1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (360+ words) If these ERVs really are just blindly introduced viral insertions in our ancestor's genomes, there's no particular reason why they should be functional, much less absolutely "essential" at a "widespread" scale in the earliest stages of human development. Yet this…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (351+ words) Introducing Ultimate Engineering: A Conversation with Stuart Burgess'Science and Culture Today Evolutionary theory predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. But as a new episode of ID the Future reveals, the latest science has discovered just the opposite " designs…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (188+ words) Yesterday I offered a defense of the fine-tuning argument. Here I will address further objections that were brought up in the Alex O'Connor interview with cosmologist Sean Carroll. Now, this objection can be dismantled by comparison. Consider a complex mechanism,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (714+ words) Our scientists and engineers have further laid the foundation for a comprehensive and actionable theory of biological design. Source Several CELS presentations described the Engineering Research Group (ERG) investigations into the design principles underlying biological adaptation. Critics of neo-Darwinism have…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (222+ words) Some examples from their database "Tessellated Materials" can help answer these questions." The authors were engaged in a classification scheme, not necessarily seeking familial relationships as in Linnaean taxonomy, but looking for a pattern classification scheme. Biology and technology, mind…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (169+ words) Conjoining science with culture, while it is the CSC's calling card, is not our invention. Probably the most consequential scientist of the past century " J. Robert Oppenheimer, who gave us the age of the atomic bomb " thought passionately and creatively about…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (91+ words) Download the podcast or listen to it here. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. The conversation appears here with the generous permission of Peter Robinson and the Hoover Institution." Always display content from YouTube No doubt, Teilhard " had " and…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (362+ words) Fine-tuning for survivability is essential for our existence and fine-tuning that facilitates discovery enhances our lives by advancing and satisfying our knowledge and curiosity. Yet another aspect of design becomes apparent within our solar system when we observe the planets…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (291+ words) In 1852, several years before'On the Origin of Species'came out, the famed biologist Herbert Spencer defended the theory of evolution and made a broadside attack against the idea of "special creation" in his essay "The Developmental Hypothesis." He'wrote:" This argument has…...