Stephen C Myer Books and ID org

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 came across this excelent video on the fossil record

 

 

 

Dr. Douglas Axe has also an excelent book ("Undeniable") which I'm starting to read

 

Here he presents the basic ideas on the book

 

He had a promissing carrer on biology but got fired from the Lab he worked on because of his involvement on Inteligent Design ideas

 

 

 

 

Also small videos with excelent arguments:

 

 

 

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[bohemian]

This video of a lecture by Stephen Mayer is technical at times but a very good discussion of “fine tuning” both of constants and forces, but also of the initial conditions of the Universe at the Big Bang.

 

 

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There seems to be an upcoming addition to the suite of animations used by the ID Institute in support of 'Intelligent Design'.
The animations themselves are absolutely brilliant. Most are about 3 minutes in length.
The new animation will be premiered at 10 am (USA PT Time) on Sat 12 Feb 2022.
If you would like to be present, please DM me for a link to Register.
Please remember, this is an independent 'scientific' site THAT DOES spill over into non-scientific areas of belief and worship. It may not be suitable for 'new interest' or those with a developing faith to attend.

I expect in the not-to-distant future, it will be added to their YouTube channel:
 

 

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[carlos]

Thanks, Tony. The videos these people make are always awesome.

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Next video has been made public and uploaded on YouTube.
Another fine example of Intelligent Design and Irreducible Complexity.

"Untangler of Knots: The Amazing Topoisomerase Molecular Machine" YouTube:

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There is a new (7 months already) series I stumbled on today.

I have watched the first 3. They seem fun. (I would also like to point out, there is so much we already know thanks to our Organisation, which was decades ahead of the curve.)
The format seems to be aimed at Uni students imo.

Here is the promo for episode 3 which dropped this week:

Be one of the first people to watch the newest episode of the Center for Science and Culture’s popular animated series, Long Story Short. Cells can’t exist without membranes to protect them. So any explanation of the origin of life needs to explain the development of cell membranes. Some scientists claim cell membranes would have been easy to create through chemical evolution. But is this really true? In this episode of Long Story Short, dive into some of the obstacles chemical evolution would have to overcome in order to produce the first cell membranes. This is the third of several episodes about the origin of life presented as part of the Long Story Short series.

Long Story Short episodes teach science with a fast pace and a sense of humor. They are perfect for young and old alike. If you haven’t watched a Long Story Short episode before, this is your chance to try one out—and share it with your friends and family!

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Here is Episode 1:
Your Science Textbook is Wrong....

 

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Here is Episode 2:

The Scientific Problem with Chemical Evolution 

 

 

https://youtu.be/K_M23OoqFSg

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Here is Epidode 3:

Challenge to Origin of Life: Cell Membranes 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 6 dropped today. It is 18 mins long. Worth a watch.

From their channel:

"Join biochemist Michael Behe as he explores marvels of the microscopic world, including bacteria with their own navigation systems, microbes that eat plastic waste, and microscopic bugs that can shoot 60 molecular “bullets” every second. This is Episode 6 of Behe's video series “Secrets of the Cell"."
 

 

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Hope it does not have a paywall:

https://nypost.com/2021/07/17/why-god-is-still-the-best-scientific-theory-for-our-existence/

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Why God is still the best scientific theory to explain our life on Earth

By Stephen C. Meyer

July 17, 2021 8:45am

 

Earth from space with stars

Can aliens explain both the origin of life and the fine tuning?

 

Aliens are in the news again. In June, a Navy report could not rule out the possibility that “unexplained aerial phenomena” spotted in our atmosphere were visitors from outer space. In January, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed an alien spacecraft had actually swept through our solar system in 2017 — and more are coming. Loeb later doubled down, suggesting that UFOs spotted by the military could be spies sent to gather intelligence about our life on Earth. 

 

As crazy as it all sounds, scientists have long posited the possibility of aliens on our planet. In fact, Francis Crick (who along with James Watson won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of the DNA molecule) once theorized that life on Earth was “deliberately transmitted” by intelligent extra terrestrials. Far from being scorned, Crick’s “Directed panspermia” theory was presented at a conference organized by Carl Sagan in 1971 and later published as a scientific paper. ..

