topoisomerases

_{Paul Nelson
January 25, 2021

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Crick and Watson realized, very early on, that the winding double helix of DNA would cause all kinds of nasty tangles. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
December 1, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Tagged
, anti-science, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Michigan State University, paleontology, rocks}

Ixnay on the Ambriancay Plosionexhay

_{Paul Nelson
December 1, 2020

Evolution, Geology

2}

Shhh — don’t say it. The geological event, well, not “event,” as in something that happened about 541 million years ago...we don’t talk that way anymore. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 30, 2020

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, dark energy, dark matter, Lex Fridman, phylogenetics, Ptolemaic system, systematics, UC Berkeley}

“Our 20th- and 21st-Century Ptolemaic Epicycles”?

_{Paul Nelson
November 30, 2020

Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

2}

I am fascinated by the philosophy of science parallels to similar moves in molecular phylogenetics and systematics. Read More ›