Tag: mousetrap

^{Type
post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 9, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Baylor University, biology, Brown University, bubonic plague, Charles Thaxton, Congress, Darwin’s Black Box., Douglas Axe, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, faculty, injectisome, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, James Shapiro, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kenneth Miller, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, motorcycles, mousetrap, naturalists, non-theistic evolution, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, protein evolution, Roger Olsen, San Francisco, Seattle Pacific University, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Meyer, T3SS, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theistic evolution, type 3 secretory system, University of Chicago, Walter Bradley, Yersinia pestis}

Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On: A Seminal Contribution to Biology

_{William A. Dembski
August 9, 2026

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

13}

It makes sense to think that the T3SS didn’t evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, Caenorhabditis elegans, Chlamydomonasuse, cilium, Darwin's Black Box, electron micrograph, evolution, flagellum, Gaia Pigino, intelligent design, intraflagellar transport, Irreducible Complexity, Kirsty Wan, Ludek Stepanek, Michael Behe, microalgae, mousetrap, organelles, oscillators, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pronk, Science (journal), springbok, University of Cambridge}

Galloping Flagella and Cilia Railroads — Celebrating Darwin’s Black Box

_{David Coppedge
August 4, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

These organelles, protruding from the cell into the environment, could not be built by a Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Tova Levengood

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, common sense, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, Howard Glicksman, humor, intelligent design, 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 Levengood
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

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 ›

^{Type
post

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, mousetrap, natural selection, syllogism, theism}

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 ›

^{Type
post

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, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, metaphors, Michael Behe, mount improbable, mousetrap, Paris, phenotypes, PNAS, Richard Dawkins, savannah}

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 ›

^{Type
post

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, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap, natural selection, proteins, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, serendipity, 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 ›

^{Type
post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, “consensus science”, 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 ›

^{Type
post

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, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, logos, 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

6}

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

^{Type
post

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

1}

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 ›

^{Type
post

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 ›