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Darwin’s Bluff: Peeling Back the Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 14, 2024}

Tucked away in Darwin’s surviving papers is a manuscript of almost 300,000 words that he continually promised to others but never completed or published.

Deconstructing Darwin: The Myth and the Man

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 12, 2024}

Harboring a secret fear that he’d become what his father said he would — a disgrace to his family — Darwin desperately sought status and recognition.

How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 10, 2024}

Almost 400 years after its discovery, the process of metamorphosis is still a thorny conundrum for evolutionary biologists.

Dallas Conference, February 17: Our Privileged Planet, 20 Years On

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 9, 2024}

Philosopher Dr. Jay Richards previews the theme of February 17's Dallas Science and Faith Conference.

Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 5, 2024}

Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals.

Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 5, 2024}

She was born the same year as Charles Darwin. Like him, she studied nature and wrote books. But while Darwin staked his life's work on the power of natural selection, she recognized the evidence of intelligent design in nature and living organisms. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid shares his profile of 19th century naturalist and children's author Margaret Gatty. Here, McDiarmid reports on Gatty's life and work within the framework of Darwin's, to show where both were similar as well as where they diverged. The result is a better understanding of 19th century Britain during a crucial chapter in the history of biology, and indeed, in the history of human ideas.

Evolution’s Demigods: Reviewing the Tour vs. Cronin Debate

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 1, 2024}

Says Brian Miller, “What a lot of origin-of-life people do is talk about natural selection as a demigod with creative agency."

Debate Review: Jim Tour vs Lee Cronin at Harvard

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 29, 2024}

In 2021, chemist Dr. Lee Cronin declared publicly that “Origin of life research is a scam.” He later said he was only joking.

A Philosopher Defends Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 24, 2024}

Peter S. Williams explains the deceptively simple test he uses to silence claims that intelligent design is not a scientific pursuit.

Sex: A Masterpiece of Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 22, 2024}

“If any of these aspects…were different or non-existent, then sexual reproduction couldn’t take place. And so you require multiple codependent sub-functions.”

Sex: Engineered for Success

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 20, 2024}

Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system?

Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 17, 2024}

Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it?

Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 10, 2024}

Jonathan Witt describes four characteristics common in all works of human genius and provides examples, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Euclid’s geometry.

Nature Reveals Not Just Design but Genius

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 8, 2024}

After studying the hallmarks of genius in humans, Witt and Wiker looked for the same characteristics in nature.

Stephen Meyer: Evidence of Mind in the Natural World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 7, 2024}

Can we scientifically detect the activity of a mind behind the universe? Philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer answers this question and more.

Stephen Meyer: Scientific Arguments for a Theistic Worldview

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 6, 2024}

Are there strong scientific arguments for theism? Is there such a thing as objective morality?

Casey Luskin on Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 3, 2024}

Intelligent design theorists have long argued against the idea that non-protein coding DNA is useless evolutionary junk.

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2023: Joe Rogan and Stephen Meyer Talk Science and Faith

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 1, 2024}

For more than three hours, Rogan asked questions about the scientific argument for the reality of God, as well as Meyer’s reasons for believing the Bible.

Jonathan McLatchie on the Gift of Hearing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 22, 2023}

“It strains credulity, to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system.”

Thanks to Optimal Design, Eyes and Brain Give a Glimpse of the Future

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 20, 2023}

Although the brain can process images at breakneck speed, there are physical limits to how fast neural impulses can travel from the eye to the brain.