Tag: mechanism

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
March 18, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 3D spatial organization, active matter, Aristotle, biology, cargo recognition, cascades, cells, condensates, cycles, cytoplasm, Darwin's Black Box, dissipative systems, DNA transcription, droplets, electrolytes, endoplasmic reticulum, Energy, enzyme activity, function, goal-directedness, Golgi bodies, Ilya Prigogine, intentionality, intracellular landscape, living systems, lysosomes, machines, macromolecules, matter, mechanism, medical school, Michael Behe, mitochondria, molecular biology, molecular grammar, naturalism, neo-Darwinian evolution, nucleus, organisms, physics, Riccardo Babic, scaffolding, Science and Culture Today, signaling cascades, St. Thomas Aquinas, structure, TCA cycle, telos, tornadoes, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Velcro, whirlpools}

Active Matter: How Function Determines Structure

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
March 18, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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As always, the approach of naturalism is to reduce the complexity of natural phenomena to basic physical laws. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

36}

Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, biology, cancer, Evolution News, faith and science, humans, ID the Future, intentionality, materialism, mechanism, mechanistic view, medical school, oncologists, organisms, physical world, podcast, purpose, random processes, Stephen Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, Thomistic philosophy}

Stephen Iacoboni: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 18, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

3}

Ultimately, Dr. Iacoboni aims to help his fellow physicians escape the “suffocating boundaries of mechanism and materialism.” Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, baby, David Klinghoffer, DNA, doctors, education, Evolution News, healing, health, mechanics, mechanism, medical school, medical science, medicine, patients, physicians, science, scientific atheism, soul, womb}

The Machine Model in Medicine

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 7, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Metaphysics

5}

The unfortunate fact is, there really are those two conflicting sides in medicine. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, bones, evolution, foresight, hierarchy, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mechanism, mutations, neo-Darwinian mechanism, PLOS Biology, tissues}

Bone Growth Demonstrates Irreducible Complexity and Hierarchical Control

_{David Coppedge
October 24, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

How does a bone “know” to keep its structures at proper ratios along its length as it grows? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 24, 2021

Categories
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, early Earth, geologists, intelligent design, mechanism, Nature, Nature Communications, plate tectonics, subduction zones}

Subduction and the “Mechanism” of Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
February 24, 2021

Geology, Intelligent Design

5}

We can see plenty of evidence that intelligent design in nature is real, but it’s not always clear exactly how that design is instantiated in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 21, 2020

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, demiurge, English, evolution, Hell, intelligence, Jonathan Wells, materialists, mechanism, Michael Behe, natural selection, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, teleology, William A. Dembski}

On Intelligent Design, an Italian Philosophy Journal Takes a Step in the Right Direction

_{Casey Luskin
May 21, 2020

Evolutionary Psychology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Philosophy

9}

Earlier today we saw that philosopher Subrena E. Smith levied a harsh critique of evolutionary psychology. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, anti-science, Darwinism, DNA repair, epigenetics, evolutionary time, fish, foresight, health, human genome, intelligent design, mechanism, medical research, New York University, PNAS, salmon, strengths and weaknesses, students}

DNA Repair, Fish Shape, Epigenetics: Science Advances, Darwin-Free

_{Science & Culture
January 15, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

7}

According to a robotically repeated talking point favored by evolution proponents, loyal adherence to Darwin’s theory is crucial to the future of biological research. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 13, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Biola University, BioLogos, creativity, evolution, Los Angeles, mechanism, neo-Darwinian theory, science, Stephen Meyer, theism, theistic evolution}

Meyer: An “Epistemic Obligation” to Embrace Darwinism?

_{David Klinghoffer
July 13, 2018

Evolution, Philosophy

2}

The issue comes down to the creative power of the unguided evolutionary mechanism, or the lack of it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 18, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Wegener, Continental Drift, Douglas Axe, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Laurence Moran, mechanism, Michael Denton, Michael Keas, plate tectonics, Robert Crowther, Stephen Meyer, theory, University of Toronto, William A. Dembski}

How to Think About Minority Science Views — The Case of Plate Tectonics

_{David Klinghoffer
October 18, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

5}

The idea that continents drift is now taken for granted, but it wasn’t always. Read More ›