Saving Darwin’s Soul: Does His 21st Century Fate Rest on Fighting 19th...
This week marks the publication of the Darwin book that has so far received the most advance publicity in the UK, Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins, by Adrian Desmond...
View ArticleTheos Survey: A Case of Unintelligent Design?
Andrew Sibley has drawn attention to the recent Theos survey of the UK public’s beliefs in evolution, creationism and intelligent design. Wearing my sociologist’s hat, one overriding conclusion comes...
View ArticleMessage Theory – A testable ID alternative to Darwinism – Part 1
Message Theory is a testable scientific explanation of life’s major patterns. That claim should intrigue you. If I heard such a claim, I would nearly leap across the room to demand more details; else I...
View ArticleMessage Theory – A Testable ID Alternative to Darwinism – Part 4
The unity of life — Remember that famous slogan, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” It was actually the title of a 1973 paper by evolutionary geneticist, Theodosius...
View ArticleCambridge ‘Dissent over Descent’ Lecture
My apologies for not posting more here recently. I now have a blog on my university’s website dedicated to the future of the university, where I have done a bit of posting. But mostly I have been...
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Oddities Living in the Deep Blue Sea
We all know that our planet is awash with wonderful and beautiful life forms, none more so than we find in our oceans. This photo essay from the Fox News Website provides a glimpse into the strange...
View ArticleEditing the Tape of Evolutionary History Yet Again
The late Stephen J. Gould once wrote “Replay the tape [of evolution] a million times from a Burgess [the Burgess Shale fossils]beginning, and I doubt that anything like Homo sapiens would ever evolve...
View ArticleHow were RNA gene repeats, “essential” to DNA repair, formed?
RNA replications have now been discovered to be “essential” to DNA error correction systems. If they are “essential”, how could they arrive by random mutation and “selection”? On what basis does...
View ArticleIs Craig Venter’s Synthetic Cell Really Life?
Bioethicist Gregory Kaebnick, Ph.D., has an interesting take on the recently announced synthetic cell created by a team of researchers led by J. Craig Venter at the J. Craig Venter Instititute (JVCI)....
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Are pseudogenes evidence of code libraries? (a speculative suggestion)
Intelligent Design is relatively new in its present form. Proponents often argue that there are features of biology that look like engineering, and in particular, that the programming of life, the DNA...
View ArticleGetting me an Education
Larry Moran has decided to educate me about junk DNA. I appreciate the level of detail he has provided. I am not an expert in this field. I do however have a brain and, as a physicist, a vastly...
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ID Foundations, 22: What about evolutionary trees of descent and homologies?...
As has been noted, sometimes people come to UD looking for answers to questions about what they have been taught regarding “Evolution”; typically in the context of indoctrination under the Lewontinian...
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ID Foundations 23: Dr Stephen Meyer on The Design Inference on Complex...
This lecture by Dr Stephen Meyer of Discovery Institute, with Q & A may be a good refresher and focus for thought on OoL, HT WK: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the...
View ArticleDebating Darwin and Design: Science or Creationism? (9) Fourth Response
Debating Darwin and Design A dialogue between two Christians 1. Is Intelligent Design science or ‘creationism in a cheap tuxedo’? 21st July 2014 Joshua Gidney – Fourth Response I wish to begin this...
View ArticleHow Keith’s “Bomb” Turned Into A Suicide Mission
Keith brought in an argument he claimed to be a “bomb” for ID. It turned out to be a failed suicide mission where the only person that got blown up was Keith. (Please note: I am assuming that life...
View ArticleRobustness untangles ‘Evolution’
(it’s designed to) These are some thoughts prompted by the recent article Arrival of the Fittest: Robustness and flexibility are basic design principles. We design modules so that they are robust...
View ArticleMutations Degrade Inherited Intelligence
The remarkable “powers” of evolution are now shown to degrade (aka “mutate”) the human genes essential to intelligence. Remarkably, they found that some of the same genes that influence human...
View ArticleFull Vid: DI/Denton, privileged species
Here: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Let us watch and ponder, then discuss. END Posts Copyright © 2016 Uncommon Descent. This...
View ArticleHow were RNA gene repeats, “essential” to DNA repair, formed?
RNA replications have now been discovered to be “essential” to DNA error correction systems. If they are “essential”, how could they arrive by random mutation and “selection”? On what basis does...
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Logic & first principles, 1: Analogy, Induction and the power of the...
One of the commonest objections we meet when we discuss design inferences — especially concerning the genetic code, is that a claim is “just an analogy” (with implied conclusion that analogies are weak...
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