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Eighteen peer-reviewed scientific publications that support intelligent design

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The list of eighteen papers dated 2000 or later that support ID theory is here. (H/T Apologetics 315)

Here are some from the last two years:

  • Michael J. Behe, ‘Experimental Evolution, Loss-Of-Function Mutations and “The First Rule Of Adaptive Evolution”’, The Quarterly Review Of Biology, Volume 85, No. 4, December 2010
  • A.C. McIntosh, ‘Information and Entropy — Top-Down or Bottom-Up Development in Living Systems?,’ International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, Vol. 4(4):351-385 (2009)
  • William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II, ‘Bernoulli’s Principle of Insufficient Reason and Conservation of Information in Computer Search’, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Antonio, Texas (October 2009): 2647–2652
  • William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II, ‘Conservation of Information in Search: Measuring the Cost of Success,’ IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics A, Systems & Humans, Vol. 39 (5):1051-1061 (September, 2009)
  • William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II, ‘The Search for a Search: Measuring the Information Cost of Higher Level Search,’ Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.14, No.5, 2010, pp. 475-486
  • Winston Ewert, George Montañez, William A. Dembski, Robert J. Marks II, ‘Efficient Per Query Information Extraction from a Hamming Oracle,’ Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, IEEE, University of Texas at Tyler, March 7-9, 2010, pp.290-297
  • Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II, ‘Evolutionary Synthesis of Nand Logic: Dissecting a Digital Organism,’ Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. San Antonio, TX, USA – October 2009, pp. 3047-3053
  • Montañez G, Ewert W, Dembski WA, Marks II RJ (2010), ‘A vivisection of the ev computer organism: Identifying sources of active information’, BIO-Complexity 2010(3):1-6. doi:10.5048/BIO-C.2010.3

The blog post on ID.Plus has links to all the papers.

I did not see them mentioning Ann Gauger’s recent paper I blogged about a while back, as well as Doug Axe’s recent paper that I blogged about a while back.

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Animal rights activists oppose research that can save millions of lives

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It is an axiom of my profession (software engineering) that “there is no silver bullet”. Every design decision represents a compromise – a trade-off – between two competing goals. As someone who loves animals very much, I think that it is important that my readers understand the benefit that we get when we allow medical researchers to experiment on animals to develop new cures.

The story is here. (H/T Secondhand Smoke via ECM)

Excerpt:

A new malaria vaccine has been shown to provide 100% protection in mice. If it can approach that level in people, it could slash the toll from one of the world’s worst scourges, according to Stefan Kappe of Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI). “We’re shooting for 90%-plus protection,” said Kappe, who is the leader of the international collaboration behind the vaccine. “I am extremely optimistic this will work. The initial trials on Kappe’s vaccine are tentatively scheduled to start in January at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval is required.

Either we are going to save many human lives or save a few animal lives. It’s that simple. We cannot do both.