Tag: mechanism

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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, molecular level, oncologists, organisms, physical law, physical world, podcast, purpose, random processes, Stephen Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, Telos: The Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose, 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
, allometric growth, bones, evolution, foresight, hierarchy, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mechanism, mutations, neo-Darwinian mechanism, PLOS Biology, regulatory control, 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
, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Archean Eon, early Earth, geologists, inference to design, intelligent design, lithosphere, mechanism, Nature, Nature Communications, Neoproterozoic Era, plate tectonics, subduction, 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, Biological Theory, demiurge, English, evo psych, evolution, Hell, inteligent design, intelligence, Italians, Jonathan Wells, materialists, mechanism, Michael Behe, natural selection, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, Subrena E. Smith, 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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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, system}

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

_{Science and 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, publishing, 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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 8, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, adaptation, exclusion, genotype, macroevolution, materialism, mechanism, microevolution, Modern Synthesis, natural selection, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Royal Society, scientific orthodoxy}

More Reports from Confidential Informants at the Royal Society

_{David Klinghoffer
November 8, 2016

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

ID sympathizers at the meeting "wonder whether we should all have some kind of signal...rub the left nostril twice perhaps?" Read More ›

group of students takes the test in class

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 4, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __nedited, "teach the controversy", chemical evolution, lesson plans, mechanism, objectivity, Science Education Policy, teaching evolution, universal common ancestry}

Picture This: What Teaching the Controversy over Evolution Looks Like in the Classroom

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 4, 2016

Evolution, Science Education

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In general terms, as I wrote to a parent recently, we recommend that students learn more about evolution, not less. Read More ›