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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
February 11, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blind chance, Bruce Alberts, defining science, demarcation criteria, Epicureans, evolution, experimental science, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, Michael Ruse, Müller cells, Nathan Lents, National Academy of Sciences, naturalism, New York Times, Oregon State University, retina, scientific method, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Sisyphus, Stoics, teleology}

Is Intelligent Design a Science Stopper?

_{Cornelius Hunter
February 11, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Consider a box with an internal divider such that the box is divided into two separate compartments, A and B. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, blind natural forces, Casey Luskin, convergent evolution, Eric Cassell, evolution, genetic changes, ID the Future, insects, intelligent design, No Free Lunch theorems, podcast, purpose, spider silk, spiders, teleology, William A. Dembski}

Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
January 3, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors? Read More ›

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post

Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, chewing, common descent, Epicurus, evolution, evolutionists, falsifiability, flat tire, Imre Lakatos, intelligent design, organs, predictions, teeth, teleology, testability}

Ultra-Conserved Elements: New Paper, Same Old Results

_{Cornelius Hunter
December 2, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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UCEs are conserved structures that are not functionally constrained. Yet there is not so much as a hint of a problem for evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 23, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromosomes, DNA, females, genes, genome, intelligent design, males, nucleus, proteins, RNA, sex chromosomes, teleology}

New Studies Reveal the Exquisite Designs of the Nucleus and its DNA

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 23, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You may have heard that all the DNA in your body, if stretched out, could reach to the Sun and back more than 70 times. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", bioinformatics, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, junk DNA, Nathan Lents, optimality, pelvis, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia}

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

_{Brian Miller
August 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, evolution, Georges Cuvier, intelligent design, materialism, MIT Press, paleontologists, somatic cells, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, Systems Biology, teleology}

The Return of Teleology to Biology

_{Brian Miller
August 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

_{Michael Flannery
April 28, 2021

Evolution

5}

Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, atomists, bees, Charles Darwin, dinosaurs, evolution, French Revolution, Georges Cuvier, giraffe’s neck, J.B.S. Haldane, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, paleontologists, Plato, punctuated equilibrium, scientific materialism, Scott Turner, tautology, teleology, vitalism}

Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 16, 2021

Biology, Evolution

6}

The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning. Read More ›

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post

Date
April 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cell biology, mRNA, protein folding, proteins, purpose, Quebec, ribosomes, teleology, textbooks, Twitter}

A Tweet Representing the Core Challenge We Face

_{Science & Culture
April 12, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Christian Landry is the Principal Investigator of a lab at Laval University in Quebec, doing really interesting work on cellular networks. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 6, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, common sense, creationists, Darwin-skeptics, evolution, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, misrepresentation, scientists, teleology}

Why Do Critics Misrepresent Intelligent Design?

_{Casey Luskin
February 6, 2021

Intelligent Design

3}

I will close by revisiting the question of why people doubt Darwin and reject evolution — something discussed in my first post on this paper. Read More ›