Tag: biological complexity

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 5, 2026

Categories
Earth Sciences
Origin of Life
Planetology
Tagged
, AlphaFold, atmosphere, biochemistry, biological complexity, chance, disorder, entropy, Francis Crick, Imperial College London, informational content, intelligence, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Leslie Orgel, LUCA, molecular assembly, origin of life, panspermia, physical biasing, primitive earth, protocell, Robert E. Endres, universe, water, zircon}

New Paper Argues for the “Unreasonable Likelihood of Being”

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 5, 2026

Earth Sciences, Origin of Life, Planetology

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How long did life have to get started? Endres notes that life on earth could not have emerged until after two early global sterilizing impacts. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 15, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithm, Australia, biological complexity, Board of Trustees, Bondi Beach, Bruce Chapman, Center for Science and Culture, Christian Nationalism, Christians, colleagues, conservatives, cosmos, Discovery Institute, faith, insinuation, Jews, John West, leadership, social media, Stephen Meyer, think tank, Tucker Carlson}

At a Wrenching Time, My Gratitude for Discovery’s Leadership

_{David Klinghoffer
December 15, 2025

Ethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

It was last month that another think tank — with a lot of great people there — split down the middle over the organization’s partnership with Tucker Carlson. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, Charles Murray, conversion, cosmos, Denyse O'Leary, evolution, faith and science, Fornace, Fornace School of Philosophy, Giuseppe Sermonti, intelligent design, interviews, Italy, life, matter, Michael Egnor, mind, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Stephen Meyer, Taking Religion Seriously, Thanksgiving, The Immortal Mind, The Miracle of Man}

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are the Top 3 Reasons for Optimism on Intelligent Design in 2025

_{David Klinghoffer
November 27, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

One reason is the way any materialist explanation of cosmic origins keeps looking more and more implausible. See the new book by Charles Murray on that. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, behaviors, biological complexity, body plans, Casey Luskin, characters, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, faith and science, ID the Future, Jacob Vasquez, life, natural selection, neo-Darwinian model, origin of life, podcast, random mutation, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book), Truthful Hope}

Casey Luskin: Theistic Evolution and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 21, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

3}

Casey Luskin addresses the inadequacy of natural selection and random mutation to generate biological complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, Darwinian evolutionary mechanism, development, DNA, Getting the Facts Straight, ground clearing, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, PBS, Plato's Revenge, podcast, public education, Richard Sternberg, United States}

Jonathan Wells Cleared the Ground for Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 11, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

2}

He had a sense of the immateriality of the genome, much like that of his friend Richard Sternberg. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academia, animals, biological complexity, biology, biopsychism, chemistry, Communicative & Integrative Biology, Evolution and the Fate of Humankind, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Manuel DeLanda, Marco Masi, materialism, metaphysical vitalism, methodology, Michael Levin, min, nest-building, nurturing, Peter Corning, physical vitalism, physics, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, protection, Richard Sternberg, synergy, teleonomy, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vital force, vitalism}

Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism

_{Daniel Witt
June 6, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

11}

As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, biology, chemistry, Christianity, Darwinian theory, Douglas Axe, faith and science, history of science, intelligent design, life, origins, scientific theories, Sean McDowell, Second Law of Thermodynamics, theistic evolution, UC Berkeley, universe}

Doug Axe on Darwinian Evolution: “One of the Weakest, Most Pathetic Scientific Theories”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 21, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Dr. Axe shared a particularly poignant memory of being a 19-year-old studying at UC Berkeley and attending a chemistry lecture. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, biological complexity, convergence, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, laws of nature, Ockham’s razor, preconditions, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, science, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), William A. Dembski}

Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

_{Casey Luskin and Stephen Dilley
March 19, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

8}

If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, application, Bijan Nemati, biological complexity, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, Daniel Reeves, dissenters, events, evolution, evolutionary biology, graduate school, graduate students, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Iron Curtain, learning, professors, science, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, teachers, undergraduates}

Summer Seminars: Beyond the Evolutionary Firewall

_{David Klinghoffer
March 12, 2024

Intelligent Design, Science Education

5}

The Center for Science and Culture is populating a community of dissenters in academia with the annual all-expenses-paid Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
February 27, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, biological complexity, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, causes, convergent evolution, Darwinian evolution, David Glass, design detection, Emily Reeves, evolution, Evolution News, fitness landscapes, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mutations, preconditions, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), tinkering, weddings}

To Dance at Two Weddings: Rope Kojonen’s Evolutionary Quest

_{Stephen Dilley
February 27, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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According to a proverb, you can’t dance at two weddings at the same time. Dr. Kojonen believes that you can. Read More ›