 

 

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Hope it does not have a paywall:

https://nypost.com/2021/07/17/why-god-is-still-the-best-scientific-theory-for-our-existence/

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Great article!

Thanks for sharing!

It didn't have a paywall for me.

 

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Looks like they might be doing the rounds of the major media outlets:

https://www.newsweek.com/how-science-stopped-backing-atheists-started-pointing-back-god-opinion-1724448

OPINION
How Science Stopped Backing Atheists and Started Pointing Back to God | Opinion
STEPHEN C. MEYER , DIRECTOR OF THE DISCOVERY INSTITUTE'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN SEATTLE
ON 7/14/22 AT 8:00 AM EDT

Headlines lately have not been encouraging for the faithful. A Gallup poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe in God has fallen to 81 percent—a drop of 10 percent over the last decade and an all-time low. This accelerating trend is especially pronounced among young adults. According to a Pew Research Center poll, 18-29 year-olds are disproportionately represented among so-called "nones" —atheists, agnostics and the religiously unaffiliated.
Pastors and other religious leaders have attributed this trend to many factors: young people being raised outside the church, an unfamiliarity with liturgy and church culture, even COVID-19.

We found another answer in our national survey to probe the underlying reasons for this growing unbelief: a misunderstanding of science...

https://www.newsweek.com/how-science-stopped-backing-atheists-started-pointing-back-god-opinion-1724448

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PHYSICS, EARTH & SPACE

James Webb Telescope Goes Live: Stephen Meyer Reports

Evolution News @DiscoveryCSC

August 2, 2022, 6:33 AM

 

On a new episode of ID the Future, radio host Michael Medved sits down with Cambridge-trained philosopher of science Stephen Meyer to hear exciting news about the newly active James Webb Space Telescope, a telescope dramatically more powerful than the already extraordinarily powerful Hubble Space Telescope. The James Webb telescope was launched by NASA last Christmas and has begun returning a stream of dramatic images. Download the podcast or listen to it here.

 

https://evolutionnews.org/2022/08/james-webb-telescope-goes-live-stephen-meyer-reports/

 

 

 

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It's sad that these intelligent minds who managed to escape atheism and believe in intelligent design end up belonging to Christianity or will end up that way, mostly. A few of them become JWs,  however. But most can't find the narrow gate. 

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New article in  a 'Christian' magazine called 'World'.

By M Behe.

It is a longish essay, but a nice read. Here are a few snippets (link at end):

 

 

SCIENCE & TECH

by Michael Behe

Post Date:

September 22, 2022

Issue Date:

October 8, 2022

 

Fearfully and wonderfully made

ESSAY 

Elegant molecular machines at the center of life belie Darwin’s theory

 

At a recent conference, I watched a computer simulation of the most important machine in the world: ATP synthase. Without it, no life can exist. In the cells of every organism on Earth, from bluebird to blue whale, from amoeba to alfalfa to Aunt Millie, this molecular machine packages energy for cells to use, like AA batteries for so many game systems.

 

No batteries, no game.

 

I sat halfway back in the room on the center aisle, amid the hundred-odd scientists and casually dressed grad students watching the colorful animated machine, the center of which was turning like a mechanical egg beater. Narrating was 81-year-old John Walker, a British scientist who has studied ATP synthase for over 40 years—fully one-quarter of the time since his countryman, the naturalist Charles Darwin, first proposed his theory of evolution in 1859.

 

Evolutionary mechanisms such as random mutation and natural selection have been assumed by most scientists and public intellectuals to account for how life arose and developed over eons without any guidance or direction—or more pointedly, with no help from God. But Darwin proposed his theory long before scientists discovered such elegant machinery as ATP synthase humming at the molecular foundation of life... 

