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Intelligent Design

A collection of 15 posts

Did God Give You Kidney Stones?

I would like to introduce you to Matthew Sabatine who will contribute a few pieces that can also be found on his own blog - details below. Over to him: DNA is often given supernatural attributes and its uniqueness is often hard to separate from God as an origin. I

Creationist Argument Refuted: Biological Cells as Complex Machines

We have had a good insight into the workings of creationists from the last post. Here is the core foundation to Angelo's argument that I would like to take to task today: 1. It is known that complex machines and factories are intelligently designed 2. Biological cells are

Paley's Watchmaker and Arguing with Creationists

Last night, I did something I promised I wouldn't do again. I stayed up until past 2 o'clock in the morning arguing with creationists on Facebook. Originally, I just thought they were normal theists. I don't know how I "know" him, but

Origins of Life

My old blogging compadre, Smilodon's Retreat, recently chipped in on some abiogenesis chat on a few threads I posted. He has kindly let me repost an old piece of his that should have some relevance. It can be found in original for here at his home at SIN.

Abiogenesis: An Unsolved Mystery Is Not Evidence of a Creator

Logic of Science, which looks like a really interesting blog over here, gave me permission to repost this good synopsis of theists' approach to abiogenesis in the context of the sort of Goddidit Argument from Ignorance we so often see, and have seen here from some commenters. Here is

Humans as the Epitome of Design

The idea that humanity is the epitome of design comes from the notion that God designed us, and given his OmniPowers, his design skills will be awesome (perfect, even). The perfect designed designs perfectly. God designed us, and so there must be some quality design going on. But we are

The Creator On Trial – Part 4

The Chapter 4 interviewee is Stephen Meyer, one of the founders of the Discovery Institute. Meyer states, “If it’s true that there’s a beginning to the universe…then this implies a cause that transcends the universe.” He continues, “To get life going in the first place would have

Why Specificity In Intelligent Design Is Useless - Guest Post by Smilodon's Retreat

Here is a guest post from a friend of mine from my days of blogging at the Skeptic Ink Network. I thought it would be apt given the huge discussion going on here, and some other discussions involving evolution and Creationism here at ATP. Thanks to Smilodon's Retreat

Irreducible Complexity Cut Down to Size

Good stuff: http://youtu.be/W96AJ0ChboU

Andreas Schueler

Quote of the Day - Andreas Schueler (I love this one)

Good ole Andy. Always says sensible stuff. Well, this one pops up fairly often in conversations with IDers. Andy uses it to good effect. I thought I would repeat it here as a foil to anybody who asserts that Intelligent Design is any sort of proper theory, with any sort

counter-apologetics

The 'Why I am a Christian' series - Randal Rauser

As mentioned in my last post, I was graciously asked by Randal Rauser on his blog recently to provide a synopsis of a few paragraphs to run in his series “Why I am an atheist” (or not a Christian. The series has been interesting and has elicited testimonies from Justin Schieber, Counter Apologist, J

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Quote of the Day: Daydreamer1

So on the second post involving the infamous $10,000 bet about nested hierarchies in evolution, regular erudite commenter Daydreamer1 brought up some really good points about design, but not from a biological standpoint. With intelligent design theories, we often fail to look at them in contexts out

Intelligent Design is Creationism, just not Biblical (or Young Earth) Creationism

In their FAQ, the Discovery Institute write in response to the question "Is intelligent design theory the same as creationism?": "No. Intelligent design theory is simply an effort to empirically detect whether the "apparent design" in nature acknowledged by virtually all biologists is genuine d

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The Predictive Power of Evolution

I have been reading the first chapter of Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish recently and it really struck me again how strong, persuasive nay indomitable, the predictive powers of evolution are. The simple idea that a paleontologist can think that the first fish fossils were found at time A and the fir

Bloody awesome - rap and evolution

Some time ago, Robin Ince and some other comedians and skeptical minds came together to produce "9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People", a skeptical comedy and science carol service at Christmas. It is now a more regular fixture. The whole show is great, but the absolute highlight