Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", capitalism, economics, evolution, laissez-faire, Michael Denton, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Tom Wolfe}

Myth-Making and Malthus

_{Neil Thomas
January 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

4}

After reading Malthus out of personal interest, it dawned on Darwin how he might usefully appropriate the Malthusian analogy. Read More ›

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Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, computer science, computers, Conservation of Information, Discovery Institute, DiscoveryU, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary informatics, information, information theory, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, Kolmogorov information, Michael Behe, pancakes, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Study Evolution’s Information Problem with Engineer Robert Marks — and Save Over 50 Percent!

_{Science & Culture
January 10, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

How does information theory challenge Darwinian evolution? And how can the methods of probability be used to assess key evolutionary claims? Read More ›

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post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Charles Darwin, divine image, eagle, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, microscopes, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, whale}

The Legacy of Erasmus Darwin

_{Neil Thomas
January 9, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

Erasmus even touched on the theory of natural selection when he concluded that the strongest and most active animals would propagate the species. Read More ›

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post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Geology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, catastrophism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, HMS Beagle, Homo sapiens, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), naturalists, Principles of Geology, speciation, species, transmutation, uniformitarianism}

Darwin’s John the Baptist

_{Neil Thomas
January 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Geology, Life Sciences

5}

Catastrophism viewed the planet as having been molded by forces far more powerful than any observable at the present day. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Genetics
Medicine
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, China, CRISPR, eugenics, Harvest House, He Jiankui, human dignity, ID the Future, podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Wesley J. Smith}

Sound the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing

_{Science & Culture
January 7, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Genetics, Medicine

2}

As Wesley Smith explains, it’s not just that germline editing could lead to unintended health consequences. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, Greek gods, history, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Prometheus, South America, Travel}

The Evolution of Natural Selection

_{Neil Thomas
January 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

Remarkably, Darwin’s evolutionary ideas did not derive from his empirical observations in the South Seas or anywhere else. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Charles Thaxton, computer simulations, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, DNA, entropy, error catastrophe, evolution, intelligent design, interventions, mutation rate, natural selection, New York University, PNAS, randomness, Roger Olsen, science, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

NYU Scientists Confuse Artificial Selection with Darwinism

_{Science & Culture
January 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

It should be obvious: if you are controlling the mutations and selecting the outcomes, you are not doing Darwinism. Read More ›

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Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atmosphere, biology textbooks, early Earth, Eric Anderson, experiments, Harold Urey, ID the Future, Jonathan Wells, Miller-Urey experiment, podcast, Stanley Miller, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Chicago}

A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

_{Science & Culture
January 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

2}

It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Charles Darwin, Denis Diderot, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, gods, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Herschel, Judeo-Christian tradition, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lucretius, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorians}

Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention?

_{Neil Thomas
January 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, evolution, intelligent design, molecular biology, molecular machines, motility, natural selection, proteins, Waldean Schulz}

Third Paper Presenting an Engineering Analysis of the Flagellum Makes the Case for Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
January 6, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

13}

A diagram in the paper — showing interactions in terms of engineering schematics — is unlike any description of the flagellum that I’ve seen. Read More ›