Podcast appearances and mentions of Kenneth R Miller

In this episode, Madeline chats with her friend Thomas Salerno, a freelance writer, editor, and fellow podcaster with a background in paleontology and anthropology. During their conversation, they discuss his bachelor's in anthropology from SUNY Stony Brook, his past work  at the American Museum of Natural History, his love of Bl. Nicolaus Steno, how Thomas and Madeline met via Legend Fiction, dinosaur fiction, hubris and playing God, bioethics, ungodly self-reliance, his time at Catholic boarding school, liturgy of the hours, science fiction, some prophetic words of Venerable Fulton Sheen, the Book of Revelation, walking around the same places as your heroes, the importance of challenging our biases, and so much more!During the course of their conversation, they make many references which you can explore. Some of these references include episodes 19 and 32 of this podcast, the Legend Fiction community, the Prehistoric Planet show, the Foundation series/show, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker, The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sky People by S.M. Stirling, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, the Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien, Finding Darwin's God by Kenneth R. Miller, Markmaker by Mary Jessica Woods, Humanae Generis, and Fides et Ratio.You can read more about Thomas's work and catch his own podcast episodes here.  He also has some work that you can read at Word on Fire such as these articles mentioned in the episode: the JWST piece, the pro-life piece, and the Jurassic Park piece.Feel free to like, subscribe, and share the episode! Follow us on Instagram! @sbltfpodcastDon't forget to go out there, and be a light to this world!

Area law-enforcement agencies have reported the following recent activity: Floresville police •Jan. 15, Macario J. Chapa, 24, of Kenedy was arrested at the intersection of 10th and Plum streets on an out-of-county warrant. •Jan. 15, Anthony R. Miller, 24, of San Antonio was arrested in the 1600 block of Standish Street on an out-of-county warrant. •Jan. 15, Kenneth R. Miller, 26, of Converse was arrested in the parking lot of a restaurant in the 1600 block of Standish Street and charged with speeding, displaying a fictitious license plate, and failure to maintain financial responsibility. La Vernia police •Jan. 13, Brian...Article Link

Even though it has been 162 years since Charles Darwin published his ground-breaking treatise, On the Origin of Species, many misconceptions and outright falsehoods about the theory of evolution through natural selection continue to persist. I was therefore incredibly honoured to be joined in this episode by renowned biologist, Dr. Kenneth R. Miller, one of America's foremost public defenders of evolution, to help clear up some of the confusion. For instance, I asked my guest to dispel the oft-repeated claim that evolution is “only a theory.” In his excellent book, Finding Darwin's God, Dr. Miller contends that the theory of evolution should be understood as both history and mechanism, so I asked him to elaborate upon what he meant. We further discussed another common creationist misrepresentation, namely that evolution is simply a random process that could not possibly account for the appearance of design we see throughout the natural world. I asked Dr. Miller about the evidence for evolution, which as I claimed now consists of many mountains, and not merely a single Himalaya, as it were, and he homed in on upon three major areas, namely the extensive fossil record, genetics, and the ability to date the age of the earth using radioactivity. We also discussed transitional or intermediate fossils, how evolution is a vast branching process and not a teleological one culminating in humans as the apex of some scale of nature, the difference between micro and macro evolution, often misused by creationists, and why the second law of thermodynamics definitely does not invalidate the theory of evolution. I received a short anatomy lesson about the poorly designed nature of the human eye, which is interestingly still used by creationists, drawing selectively and disingenuously from a single paragraph in On the Origin of Species, as a supposed refutation of Darwinian evolution. The last area of scientific interest we delved into is the call by some for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to incorporate epigenetics, which is an exciting new area of evolutionary biology that is expanding upon and enhancing our understanding of the mechanisms of evolution. At a few points in the discussion Dr. Miller references the relevance of evolution to the current global Covid-19 pandemic, reminding listeners that the term variants should be understood as evolution in action, while the remarkably rapid breakthroughs in developing vaccines are thanks in large measure to the flourishing field of modern genomics. Dr. Miller's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_R._Miller Kitzmiller V. Dover Area School District Trial Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District ‘Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial' documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2xyrel-2vI Twitter account for Skeptically Curious: https://twitter.com/SkepticallyCur1 Patreon page for Skeptically Curious: https://www.patreon.com/skepticallycurious

What do antibiotics, free will, and Galapagos finches have in common?  Yup, we're talking about evolution again.If you'd like to hear more listen to our four part review of Kenneth R. Miller's book Finding Darwin's God entitled, predictably, "Finding Darwin's God"- Parts 1-4.