 

Now, as ATP synthase whirred on-screen, John Walker revealed the latest science on this marvel, which in 1997 earned him the Nobel Prize in chemistry after he used state-of-the-art techniques to glimpse the outlines of its form. His audience of scientists (including me) was meeting in semi-secrecy for a conference whose theme was a specific controversial question: Did Darwinian evolution have any limitations?

 

... Yet, as Walker lectured on, many in the audience shifted impatiently in their seats. Despite the explicitly skeptical theme of the conference—does Darwin’s theory hold water?—Walker was describing only how the machine worked but explaining nothing about how it arose... 

 

Finally, during the Q&A period, a questioner asked him directly: How could a mindless Darwinian process produce such a stunning piece of work?

 

Read more:

https://wng.org/articles/fearfully-and-wonderfully-made-1663727703

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Michael Behe has released his latest video. We are truly 'wonderfully made'. How Our body responds to a cut is amazing. It speaks "Design". 

"Blood Clotting: The Body’s Emergency Response System"

YouTube - Episode 7 now online
 

 

 

See all the episodes: michaelbehe.com

From the website:
Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe

MICHAEL J. BEHE JANUARY 21, 2020 INTELLIGENT DESIGN

VIEW AT YOUTUBE

The elegance of nature: Randomly evolved or purposefully designed? Join biochemist Michael Behe as he explores the building blocks of life in Secrets of the Cell, a 5-part YouTube series focusing on complexity in nature. Discover an unseen world of genetic coding, fabulous integrated systems, and astonishing machines. Each 4-8 minute episode investigates some intriguing discovery in science — for example, micro-machines inside the cell, gears in insects, or the evolution of polar bears. Embark on a voyage of discovery, and invite your family and friends along for the ride.


Michael Behe is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University and the best-selling author of Darwin’s Black Box, The Edge of Evolution, and Darwin Devolves.


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New Book:
Your Designed Body

Product Description

Consider your body. Every day it must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. While you’re going about your daily business, your body stores, retrieves, translates, and manages software for thousands of proteins, switches, setpoints, thresholds, feedback loops, coordinate systems, counters, and timers. It disassembles thousands of different complex molecules, converts them into their building blocks, absorbs the building blocks, then reassembles them into the legions of chemicals and proteins that keep you going.

Your body also safely transports hazardous chemicals to where they’re needed, without spilling them in places where they’d do harm, and employs them as it orchestrates thousands of complex processes and movements, some nearly instantaneous. At the same time it defends itself against threats large and small, and reproduces its own parts to replace those that are wearing out. And this is only a tiny portion of what your body must do to remain alive—all without conscious input from you.

Read more here

 

 

In Your Designed Body, systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman explore this extraordinary system of systems encompassing thousands of ingenious and interdependent engineering solutions. They present a compelling case that no gradual evolutionary pathway could have achieved this, and that instead it must be the handiwork of a masterful designer-engineer.

Review

"A masterful synthesis of modern medicine and engineering, revealing a human body brimming not only with biological information and ingenious molecular machines, but also with exquisitely engineered systems and subsystems that resemble but exceed the most advanced engineering techniques of our best engineers."-Stephen C. Meyer, PhD, philosopher of science and bestselling author of Darwin's Doubt and Return of the God Hypothesis

"The machinery, integration, and control in human physiology is truly astounding. Your Designed Body provides an excellent and systematic overview of the biological engineering and does so with great insight... Evidence of design and intent are everywhere... I particularly enjoyed the way the authors tackled claims about 'botched design' as well as the implications of following the evidence to its obvious conclusion."-David Galloway, MD; former President, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; Honorary Professor of Surgery, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow; author of Design Dissected

"Your Designed Body tells the captivating story of how modern medical science reveals the engineering marvels inside our skin. It's a magnificent and much-needed accomplishment-the indispensable book on the intelligent design of the human body."-Michael Egnor, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook; former Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery; member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hydrocephalus Association; named one of New York's best doctors by New York Magazine

"A brilliant tour of the mind-boggling interactive complexity of the human body... only an intelligent agent could possibly have accommodated the millions of design constraints needed to produce a living, breathing, moving, thinking, and reproducing organism like us."-William S. Harris, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota



