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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, appetite, brain, Brown University, Cartesian dualism, Christianity, consciousness, emotion, evolution, eye, intellect, Kenneth Miller, materialism, memory, mind-brain problem, neuroscience, perception, René Descartes, res cogitans, res extensa, Roman Catholic, sensations, soul, The Human Instinct, Thomas Aquinas}

Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
March 8, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", argument from ignorance, BioLogos Foundation, Brown University, Charles Marshall, CSI, Denis Lamoureux, evolution, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, paleontologists, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), UC Berkeley, University of Alberta}

Using the Positive Case for Intelligent Design to Answer Common Objections to ID

_{Casey Luskin
May 4, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As for the “God of the gaps” charge, the basic objection is that ID is an argument from ignorance, based upon what we don’t know. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, axon, brain, Brown University, Duke University, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, library, Max Planck Institute, neuroscience, proteins, purpose, retina, Rockefeller University, visual cortex}

Brain Neurons Are “Comparable to a Library”

_{David Coppedge
April 8, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s one of those occasions in biology (not rare) when the term “intelligent design,” despite other merits, falls flat as a description. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brown University, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, evolution, faith, Henri Bergson, Holy Spirit, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Mere Christianity, Nobel Prize, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, theistic evolution}

C. S. Lewis and Theistic Evolution

_{John G. West
October 28, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Biological development is either the result of an unintelligent material process or a process guided by a mind, aka intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, bacterial flagellum, Brown University, Cambridge University Press, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Debating Design, function, Irreducible Complexity, John McDonald, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Michael Ruse, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Paul Davies, Richard Swinburne, Stuart Kauffman, type III secretion system, William A. Dembski}

Excerpt: An Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution

_{Michael Behe
December 18, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. Read More ›

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Date
August 31, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropology, archeology, BioLogos, Brown University, Charles Darwin, Darwinists, Deborah Haarsma, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, Modern Synthesis, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Reductionism, teleology, The Descent of Man, The World of Life}

Biology’s “Best-Kept Secret” — Alfred Wallace’s Classic Is Out Now in a New Edition

_{Science & Culture
August 31, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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On the subject of evolution, the scientific “consensus” depends on maintaining the our forgetfulness of Charles Darwin’s great partner, rival, and challenger. Read More ›

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Date
February 18, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, birds, Brown University, Current Biology, entomology, Flight, hummingbirds, insects, intelligent design, London, moths, Nature (journal), ornithology, UCLA}

Intelligent Design in Birds, Insects Inspires Aeronautics and More

_{Science & Culture
February 18, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Scientists in London filled a flight tunnel with thousands of tiny soap bubbles to reveal the motions of air as the owl flies through them. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 15, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, antifreeze protein, bacterial flagellum, Brown University, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian processes, evolution, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, molecular machines, PNAS, podcast, Ray Bohlin, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines (film)}

With Kenneth Miller, Behe’s Would-Be Nemesis, History Repeats Itself

_{David Klinghoffer
March 15, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The Brown University biologist is still out there, reassuring the world that unguided “evolutionary mechanisms” comfortably explain the wonders of biology. Read More ›

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Date
March 15, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Brown University, Cornelius Hunter, DNA, evolution, genes, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerry Coyne, just-so stories, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Michael Behe, Monty Python, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, proteins, RNA, serendipity, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne, Ken Miller Revive a “Fishy Story”

_{Science & Culture
March 15, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Coyne is sure this is going to come as a rude shock, to our colleague and contributor Dr. Behe in particular, “a slap in the face of IDers like Michael Behe — a fish slap like the one below.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 14, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Brown University, children, doctors, Ezekiel Emanuel, gender dysphoria, human experimentation, ideology, New England Journal of Medicine, patients, Politicians, surgery, The Federalist}

But Wesley, It’s a Study!

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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Sorry. In our ideological times, that doesn’t mean as much as it once did. Read More ›