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Exposing Professor Dave’s Playground Tactics and Citation Bluffing Blitz

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May 29, 2023
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It’s true that sometimes it can be hard to tell that serious problems remain unsolved until you drill down into the scientific details.

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A Theory of Biological Design: Steve Laufmann; February 21, 2023

Darwin Comes to Africa: The Center for Science and Culture; February 21, 2023

How Hard Are You Willing to Work to Avoid the Obvious: Steve Laufmann; February 14, 2023

Challenge to Origin of Life: Replication (with References): The Center for Science and Culture; February 14, 2023

ID the Future

Stephen Meyer: Has the West Forgotten God?

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May 31, 2023
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In today’s ID the Future philosopher Stephen Meyer revisits Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Templeton Prize speech from May 10, 1983, where Solzhenitsyn indicted the West for forgetting God. Meyer argues that Solzhenitsyn’s indictment is more timely than ever. But at the same time, there is today more scientific evidence than ever for the existence of a personal God, Meyer says, and the argument from intelligent design is a powerful means to awaken individuals to the presence of God and to renew culture. Meyer goes on to support those claims with concrete examples. Today’s episode is taken from a talk Dr. Meyer gave at the 2023 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Meyer is author of the bestselling book Return of the God Read More ›

Protein Evolution, The Waiting Times Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

_{Ann Gauger
May 26, 2023
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On this ID The Future, host Eric Anderson gets an update on the recent work of Dr. Ann Gauger, Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Dr. Gauger explains her continuing research into the limits of protein evolution, efforts that are challenging the prevailing assumptions of the role of proteins and mutations in a Darwinian account of life. She also discusses her work on the related waiting times problem, demonstrating the difficulty of Darwinian processes to account for the diversity we see in biology. In addition, Ann shares her journey into researching human origins. After being asked to evaluate the scientific case against Adam and Eve, Ann dove into population genetics to see if monogenesis - the hypothesis that all humans are descended from two first parents - was even a possibility. What she discovered may surprise you. Don't miss this review of Dr. Gauger's fascinating and important research.

A PhD Evolutionary Biologist on Why He Embraces Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 24, 2023
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On this episode, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie takes us on a deep dive into two classic examples of irreducibly complex systems - the bacterial flagellar motor and the process of DNA replication in cell division. He explains the intricacies of each process and shows why each stands up to scrutiny as a true example of irreducible complexity. Along the way, he explains why the RNA world scenario isn't likely to be the answer to irreducible complexity that materialists are looking for. And near the end, be sure to listen to McLatchie explain the "likelihood ratio"of the evidence for irreducible complexity, a top-heavy ratio he says strongly supports a design hypothesis. This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview.

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Faith and Science in the Age of Secularization

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Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture is pleased to announce a co-sponsored event taking place in Krakow, Poland featuring Senior Fellows Günter Bechly, Michael Behe, Richard Sternberg, and Guillermo Gonzalez among other speakers. Read below for a description from the conference organizers. The Polish Senate has declared 2023 the year of Nicolaus Copernicus, one of the most famous astronomers of all time. Copernicus, like other founders of modern science such as Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler, was a man of faith and repeatedly emphasised that scientific observation of the world leads to a deeper knowledge of its Creator and Author. For them, the biblical Christian faith was not an obstacle to research and groundbreaking discoveries, but rather an …

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Michael Behe and Richard Sternberg to Defend Intelligent Design in Live Debate

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Michael Behe, professor of biological sciences and Lehigh University, and Richard Sternberg, evolutionary biologist, will be taking part in a debate with Michael Ruse and Malgorzata Moczydlowska-Vidal over whether intelligent design is just an illusion or indeed a reality. Our friends at the En Arche Foundation will be organizing this event and have described it in further detail below: Intelligent Design in Nature: Illusion or Reality? The answer to this question has long puzzled scientists. In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which indicated that the entire living world is the result of a purely naturalistic process of evolution by means of natural selection operating on random mutation. Darwin’s opinion that design in nature is only apparent …

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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

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The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during the past century. The program is named after celebrated British writer C.S. Lewis, a perceptive critic of both scientism and technocracy in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength. Topics to be addressed include the history of science, the relationship between faith and science, the rise of scientific materialism, the debate over Darwinian theory and intelligent design, evolutionary conceptions of ethics, science and economics, science and criminal justice, stem cell research and abortion, eugenics, family life and sexuality, ecology and animal rights, climate …

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Exposing Professor Dave’s Playground Tactics and Citation Bluffing Blitz

Model Cell Visualized as a Compact Factory

Protein Evolution, the Waiting-Time Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

Breaking ChatGPT: Its Inability to Find Patterns in Numerical Sequences

Film Festival 2023 — “The Origin of Life”

Exposing Professor Dave’s Playground Tactics and Citation Bluffing Blitz

Video

A Theory of Biological Design

Darwin Comes to Africa

How Hard Are You Willing to Work to Avoid the Obvious

Challenge to Origin of Life: Replication (with References)

ID the Future

Stephen Meyer: Has the West Forgotten God?

Protein Evolution, The Waiting Times Problem, and the Intriguing Possibility of Two First Parents

A PhD Evolutionary Biologist on Why He Embraces Intelligent Design

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Faith and Science in the Age of Secularization

Michael Behe and Richard Sternberg to Defend Intelligent Design in Live Debate

C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

Conference on Engineering in Living Systems