Tag: mousetrap

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Author
Tova Forman

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cell machinery, Center for Science and Culture, chameleons, common sense, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, Howard Glicksman, humor, intelligent design, kinesins, Long Story Short, media, Michael Behe, microtubules, monkeys, mousetrap, newspapers, proteins, replication, Secrets of the Cell, shrimp, Steve Laufmann, turtles, Your Designed Body, YouTube videos}

I Grew Up with Intelligent Design Videos — Let’s Make More!

_{Tova Forman
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The scientific rigor and common sense in the CSC videos I watched as a child taught me to recognize media hype about evolution for what it is. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agency, ATP synthase, bacterial cell division, bacterial flagellar motor, bacterial flagellum, biofilm, chemotaxis, chess, Design Inference, DNA replication, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, Ireland, Irreducible Complexity, John Danaher, Magnus Carlsen, mousetrap, natural selection, proton pump, syllogism, theism, University of Galway}

A Misguided Critique of Irreducible Complexity

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Danaher’s critiques of irreducible complexity are poorly informed and based on misunderstandings of intelligent design and what its key defenders argue. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 4, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood clotting, California, Darwinism, devolution, Douglas Axe, error correction, evolutionary biologists, fitness landscape, Gaussian curves, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, metaphors, Michael Behe, mount improbable, mousetrap, North Dakota, Paris, phenotypes, PNAS, Richard Dawkins, savannah, Sewall Wright}

Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor

_{David Coppedge
January 4, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

What if the structure of the landscape is like a block of Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, beauty, Brian Miller, co-option, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, evolution, exaptation, hammer, Howard Berg, indirect evolution, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap, natural selection, proteins, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, serendipity, spring, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)}

Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? Consider the Bacterial Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
December 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

I hope it’s clear that Kojonen’s effort to harmonize evolution and design (as he envisions it) is not so easy in the case of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, “consensus science”, arms race, artificial intelligence, bias, ChatGPT, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Internet, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap, natural selection, Phillip E. Johnson, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, specification, specified complexity, teleology, William A. Dembski}

Using Intelligent Design to Train ChatGPT to Lay Aside Bias

_{William A. Dembski
May 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

5}

This exchange from yesterday underscores the need for “prompt engineers” that know how best to use and direct ChatGPT. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
April 21, 2021

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Zoology
Tagged
, angiosperms, Cambrian Explosion, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, convergence, creator, Darwinists, Free University, Gestalt, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Köln, logos, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Mexico, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Second Law of Thermodynamics, United States, University of Bonn, Utricularia, Wistar Symposium, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

_{Granville Sewell
April 21, 2021

Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Zoology

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Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, blood clotting, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary theory, function, ID the Future, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mousetrap, podcast, Russell Doolittle}

Blood Clotting Remains a Mousetrap for Darwin

_{Jonathan Witt
December 22, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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According to Michael Behe, his critics have managed to provide little more than hand-waving, smoke screens, and the sweeping of crucial problems under the rug. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, biological machines, biological systems, Darwinism, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap}

Michael Behe: Battle of the Mousetraps

_{Jonathan Witt
December 9, 2020

Evolution

1}

Behe used the common mousetrap to illustrate irreducible complexity, showing how various mechanical contrivances need all of their main parts to function. Read More ›

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Date
October 23, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Dover trial, evolution, humor, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lehigh University, logic, Michael Behe, molecular machines, mousetrap, New York Times, Science (journal), scientists, straw man, The Edge of Evolution}

November: In a New Book, Michael Behe Springs a Trap for Darwin

_{Evolution News
October 23, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

How could blind evolution arrange biochemical parts into complex functional wholes one small step at a time, as Darwin and his followers envision? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 13, 2020

Categories
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Aldovanda, aquatic bladderwort, carnivorous plants, Dionaea, foresight, Genlisea, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, John Innes Centre, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mousetrap, Utricularia, Venus flytrap, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Lesson from a Carnivorous Plant

_{David Klinghoffer
March 13, 2020

Life Sciences

4}

The aquatic bladderwort lacks the charm of a rose, a lily, cherry blossoms, or many other plants you can think of, but it has something else to recommend it. Read More ›