Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 17, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Centre for Intelligent Design UK, coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, history, intelligent design, pandemic, viruses}

COVID-19 and Biochemical Design

_{Michael Behe
July 17, 2020

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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On a webinar today, I will discuss viruses in historical time, their basic biochemical design, where they came from, and what they might evolve into. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, atheism, bullying, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, editors, ideology, integrity, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, media, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, pandemic, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, scientists, Sean Carroll, The Hill, The Miracle of the Cell, Twitter, writers}

Politicized Science Can Be Deadly; Time to Restore Integrity

_{David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Imagine there was a pandemic and people found themselves greeting statements from scientists, conveyed by the media, with increasing jaded skepticism. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, centromere, chromatids, chromosomes, DNA, Drosophila melanogaster, egg cells, fertilization, functionality, information, kinetochore, meiosis, morphogenesis, oocyte, Robert Rosen, Turing Machine, vertebrates}

Chromosome Dynamics Has Egg-centric Features

_{Richard Sternberg
July 16, 2020

Intelligent Design

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In the words of Robert Rosen we have to “drastically reconsider what is meant by “genetic information.’” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beauty, Centre for Intelligent Design UK, coherence, coronavirus, COVID-19, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, molecular biology, pandemic, United Kingdom, virology, viruses}

Design in Virology? Webinars to Examine COVID-19

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 16, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The United Kingdom's Centre for Intelligent Design will host a series of YouTube livestreams, beginning this Friday, July 17. Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary computation, generations, genetic programming, programmers, software, Turing Machine, Turing test}

The State of the Art in Evolutionary Computation

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 16, 2020

Evolution

11}

As with early AI, the claims are inflated, unsupported, and the solutions do not scale to real world problems. Perhaps an EA “winter” is long overdue. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayes’ Theorem, Bayesian reasoning, belief, biological design, designer, evidence, Evolution News, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Life Sciences, Lydia McGrew, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, suboptimality}

The Advantages of a Bayesian Approach to ID

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 16, 2020

Intelligent Design

4}

Lydia McGrew gives the analogy that there is always a possibility that prehistoric civilizations did not have the ability or desire to make arrowheads. Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, computers, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Moore’s law, natural selection}

On Evolutionary Computation

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 15, 2020

Evolution

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From the early 1950s, multiple well-documented attempts to make Darwin’s algorithm work on a computer have been published. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 15, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, agnosticism, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, anti-science, atheism, cancel culture, censorship, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, evolution, Expelled (movie), free speech, Jonathan Wells, Lysenkoism, Marxism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Napoleon, Phillip E. Johnson, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Richard Sternberg, totalitarianism, William A. Dembski}

“Live Not by Lies”: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

_{Michael Egnor
July 15, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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The censors depend on active personal destruction not to silence us, but to get us (out of fear) to lie and thus silence ourselves. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Alpha Centauri, Bayes’ Theorem, cosmic fine-tuning, hydrogen, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, jackpot, living cells, Lydia McGrew, prior probability, probability}

Applying Bayes’ Theorem to Biological Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 15, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy

4}

Suppose we want to know the odds that a particular individual won last week’s Mega Millions jackpot in the United States. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, censorship, Darwinism, discrimination, dissent, Douglas Axe, Eric Hedin, Free Science, free speech, Granville Sewell, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, journalists, Michael Egnor, New York Times, Richard Sternberg, scientists, Scott Minnich, self-censorship, Smithsonian Institution}

Bari Weiss Knows What ID Scientists Already Knew

_{David Klinghoffer
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Advocates of intelligent design have experienced the lengths to which upholders of the “predetermined narrative” will go to punish dissent. Read More ›