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How Motor Proteins Power Eukaryotic Cell Division

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 22, 2025
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Could the components of the eukaryotic cell division process have arisen through a gradual, unguided process?

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C.S. Lewis’s Challenge to Scientocracy in Cambridge and Beyond: John G. West; January 6, 2025; Intelligent Design

Fossil Explosions in the History of Life: Paleontologist Günter Bechly: Günter Bechly; December 16, 2024; Intelligent Design

Return of the God Hypothesis in Cambridge with Stephen Meyer: Stephen C. Meyer; December 12, 2024; Intelligent Design

The Deniable Darwin: David Berlinski and Stephen Meyer in Cambridge, UK.: Stephen C. Meyer; December 9, 2024; Intelligent Design

ID the Future

McLatchie: How Motor Proteins Power Eukaryotic Cell Division

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 20, 2025
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Could the components of the eukaryotic cell division process have arisen through a gradual, unguided process? On this ID The Future, Dr. Jonathan McLatchie casts light on the unlikelihood of this proposition as he continues a four-episode series with host Andrew McDiarmid on the intelligent design and irreducible complexity of eukaryotic cell division. In this segment, McLatchie dives into some of the key molecular machinery responsible for the success of mitosis: the mitotic spindle and the motor proteins that aid in its assembly and function, explaining why their origin is beyond the reach of a Darwinian process.

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

_{Günter Bechly
January 17, 2025
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We are mourning the recent loss of our friend and colleague Günter Bechly. Gunter was a world-class paleontologist and an inspiration to many for his learned insight into the fossil record and his brave rejection of Darwinian dogma. Today we’re sharing the second half of a two-part interview with Dr. Bechly originally recorded in 2018 with host Sarah Chaffee. You’ve likely heard of the Cambrian Explosion of animal life. But what about all the other geologically sudden explosions of biodiversity in the history of life on Earth? Dr. Bechly is co-author (with Stephen C. Meyer) of the chapter titled “The Fossil Record and Universal Common Ancestry” in the book Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique. In this part of the …

Challenging Darwinian Evolution: A Medical Doctor’s Insights

_{Uditha Jayatunga
January 15, 2025
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On this ID The Future, host Casey Luskin concludes a two-part conversation with Dr. Uditha Jayatunga, a medical doctor and consultant in rehabilitation medicine in the UK, about the challenges that biological complexity poses to evolutionary theory. Their chat is a helpful refresher on some of the biggest challenges to a Darwinian explanation for the origin and development of life on Earth. In Part 2, Dr. Jayatunga provides more examples of purposeful complexity from the animal world and unpacks the power and complexity of the human brain as evidence for intelligent design. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation.

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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

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The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences will prepare participants to make research contributions advancing the growing science of intelligent design (ID). The seminar will explore cutting-edge ID work in fields such as molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology, developmental biology, paleontology, computational biology, ID-theoretic mathematics, cosmology, physics, and the history and philosophy of science. The seminar will include presentations on the application of intelligent design to laboratory research as well as frank treatment of the academic realities that ID researchers confront in graduate school and beyond, and strategies for dealing with them. Although the primary focus of the seminar is science, there also will be discussion on worldview …

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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

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The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during the past century. The program is named after celebrated British writer C.S. Lewis, a perceptive critic of both scientism and technocracy in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength. Topics to be addressed include the history of science, the relationship between faith and science, the rise of scientific materialism, the debate over Darwinian theory and intelligent design, evolutionary conceptions of ethics, science and economics, science and criminal justice, stem cell research and abortion, eugenics, family life and sexuality, ecology and animal rights, climate …

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International Seminar on Intelligent Design

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Historically, the Summer Seminar program organized by the Center for Science & Culture has included two seminars offered concurrently: the Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, designed for students and professionals in the natural sciences and the history and philosophy of science, and the C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, designed primarily for students and professionals in the humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. In the past, we have held these programs in person and participants have joined us from all over the world. Due to the volatility and uncertainty of international travel, however, we have decided to reserve the above seminars for U.S. participants and instead offer a third program combining both tracks described …

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News

How Motor Proteins Power Eukaryotic Cell Division

Intelligent Design in the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

This Close: Almost Embracing Sanctity of Life

Günter Bechly on Fossils and Common Descent

Video

C.S. Lewis’s Challenge to Scientocracy in Cambridge and Beyond

Fossil Explosions in the History of Life: Paleontologist Günter Bechly

Return of the God Hypothesis in Cambridge with Stephen Meyer

The Deniable Darwin: David Berlinski and Stephen Meyer in Cambridge, UK.

ID the Future

McLatchie: How Motor Proteins Power Eukaryotic Cell Division

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

Challenging Darwinian Evolution: A Medical Doctor’s Insights

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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

International Seminar on Intelligent Design

Dallas Conference on Science & Faith