Tag: Philip Ball

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Cambrian Explosion, Carnegie Institution, complexity, diversity, earth, eukaryotic cells, functional complexity, functionality, intelligent mind, kinetic energy, laws of nature, laws of physics, life, Michael Wong, mineralogists, non-living matter, organisms, Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, quantum theory, Robert Hazen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified complexity, speed of light, universe}

Theory of Increasing Complexity Fails the Test of Science

_{Eric Hedin
April 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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What are evolutionists to do when their theory runs afoul of the laws of nature? Why, propose a bold new law of nature! Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinian process, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary process, How Life Works, ID the Future, intelligent design, living systems, machine metaphor, meaning, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, universe, work}

Meaning and Purpose from a Darwinian Process?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Emily Reeves looks at the top sources of meaning in life, including religion, relationships, and work, and evaluates the evolutionary view of each. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Linguistics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, choice, consciousness, creativity, death, Denyse O'Leary, Emily Reeves, engineers, functional complexity, harmony, human being, immaterial genome, intelligence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life after death, living things, meaning, Mind Matters, nature, near-death experiences, Philip Ball, physicists, proportion, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer}

What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take

_{Eric Hedin
January 28, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Linguistics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", animals, bears, books, Casey Luskin, chihuahua, DNA, evolution, fiction, Foresight (book), foxes, genes, How Life Works, intelligent design, machines, Marcos Eberlin, meaning, Oskar Schindler, otters, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, Science and Faith in Dialogue, self-sacrifice, work, writing}

The End of the Machine Metaphor?

_{Emily Reeves
January 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cellular basis of consciousness, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian theory, evolution, genomes, James Shapiro, living cells, meaning, natural selection, panpsychism, Philip Ball, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purpose, random mutation, tautology}

Now, Here’s a Theory of Evolution Based on Cellular “Thinking”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Note how far we are from the world of Darwin’s followers now, while still staying with the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 11, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, conservatism, ENCODE project, human genome, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, junk DNA, molecular biology, Philip Ball, physicists, protein-coding genes, RNA, scientists, Systems Biology}

An Object Lesson in How Not to Do Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 11, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The story the public is told is contrary to evidence but scientists have to keep telling it because otherwise the wrong people might benefit. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Darwinism, David Coppedge, Denis Noble, evolution, free speech, intelligent design, Leo Strauss, Maimonides, persecution, Philip Ball, Plato, reader, Robert Shedinger, Socrates, Wikipedia, writing}

Persecution and the Art of “Darwinist” Writing

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The “right kind of reader” will take the hint and absorb the “esoteric” meaning. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, Ann Gauger, atheism, David Berlinski, faith and science, God's Grandeur, Günter Bechly, Jews, kinesin, molecular machines, Muslims, Philip Ball, proteins, Protestants, Robert Shedinger, Roman Catholic, Thomas Nagel, Will Herberg}

Ann Gauger on EWTN, and Intelligent Design’s Universality

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

I find this openness and lack of dogmatism uplifting, and an indicator that ID is trying to follow the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
June 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Barbara McClintock, chicken-and-egg problem, DNA polymerase, ENCODE, How Life Works, living cells, naturalism, Philip Ball}

Reading Between the Lines: Intelligent Design in Philip Ball’s Non-ID Book

_{Robert Shedinger
June 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Ball, in describing this new biology, feels the need to appeal to design language despite his overt disavowal of any support for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemists, biologists, Charles Darwin, DNA, evolution, function, genome, graduate students, How Life Works, ignorance, intelligent design, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nature (journal), null hypothesis, Philip Ball, postdocs, researchers, science journals, science writers, University of Toronto}

With One Short Rule, Philip Ball Explains Why “Junk DNA” May Be a Placeholder for Ignorance

_{Paul Nelson
February 20, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Here is Ball’s proposed rule for molecular biologists: “stop assuming,” he writes, “we know which parts of DNA matter and which don’t.” Read More ›