Author: Casey Luskin
Big Announcement, and Reflections on a Great Decade
With mixed sadness and excitement, I write this to announce that I am leaving Discovery Institute and moving on to a new adventure.
#2 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Hominid Hype Over a Species of Unclear Evolutionary Importance
So far, Homo naledi reminds me of other hominin fossils whose “transitional” or “ancestral” status ultimately went belly up.
Peer-Reviewed Paper Successfully Measures Specified Complexity in Computer Images
“Is information being created when we snap a picture of Niagara Falls?”
#4 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Fear of Intelligent Design Prevents Some Biologists from Accepting ENCODE
In Nature, Philip Ball acknowledges an “anxiety that admitting any uncertainty about the mechanisms of evolution will be exploited.”
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Paper Develops New Ways of Measuring Complex and Specified Information in Life
The “Game of Life” is a computer simulation that’s meant to mimic living systems.
#6 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Peer-Reviewed Paper Reveals Darwin’s Unavoidable Catch-22 Problem
Before evolving new features, organisms would be swamped by genetic junk.
Merry Christmas! Here Is #8 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Fighting Cancer with Intelligent Design
Here is a recent letter to the editor in the New York Times, by Dr. M. William Audeh at UCLA School of Medicine.
Peer-Reviewed Article on Transposable Elements Cites “Irreducible Complexity” and Other “Teleologic” Factors
Plant geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard L�nnig argues that irreducibly complex structures may defy explanation by TEs or other Darwinian factors.
#9 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Octopus Genome Is a Big Problem for Darwinism
New genomes of different types of organisms are being sequenced and published on a regular basis.
#10 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Researcher Is Caught in a Wonderful Freudian Slip on Intelligent Design
Here is a video of a lecture, delivered last year at Case Western University, by University of Akron origin-of-life researcher Nita Sahai.