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		<title>Explaining Cosmological Bylaws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Davies wrote Stephen Hawking&#039;s big bang gaps The laws that explain the universe&#039;s birth are less comprehensive than Stephen Hawking suggests. The article is published at The Guardian site. Davies starts by noting a truth which can be biblically sourced as well as sourced from cosmology namely, that time began with the advent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwinian Inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[9/11 prompted Richard Dawkins and others to bemoan the harmful effects of religion. One of those was alleged to be the tendency for &#034;religious wars.&#034; Of course the Crusades have been mentioned as quintessential examples. Over time this blogger and many commenters at Telic Thoughts posted historic examples of nations being led into war by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Issue of Behe&#039;s Edge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his book, The Edge of Evolution, Michael Behe offers a couple of arguments trying to establish exactly how much neo-Darwinian evolution can accomplish. In his second argument, in chapter 7, &#034;The Two Binding-Sites Rule&#034;, he concludes &#8230;complexes of just three or more different proteins are beyond the edge of evolution. They are lost in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://telicthoughts.com/the-real-issue-of-behes-edge/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Barr/Michael Behe Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished watching the debate between physicist Stephen Barr and biochemist Michael Behe, which I thought was very good, with both of them making very good points. The one point of Barr&#039;s that I thought Behe let slip by was his argument of an infinite regress of intelligent natural designers. If it was time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://telicthoughts.com/stephen-barrmichael-behe-debate/</link>
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		<title>Slick Talking Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Gilson wrote The Evolutionists&#039; Otherwise Practical Promiscuity at Thinking Christian. This is better than a freshly brewed cup of morning coffee. Sex, rattlesnakes and Nick Matzke (comment section) all in one post. Tom begins: Evolution—the naturalistic kind—is dangerous. I’ve never seen that danger exposed so clearly as in Jesse Bering’s article today at Scientific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://telicthoughts.com/slick-talking-evolution/</link>
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		<title>The Evolution of Naturalism and Scientism Toward Authoritarianism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philip Pettit, Richard Sylvan, and Jean Norman on Naturalism appears at the Keith Burgess-Jackson blog. The author notes that naturalism &#034;is a philosophical doctrine about science.&#034; He also observes scientific limits with respect to empirical inferences about broader philosophical and religious issues. While believers in naturalism will acknowledge the distinction between it and science, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://telicthoughts.com/the-evolution-of-naturalism-and-scientism-toward-authoritarianism/</link>
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		<title>Testing the Devolvability of the Flagellum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is been observed that there is significant homology between bacterial flagella and T3SSs. Pallen and Matzke have proposed that both evolved from &#034;a common, but simpler, ancestral secretion system.&#034; While others have argued that the T3SS developed from the bacterial flagellum. What is interesting is that philosopher and ID critic Robert Pennock offered an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://telicthoughts.com/testing-the-devolvability-of-the-flagellum/</link>
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		<title>The Origin and Diversification of Proteins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An ongoing exchange involving Matt, John, Eric and Olegt led me to post this: Stylus: A System for Evolutionary Experimentation Based on a Protein/Proteome Model with Non-Arbitrary Functional Constraints The authors are Douglas D. Axe, Brendan W. Dixon and Philip Lu. It is published in PLoS ONE. The abstract: The study of protein evolution is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://telicthoughts.com/the-origin-and-diversification-of-proteins/</link>
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		<title>Open Thread: Dog Days of Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Credit: bigfoto.com http://www.bigfoto.com/]]></description>
		<link>http://telicthoughts.com/open-thread-dog-days-of-summer/</link>
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		<title>Rational inferences from unreasonable success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Heddle wrote The Unreasonable Success of Physics at his site He Lives. From the entry: If you consider all the talking points in ID&#8211;irreducible complexity, privileged planet, cosmological fine-tuning&#8211;some of which I find useless (irreducible complexity) and some of which I find interesting (the apparent sensitivity of life to the values of constants) no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://telicthoughts.com/rational-inferences-from-unreasonable-success/</link>
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