Tag: Denis Noble

Digital illustration DNA structure in blue background

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic control circuits, bacteria, Bill Gates, blind evolution, Casey Luskin, computer programming, conditional logic, conditional logic control circuits, Denis Noble, DNA, enzymes, evolution, evolutionary biology, glucose, intelligence, intelligent design, lactose, Oxford University, Perry Marshall, promoter, pseudocode, RNA polymerase, Third Way of Evolution}

No. 2 Story for 2025: My Conversation with Denis Noble About Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
December 31, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, complex biological features, Denis Noble, epigenetic change, evo-devo, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Lamarckian theory, macroevolution, microevolution, Modern Synthesis, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, niche construction, On the Origin of Species, teleonomy, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago}

Third Way Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

_{Casey Luskin
December 11, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Things were peachy until the late 20th/early 21st century, when some biologists began to acknowledge that neo-Darwinism had a glaring explanatory deficit. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, cancer, cell types, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, Denis Noble, evolution, genes, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Evolution, metazoans, Michael Behe, mutations, National Cancer Institute, Perry Marshall, reproduction, survival, tumor, Vanderbilt University}

Two Peer-Reviewed Papers Apply Behe’s “Darwin Devolves” Thesis to Cancer

_{Casey Luskin
September 15, 2025

Evolution, Medicine

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One day in the mid 2010s, Ann Gauger and I received a message that an ID-friendly scientist was in town and wanted to meet us. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, biology, Casey Luskin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, engineering, engineers, function, ID 3.0, information, intelligent design, intention, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Perry Marshall, purpose, random mutation, randomness, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, Venn diagram}

Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2025

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic control circuits, bacteria, Bill Gates, blind evolution, Casey Luskin, computer programming, conditional logic, conditional logic control circuits, Denis Noble, DNA, enzymes, evolution, evolutionary biology, glucose, intelligence, intelligent design, lactose, Oxford University, Perry Marshall, promoter, pseudocode, RNA polymerase, Third Way of Evolution}

My Conversation with Denis Noble and Perry Marshall About Evolution and Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
July 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, ACLU, Antonin Scalia, Arkansas, Ball State University, censorship, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, Dayton, Denis Noble, education, Eric Hedin, evolution, free speech, Günter Bechly, history, ID 3.0, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John Scopes, Julian Huxley, Michael Behe, monkey law, National Center for Science Education, Neo-Darwinism, npr, Richard Sternberg, Scopes trial, speech codes, Stephen Jay Gould, Tennessee, tenure, The Daily Wire, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University}

A Century After the Scopes Trial, Censoring Spirit on Evolution Still Thrives

_{Casey Luskin
July 22, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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From evolutionists, a surge of persecutions has included tenure denials, job blacklisting, and speech codes. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, China, cooperation, COVID-19, Denis Noble, Erasmus Darwin, eugenics, evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joana Xavier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Marxism, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, Peter Corning, Stuart Kauffman, UNESCO, Zeitgeist}

Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism

_{Daniel Witt
June 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 19, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, Brian Miller, calculations, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Denis Noble, Empedocles, evolution, information, Irreducible Complexity, Jupiter, Michael Behe, Middle Ages, Nature (journal), neurons, Oxford University, Peter Corning, Plato's Revenge, Presocratic philosophers, René Descartes, telescope, Theodosius Dobzhansky, University of Zurich}

Settled Science Is Becoming Radically Unsettled: Get Ready for Revolutions

_{Daniel Witt
May 19, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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It might be early to say whether Richard Sternberg's calculations are correct — but the point is, this kind of calculation is only just becoming possible. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, cognition, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, electric fields, ENCODE project, evolutionary theory, Forrest Mims, genome, goal-directedness, Harvard University, human genome, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Levin, minds, Perry Marshall, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, purpose, random mutations, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman, teleonomy, Tufts University, William A. Dembski}

Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 21, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA. Read More ›