Tag: form

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, birds, carbon, computers, flowers, form, function, hydrogen, insects, laboratories, life, Life Itself, microscopes, natural law, nature, nectar, nitrogen, oxygen, Plato, polar bears, pollinators, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, seals, shape, telescopes, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism, water, wood}

A Closer Look at Natural Law

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›

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Author
Angus Menuge

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, consciousness, form, human beings, hylomorphism, idealism, intentionality, matter, Minding the Brain, physicalism, rationality, Robert J. Marks II, soul}

A Paradigm Crisis for Physicalism

_{Angus Menuge
September 29, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

This crisis has converged with two other currents of change with the surprising result that alternatives to physicalism are now taken seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, bones, cells, electrical signals, evolution, femur, form, function, ID the Future, intelligent design, machines, material processes, Michael Behe, organs, podcast, Secrets of the Cell, thought experiment, tissues}

Try to Write Instructions for a Femur; Go On, Just Try

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Professor Behe invites us to join him for a sobering thought experiment: attempting to build an instruction manual for a human femur bone. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, biomolecules, chemical reactions, form, function, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism}

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, bad design, BIO-Complexity, bones, Brian Miller, Bristol University, evolution, flexibility, form, function, intelligent design, ligaments, muscles, Nathan Lents, Stuart Burgess}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Answers Claims of “Bad Design” of the Human Foot/Ankle

_{Casey Luskin
March 24, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

6}

Many who have studied the foot recognized its “excellent design." Leonardo da Vinci called the human foot “a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 7, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Colorado State University, computer science, design triangulation, form, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, materials, motility, Paul Nelson, signals, Steve Laufmann, Systems Biology, timing, Waldean Schulz}

New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
July 7, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

9}

This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 6, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blindness, brain, cerebral cortex, eyes, form, mind, neurobiology, perception, philosophy of mind, retina, sensations, soul}

The Mystery of Blindsight Helps Us Understand the Mind Better

_{Michael Egnor
April 6, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Blindsight is the remarkable ability of some blind people to sense objects that they cannot actually see. Read More ›

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Date
September 30, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, fitness, form, function, ID the Future, intelligent design, locomotion, Michael Denton, podcast, primal blueprint, The Miracle of the Cell}

Michael Denton Explores the “Third Infinity”

_{Science and Culture
September 30, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

1}

The diversity of cells — their variety of form, function, and locomotion — is beyond describing, with some cells almost seeming sentient, indeed ingenious. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Physics
Social Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", act, adaptation, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, Erwin Schrödinger, form, genotype, Isaac Newton, matter, phenotype, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, theory, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

Aristotle and Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 8, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Linguistics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics, Social Sciences

6}

The greatest engine of atheism in modern times — Darwin’s theory — is nothing more than a bastardization of the strongest philosophical argument for God’s existence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, disorder, entropy, evolution, Fifth Way, form, ignorance, information, knowledge, medicine, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, quantum physics, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

On Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 5, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Physics

5}

Universal Darwinism is the belief that Darwin’s theory can be applied fruitfully to many scientific disciplines, not just to biology. Read More ›