"A wonderful book!... As engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman wonderfully tell, the human body provides an almost inexhaustible and continually unfolding array of complex and designer-orchestrated systems that continue to be tapped for inspiration by the astute and discerning engineer."-Anthony Lyle Donaldson, PhD, founding dean and current Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Gordon and Jill Bourns College of Engineering at California Baptist University

"Your Designed Body is an excellent addition to the rapidly growing library of scientific discussions and books that show us how all aspects of the human being, from conception to death and from macroscopic to sub-microscopic, reflect incomprehensible forethought, irreducible complexity, and complex design. The authors show there is incomprehensible complexity upon complexity upon complexity within the human body. Everything is too coincidental to be a coincidence (per Yogi Berra)."-Geoffrey Simmons, MD, former Governor of the American Academy of Disaster Medicine (AADM), author of What Darwin Didn't Know
 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 5 of  "Long Story Short" series. From website:

 

The cheeky humor and goofy animation of the Long Story Short series conceal a serious point. It’s the takeaway from today’s release — “Challenge to Origin of Life: Replication” — as from previous episodes. Materialist theories of abiogenesis (life from nonlife) are dictated not by science but by a philosophical doctrine. The doctrine holds that in biological origins, no mind or purpose can have played a role. Any interpretation of the evidence must conform to the doctrine. From this imperative, origin-of-life researchers derive their theories of chemical evolution — an “RNA World,” or now an “RNA-Peptide World” — which are the targets of the new Long Story offering.

 

https://evolutionnews.org/2023/02/on-origin-of-life-new-long-story-skewers-materialist-doctrine/

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Another video dropped..

 

Watch "Origin of Life:

You Can't Trust Everything You Hear

(Long Story Short, Episode 9)" on YouTube

 

 

 

Can you trust everything you hear about the origin of life? The short answer is “No.” Many popular science expositors overstate the evidence for the natural, chemical origin of life and promote gross misinformation to the public on this topic. This video reviews popular claims made about the origin of life and shows why they are contradicted by the evidence, misleading, or flat out false.

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Michael Behe just posted Episode 8 "Secrets of the Cell" on YouTube. To quote: 

 

 

Join renowned biochemist Michael Behe as he explores the mystery of biological information in the newest episode of his series Secrets of the Cell, released on YouTube today. In “Information: The Foundation of Life,” Dr. Behe unravels the mystery of how information drives the development and operation of our cells, our teeth, our organs, and much more. 

 

The video gives special attention to what could be a new icon of intelligent design: bones. We have some 200 of them in the human body and at a casual glance the structure of one seems simple enough. Behe considers the example of a femur. There is much, much more to its growth and function than is evident from that quick glance. Says Dr. Behe, “It is immensely more complicated than you might think. In fact, many consider the femur a marvel of engineering. The coordinated three-dimensional plans clearly show foresight with an end goal of an optimized bone interconnected with an optimized system.”

 

https://youtu.be/pWZpaAIlZgQ

 

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I love this picture at the end...

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A new episode is on YouTube. 

 

It's the "Long Story Short" series. (Ep. 10 on YouTube)

"The Information Codes Inside Your Body" {12 minutes}

 

Inside your body is a massive amount of encoded information that makes your life possible. Your body also contains sophisticated computer-like hardware that reads this coded information and builds the things you need for a living system. Learn about this stunning evidence of intelligent design in the first installment of the Codes of Life mini-series produced as part of our popular Long Story Short show on YouTube.

 

{It seems to be aimed at a younger audience. )

 

https://youtu.be/FjDc6jBtJSw?si=lK9xnbmJZq3M3A0r

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Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Video: Long Story Short (Ep 11)

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Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually?

No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not
David Klinghoffer
November 7, 2023, 8:50 AM
Article is here:
https://evolutionnews.org/2023/11/couldnt-lifes-information-have-accumulated-gradually-no-and-new-long-story-explains-why-not/

Video is here:
https://youtu.be/nSZbyCqm8i4?si=zzyRmFo8ncYoflOl

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