The Design Debate in Biology
Things have an appearance of design, but they are not designed. It's only an illusion.
What is the Classical Darwinian point of view.
A highly improbable event, which also performs a function, is very unlikely to happen by __________.
What is chance?
Inferring to the best explanation.
What is "Multiple Competing Hypothesis"?
Documentary producer who examined the cases of numerous esteemed scientists who were expelled from the scientific community because of ID research.
Who is Ben Stein?
A theory based on scientific exploration and data, not sacred texts.
What is Intelligent Design Theory?
Process of unguided, totally undirected mutations which mimic design.
What is Natural Selection?
Doug Axe, PhD, calculates a 1:1074 chance of getting a functional ___________ vs. gibberish combos.
What is a protein?
Apply MCH reasoning to DNA digital code...what is the cause now in operation for DNA?
What is Intelligent Design?
For many evolution proponents, Darwinism seems to function like a secular religion. In the words of this Oxford biologist, "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."
Who is Richard Dawkins?
A theory that uses science to defend the literal reading of Genesis including creation and the global flood accounts.
What is Creationism?
Very incorrect scientific view of the cell in Darwin's time.
What is "red jello-like" protoplasm?
Functional protein formation requires only one kind of bond.
What is a peptide bond?
Charles Thaxton, PhD chemist put forward the idea at a 1985 conference that the __________ stored in DNA not only can't be explained by chemical, evolutionary processes, but could point to an intelligent cause.
What is information?
Quasi-science used to create a better "breed" of humanity, exterminate the old and infirm, and attempt to create a utopian society.
What is Eugenics?
An effort seeking to detect genuine design in nature but is agnostic regarding the source of the design.
What is Intelligent Design?
Scientists assumed 1-2 of these would produce life and the original cell.
What is "simple chemical reactions"?
Amino acids come in left and right sided forms called Optical Isomers. To form a protein only the _________ handed version can be used.
What is Left-handed?
2007 ENCODE Project revealed the "non-coding" portions are not "junk" but instead function like an __________________ within a computer.
What is an Operating System?
Evolutionary/Origins theory suggested by many prominent Darwinists claiming life was "seeded" on earth and left to grow and mature over billions of years
What is Directed Panspermia (done by aliens)?
Examines the detail and order in the universe and recognizes the world did not come about through random chance but was intentionally planned.
What are Intelligent Design AND Creationism?
Famous (now debunked) experiment in 1953 that used the wrong atmospheric gases and electricity to produce a few amino acids and caused lots of atheism.
What was Stanley Miller's experiment?
Chance alone, Necessity (self-organization), and a combo of these two are 3 types of ______________ processes we looked at.
What is undirected?
Bill Gates said, "_________ _________ is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any we've every created!"
What is a "human DNA"?
Three freedoms that are slowly being stripped away in America due in part to this form of scientific cancel culture.
What are the Freedoms of Speech, Assembly, and Religion?
Using the natural world to reach its conclusions, ID seeks to point out that the theory of evolution does not explain the ___________________ and that it leaves many unanswered questions.
What is the "origin of life"?