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June 10, 2015

Introducing the Curious Caddisfly

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Photo by Waldemarpaetz [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

This past weekend Seattle enjoyed gorgeous weather, and my wife and I took a kid from our church hiking near a local creek. Along the way, we stopped multiple times to examine the creek, and found strange arthropod-like creatures that seemed to live inside hard cylindrical shells that almost perfectly matched the color of the surrounding rock and gravel in the creek bed. We observed hundreds, if not thousands, of these strange cyl...

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Published on June 10, 2015 03:57

June 9, 2015

Listen: What Makes Intelligent Design Scientific?

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On an episode of ID the Future, Dr. Brian Mattson of Dead Reckoning.tv discusses intelligent design with Casey Luskin.

Luskin answers the question, "Is intelligent design really science?" by analyzing the design argument for proteins, taking listeners through the observation, hypothesis, experiment, and conclusion steps of the scientific method. Watch the full interview at the Dead Reckoning YouTube channel.

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Published on June 09, 2015 16:02

Colombia Imposes Euthanasia Medical Martyrdom

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Doctors are increasingly under threat of being forced to kill or get out of medicine. I call this "medical martyrdom" -- that is, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. are forced to choose between engaging (or being complicit) in life-terminating acts such as euthanasia or abortion and losing their careers.

It is naked authoritarianism that forces doctors to violate the Hippocratic Oath. It's the law in Quebec already, and soon will almost surely be so throughout Canada.

The Dutch Medical Asso...

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Published on June 09, 2015 12:09

Fly Now; Swim Later

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Illustra's documentary Flight: The Genius of Birds came out two years ago, but the team behind the film has not been idle in the meantime. More about their latest project in a minute. First, here are several new discoveries that advance the argument for design in birds.

The Alula

There's an animation in Flight about the alula, a bone with specialized feathers on the leading edge of the bird's wing. This structure "alters the flow of turbulent air over the wing," providing for a controlled de...

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Published on June 09, 2015 05:24

June 8, 2015

Science Untethered from Evidence

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Biology largely retains its faith in the unguided Darwinian mechanism, despite mounting evidence against its power to generate complex life forms. Is it any wonder that this insouciance would rub off on neighboring fields, with offices just a floor above or below in the Science Building?

No, it's not a wonder. Not at all! Everyone who has raised kids can confirm this: If your child spends too much time with someone else's kid who's got bad character traits, those are likely to influence your...

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Published on June 08, 2015 15:38

It's Here, and It's Free: The New Discussion Guide to Darwin's Doubt!

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Summer is upon us. If you're just looking for some inconsequential beach reading to flip through half-asleep as you soak up the rays, it's probably not Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design that's for you. On the other hand, Stephen Meyer's national bestseller deals authoritatively with an ultimate question -- whether the history of life bears positive evidence of purpose and design.

Or should that be the ultimate question?

Yet we don't know...

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Published on June 08, 2015 13:10

Understanding Cardiovascular Function: Sodium Control as an Irreducibly Complex System

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Editor's note: Physicians have a special place among advocates of intelligent design. More than evolutionary biologists, they are familiar with the challenges of maintaining a functioning complex system, the human body. With that in mind, Evolution News & Views presents this series, "The Designed Body." Dr. Glicksman practices palliative medicine for a hospice organization.

the-designed-body4.jpgAs we saw in the last article in this series, sodium (Na) is vital for life. When table salt (NaCl) dissolves in the b...

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Published on June 08, 2015 03:05

June 7, 2015

Listen: Eric Anderson on Probability and Design

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On another episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin talks with Eric Anderson, who has been involved in the intelligent design debate for over a decade.

Anderson's primary focus is on analyzing the logical and rhetorical bases of arguments to help people understand strengths, weaknesses, and underlying assumptions of arguments made in the evolution debate.

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Published on June 07, 2015 13:15

June 6, 2015

Listen: Has Science Shown that We're Related to Apes?

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On an episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin shows how the human fossil record contradicts the expectations of neo-Darwinian evolution.

Luskin takes a close look at the technical literature surrounding human origins and explains why the evidence does not, despite common claims to the contrary, indicate that humans evolved from ape-like precursors.

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Published on June 06, 2015 04:20

June 5, 2015

Travels with Stephen Meyer: Letter from Minneapolis

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I'm in Minneapolis, MN, today with Stephen Meyer who spoke to an enthusiastic gathering of about 350 people here this morning. The breakfast event, Straight Talk, was sponsored by Search Ministries, led by former Minnesota Vikings linebacker Jeff Siemon.

The group, mainly local business and organization leaders, came to hear Meyer address issues of science and faith, focusing on how the evidence of cosmology and biology point away from a materialist account of our origins and to the need fo...

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Published on June 05, 2015 16:11

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