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Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Genesis

_{Jonathan Witt
January 9, 2021}

Winston Ewert discusses the mathematical foundation for why we know Mount Rushmore is designed in a way that Mount Fuji isn’t.

Behe’s New Book Dispels Malaria Evolution Fog

_{Jonathan Witt
January 6, 2021}

Evolutionists say malaria’s ability to evolve resistance to the antimalarial drug chloroquine is powerful evidence of unguided microbe-to-man evolution.

Paleontologist Buries Another Proposed Cambrian Precursor

_{Jonathan Witt
January 5, 2021}

Günter Bechly explains why the Precambrian fossil Namacalathus fails as a transitional precursor to the Cambrian explosion.

Listen: Evolution on the Edge

_{Jonathan Witt
January 3, 2021}

In an earlier book, Behe reviewed data from evolution studies of malaria parasites, HIV, and E. coli, and showed that evolutionary processes face severe limits.

Blood Clotting Remains a Mousetrap for Darwin

_{Jonathan Witt
December 22, 2020}

According to Michael Behe, his critics have managed to provide little more than hand-waving, smoke screens, and the sweeping of crucial problems under the rug.

Tour and Miller Tackle Cells as Computers, Alien Life, and More

_{Jonathan Witt
December 18, 2020}

They cover everything from how simple can a cell get and still survive and reproduce to questions of design detection and bouncing cosmologies.

Tour, Miller: Cells, and Life, from a Design Perspective

_{Jonathan Witt
December 16, 2020}

The conversation turns to the challenge and necessity of quickly evolving error-correction mechanisms in origin-of-life scenarios.

Listen: Tour and Miller on the Engines We Can’t Live Without

_{Jonathan Witt
December 14, 2020}

Also in this surprisingly accessible mix — feedback loops, physicist Jeremy England, and much more.

Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

_{Jonathan Witt
December 13, 2020}

The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power.

Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

_{Jonathan Witt
December 12, 2020}

The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe.

Darwin and the Devolution of Story

_{Jonathan Witt
December 11, 2020}

Darwinian materialism suggests that the impulse toward artistic creation is merely the human songbird attracting a mate.

Michael Behe: Battle of the Mousetraps

_{Jonathan Witt
December 9, 2020}

Behe used the common mousetrap to illustrate irreducible complexity, showing how various mechanical contrivances need all of their main parts to function.

Theistic Darwinism’s “Fully Gifted” Creation Theology Contradicts Itself, and Science

_{Jonathan Witt
September 8, 2020}

Theistic evolutionists treat God as time-bound when it suits their argument, and beyond time when it suits their argument.

Bits and Bytes at the Bottom

_{Ken Pedersen and Jonathan Witt
June 22, 2020}

A funny thing happened on the way to modern scientific materialism’s victory party.

Darwin’s Silver Chair

_{Jonathan Witt
June 10, 2020}

C. S. Lewis was an agnostic before he became a Christian, so he understood the spell of unbelief.

Behe and Swamidass Debate Evolution and Intelligent Design at Texas A&M

_{Jonathan Witt
February 26, 2020}

When Michael Behe’s slide show flashed to a close up of the gears, a murmur of astonishment rolled through the audience.

The Evolution of Neanderthal Spin

_{Jonathan Witt
November 27, 2019}

If evolutionary theory is true, there were millions of intermediate hominids between our nearest fully ape-like ancestor and ourselves.

“Unique Human Origins”: Explained

_{Jonathan Witt
November 4, 2019}

One scenario involves a first human pair created from scratch — Adam and Eve, as many traditional religious believers would have it.

Science Uprising Challenges Atheism as the “Smart” Option

_{Jonathan Witt
June 26, 2019}

I was part of the creative team behind the project. So what is the idea behind that masked hacker, anyhow?

For #GivingTuesday, Help Michael Behe Demonstrate that Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan Witt
November 22, 2018}

In the first chapter, Behe the Darwin skeptic throws a curve ball. The neo-Darwinian mechanism did create the polar bear from the brown bear, he announces.