Category: Design inference
Will Illustra now make an ID film about hummingbirds?
| May 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News |
“It is difficult to describe the marvel of design found in the hummingbird without using the language of astonishment.” more
They said it: Dr Nick Matzke (late of NCSE) vs UD commenter Joe on science as it studies “the usual course of the world” applied to signs of design
| May 3, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Design inference, ID Foundations, Philosophy, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
In the course of the exchanges on Dr Matzke’s clip on what “science” says can and cannot be so regarding miracles, he has made an interesting comment, here at 15: . . . I still haven’t seen anyone present a good argument as to why we can’t just say that science is the study of… more
Mammalian visual system prompts talk of design, self-organization, in journal
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News, Self-Org. Theory |
“Our theory of universality in network self-organization explains how they could independently develop a common design.” more
Telic Thoughts: Ancestral carbon mechanism points to design
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News |
There is no reason to think that “the earliest cells were rickety assemblies whose parts were constantly malfunctioning and breaking down.”If so, the project would have ended. more
Bill Dembski: Two different concepts of what ID is: Internal vs. external teleology
| April 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference |
“What distinguishes ID is the detectability of design qua real teleology in nature. The precise nature of that teleology is logically downstream.” more
Twice as many “ID-friendly” penguins as believed?
| April 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News |
The penguins were the subject of a film that some accused of being ID-friendly. more
Antibiotic resistance is “hard-wired” into bacteria?
| April 12, 2012 | Posted by News under DCA, Design inference, News |
“Antibiotic-resistant bacteria cut off from the outside world for more than four million years have been found in a deep cave.” more
Was Anders Breivik “not-insane”?
| April 10, 2012 | Posted by DLH under Animal minds, Cosmology, Darwinism, Design inference, Ethics, Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, language, News, Philosophy, Religion, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
Other psychiatrists now find Norway massacre gunman Anders Behring Breivik ‘not insane’ – prison now possible “The experts’ main conclusion is that the accused, Anders Behring Breivik, is not considered to have been psychotic at the time of the actions on July 22, 2011,” the Oslo district court said in a statement which reopens the… more
Pressing Bill Dembski on his conception of ID
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution |
“My skepticism about common descent is not universally shared in the ID community. ” more
Molecule “carries a stamped ticket detailing its destination and form of transport”
| March 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News |
Like the difference between first class mail, and third class mail? All a big accident, right? more
Bill Dembski on why ID’s struggle is going to be long and hard
| March 16, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Culture, Darwinism, Design inference, Intelligent Design |
“I can see some liberalizing within the mainstream academy toward strict Darwinism without conceding any ground to ID.” more
Bill Dembski answers, How do we explain bad design?
| March 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Design inference, News |
Natural evil is a problem, but it is a problem for theology and not for intelligent design per se. more
Plant evolves a new function? Or was it designed?
| February 8, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News, Plants |
One way of putting it: The plant enzyme “was evolved” to do both functions at once. more
Elephant’s extra “toe”: Another “vestigial organ” bites the dust – in this case, literally
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Design inference, News |
“Over the years its purpose or lack of purpose has been debated.” more
ID Foundations, 15(a): A Testable ID Hypothesis — Front-Loading, part A (a guest-post by Genomicus)
| January 20, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Biology, Design inference, Genetics, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design |
(Series on Front-loading continues, here) As we continue the ID Foundations series, it will be necessary to reflect on a fairly wide range of topics, more than any one person can cover. So, when the opportunity came up to put Front-Loading on the table from a knowledgeable advocate of it, Genomicus, I asked him if… more
Can we distinguish human v. natural excavations?
| January 16, 2012 | Posted by DLH under Culture, Design inference, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design |
Large geometric shapes are being discovered beneath the Amazon forest. Have the discoverers evaluated their origins correctly? If so, why? Is there any way to distinguish between artifacts caused by human and extraterrestrial agents? Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World By SIMON ROMERO January 14, 2012 RIO BRANCO, Brazil… more
Biological selection must occur at the nucleotide-sequencing molecular-genetic level
| January 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Design inference, News |
“The fittest living organisms cannot be favored until they are first programmed and computed.” more
Intelligent design: The next decade
| January 10, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Design inference, Intelligent Design |
This morning we noted the 50th peer-reviewed pro-ID scientific paper published. Having been on this beat for a decade now, I can safely say that no one who is not involved can have any idea how difficult an achievement that is, in the face of a corrupt, tenured establishment that is unashamed to use outright… more
#1 of 2011 for ID community: 50th Peer-Reviewed Pro-ID Scientific Paper Published.
| January 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News |
“Collectively, this body of research is converging upon a consensus: complex biological features cannot arise by Darwinian mechanisms, but require an intelligent cause.” more
ID Foundations, 14: “Islands” vs “Continents” of complex, specific function — a pivotal issue and debate
| December 30, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Complex Specified Information, Design inference, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Irreducible Complexity |
In the current discussion on [Mis-]Representing Natural Selection, UD commenter Bruce David has posed a significant challenge: . . . it is not obvious that even with intelligence in the picture a major modification of a complex system is possible one small step at a time if there is a requirement that the system continue… more
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