Tag: Roger Olsen

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Baylor University, car mats, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, coconuts, Colorado School of Mines, Dignity Coconuts, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, engineering, intelligent design, Jay Richards, materials, mosquitoes, origin of life, Philippines, Robert J. Marks II, Roger Olsen, Stephen Meyer, technology, Texas A&M University, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, weapons, William Dembski}

Robert Marks Remembers ID and Tech Pioneer Walter Bradley

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In 1984, three scientists dared to probe the mystery of life’s origin by putting the prevailing theories of prebiotic and chemical evolution to the test. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 23, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Adler & Adler, Baylor University, Brian Miller, Campus Crusade for Christ, Charles Thaxton, Christian Leadership Ministries, Christianity Today, coconuts, Dallas, David Klinghoffer, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Faculty Commons, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, James Tour, Jon Buell, Jonathan Wells, mechanical engineering, Michael Polanyi Center, Michael Ruse, Monsters Inc., origin of life, Origins (book), Phillip E. Johnson, Philosophical Library, professors, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Robert Shapiro, Robert Sloan, Roger Olsen, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Meyer, Texas, Texas A&M, The Blind Watchmaker, They Mystery of Life's Origin, University of Washington, Waco, Walter Bradley, Washington University}

Remembering Walter Bradley (1943–2025)

_{William A. Dembski
July 23, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I’m going to describe some of my personal encounters with Walter that are not in his biography. These I hope will bring to light the man in a fresh way. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allan Bloom, Anaxagoras, Biochemical Predestination, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, Dean Kenyon, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, galvanism, Guillermo Gonzalez, horror novels, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Lord Byron, Louis Pasteur, Luigi Galvani, Mary Shelley, Michael Polanyi, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Percy Shelley, Plato, Reijer Hooykaas, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA, Roger Olsen, Shannon information, Signature in the Cell, spaghetti, specified complexity, spontaneous generation, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, uniformitarianism, Walter Bradley}

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2025

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, amino acids, chance, Charles Thaxton, earthquakes, evolution, Ewen Callaway, Francis Crick, Illustra Media, intelligence, intelligent design, No Free Lunch, primordial soup, proteins, Roger Olsen, sequence hypothesis, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, wind, Wistar Institute}

Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space

_{David Coppedge
November 20, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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They may call it evolution, but it is all about intelligent design and artificial selection, not Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Thaxton, English, Francis Crick, information theory, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Leslie Orgel, letters, Paul Davies, Roger Olsen, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Specified Complexity Made Simple: The Historical Backdrop

_{William A. Dembski
February 26, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What happened to change the fortunes of specified complexity in the mainstream scientific community? The intelligent design movement happened. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Science
Tagged
, A Leg to Stand On, Charles Thaxton, Francis Schaeffer, intelligent cause, intelligent design, interdisciplinary, Iowa State University, Michael Polanyi, Phillip E. Johnson, Roger Olsen, Stephen Meyer, The Federalist, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

Intelligent Design’s Founding Father

_{David Klinghoffer
January 30, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Science

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Emily Nordhagen Sandico describes the origins of Thaxton’s book, which had such an influence on Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, Phillip Johnson, and others. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science
Tagged
, A Leg to Stand On, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Charles Thaxton, Charles University, Czech Republic, Dallas, David Hume, DNA, Douglas Axe, England, Enlightenment, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Guillermo Gonzalez, information, information theory, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Prague, Roger Olsen, Russell Doolittle, Stephen Meyer, Texas, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton

_{Stephen C. Meyer
August 11, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science

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It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Read More ›

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Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Charles Thaxton, computer simulations, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, DNA, Eigen catastrophe, entropy, error catastrophe, evolution, intelligent design, interventions, mutation rate, natural selection, New York University, PNAS, randomness, Roger Olsen, science, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

NYU Scientists Confuse Artificial Selection with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It should be obvious: if you are controlling the mutations and selecting the outcomes, you are not doing Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, annus horribilis, Brian Miller, cells, Charles Thaxton, Colorado School of Mines, Darwinism, Dean Kenyon, experts, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Marvin Olasky, metabolism, Privileged Species, Psalms, Rice University, Roger Olsen, Science Book of the Year, scientists, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, Texas A&M, textbooks, The Miracle of the Cell, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, virtue-signaling, Walter Bradley, What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology, World Magazine, Year of the Expert}

Life’s Origin — A “Mystery” Made Accessible

_{David Klinghoffer
December 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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If you “listen to the experts,” or anyway some of the experts, cells are “little bags of garbage” and Miller-Urey is a “true simulation of prebiotic chemistry.” Read More ›

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Date
December 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", amino acids, Charles Thaxton, code, codons, Darwinian evolution, DNA, double helix, Escherichia coli, genetic code, information, intelligent design, materialists, mind, natural selection, PNAS, probability, proteins, Roger Olsen, Rutgers University, Second Law of Thermodynamics, serine, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, Walter Bradley}

Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics (Updated)

_{Science and Culture
December 2, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Read More ›