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Do the Resurrection Narratives Contradict? A Reply to Dan McClellan
McClellan recently published a 17-minute video responding to a TikTok video by my colleague, Dr. Sean McDowell, on discrepancies in the resurrection narratives. In this article, I will address points raised in this video.
New Paper Examines How the Complexity of Glycan Structures Points to Intelligent Design
A new peer-reviewed paper published by carbohydrate researcher Russell Carlson at the University of Georgia has been published in the journal BioCosmos, which explains the high informational content and complexity of glycans, and why this is best explained on the hypothesis of intelligent design rather than unguided evolutionary processes.
Early Church Persecution, and its Evidential Value
There is satisfactory evidence that many professing to be original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives in labours, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone in attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely in consequence of their belief of those accounts; and that they also submitted, from the same motives, to new rules of conduct.
When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?
A common question I get asked when framing the argument in this way has to do with the prior probability — that is, the intrinsic plausibility of the hypothesis being true before the evidence is considered.
Recurring Design Logic in Gene Regulation
A feature of biology that has struck me over the years is the phenomenon of recurring design logic, even across systems that do not appear to be related by descent. This is a feature that is quite surprising on the supposition that a mindless process is responsible for life’s origins, but is precisely what we might predict on the hypothesis that a mind played an important role.
The Cell Division Challenge to Eukaryogenesis
What makes the origins of the eukaryotic cell cycle particularly resistant to evolutionary explanations is that a wide gulf exists between the mechanism of cell division by eukaryotes and that employed by prokaryotic cells — both in terms of the protein components involved, as well as the underlying logic. There is essentially nothing in common between the two systems.
The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: An Irreducibly Complex System
Various components of the mitotic cell division apparatus are indispensable for the system to work. This makes the eukaryotic cell division irreducibly complex, rendering it resistant to explanations in terms of blind, evolutionary processes.
New Paper Challenges Evolutionary Account of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle
My new paper is out now in the journal BIO-Complexity, regarding the origins of the eukaryotic cell division cycle.
Challenges to the Evolutionary Origins of the Glycolytic Pathway
Multiple challenges confront an explanation of the glycolytic pathway in terms of unguided evolutionary mechanisms. The complexity and engineering sophistication comport much better with the hypothesis of design.