Part four of our first book discussion. This week we discuss chapters 8-9 of "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution" by Kenneth R. Miller from Brown University. This concludes our book review.www.wadicherith.com

Part three of our first book discussion. This week we discuss chapters 6-7 of "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution" by Kenneth R. Miller from Brown University. If you would like to read along you can pick up the book and join us next week (June 18) to discuss chapters 8-9.

This week is the long-awaited part two of our first book discussion. This week we discuss chapters 3-5 of "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution" by Kenneth R. Miller from Brown University. If you would like to read along you can pick up the book and join us next weeks(June 11) to discuss chapters 6-7.

Trying something different this week by doing part one of our first book discussion. This week we discuss the first two chapters of "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution" by Kenneth R. Miller from Brown University.

Can Christians believe that people are only “physical”? Must we have “souls” in order to be saved, to have relationships with God, to be God’s image-bearers in the world? My two guests today are biologist Kenneth R. Miller (Brown University) and philosopher Rebekah Rice (Seattle Pacific University), and they argue that there are good reasons to accept some kind of Christian Naturalism or Christian Physicalism, and that in fact one can do so and remain within the orthodx Christian tradition. The Human Instinct: https://smile.amazon.com/Human-Instinct-Evolved-Reason-Consciousness/dp/1476790264/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=kenneth+miller&qid=1573441718&sr=8-2 Finding Darwin’s God: https://smile.amazon.com/Finding-Darwins-God-Scientists-Evolution/dp/0061233501/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=kenneth+miller&qid=1573441718&sr=8-1 Edited by Scott Cangemi Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch YHP Patron-only FB group: https://tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: youhavepermissionpod.com Join Dan's email list: dankochwords.com Artwork by http://sprungle.co/

I am pumped to share this episode with you. For a long time I have enjoyed the work of biologist Kenneth R. Miller and over the course of this conversation we cover a number of topics which include... How the poetry of Thomas Merton help bring Ken back to faith His role in the debates between Creation Science, Intelligence Design, and Evolution "if Augustine and Aquinas were around today, they would be evolutionists" on the craft of being a baseball umpire the nature of Biblical truth and scientific discovery stories from the legal battles over Intelligent Design the overwhelming evidence for a common ancestor how humans are unique among the natural world the failure of Sam Harris' argument on free will a sweet E.O. Wilson story on free will and its necessity for science his friendship and disagreement with Stephen Jay Gould about NOMA Ken's theory of mind and consciousness he argues against Nagel about the nature of consciousness we discuss emergence via complexity Kenneth R. Miller is Professor of Biology. He did his undergraduate work at Brown, and earned a Ph D in 1974 at the University of Colorado. He spent six years as Assistant Professor at Harvard University before returning to Brown University in 1980. His research work on cell membrane structure and function has produced more than 60 scientific papers and reviews in leading journals, including CELL, Nature, and Scientific American. You should definitely follow him on twitter and check out his visit to the Colbert Report. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am pumped to share this episode with you. For a long time I have enjoyed the work of biologist Kenneth R. Miller and over the course of this conversation we cover a number of topics which include… How the poetry of Thomas Merton help bring Ken back to faith His role in the debates… Read more about Kenneth R. Miller: How we Evolved to have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will

welcome back to the show on episode 169 this show has some updates on August plans and output a few rap songs will be coming out with choruses (Credit to R) book author interviews and content summaries coming for The Human Instinct by Kenneth R. Miller and She Has Her Mother’s Laugh by Carl Zimmer our brain … Continue reading "169: August Songs, Science Book Author Interviews, And How All Brains Are Similar" The post 169: August Songs, Science Book Author Interviews, And How All Brains Are Similar appeared first on The Armen Show.

The racial wealth gap is where past injustice compounds into present inequality. When I asked Ta-Nehisi Coates, on this show, what would prove to him that white supremacy was over in this country, he pointed to the closing of the racial wealth gap. The numbers here are startling. In 2016, the median white family in America had $171,000 in wealth. The median black family had just $17,400. Put differently, for every dollar in wealth the average white family has, the average black family has a dime. And the chasm is growing. One of the first episodes of Vox’s new Netflix show, Explained, explores the roots, realities, and future of America’s racial wealth gap. This conversation continues the discussion with one of the key voices in that episode: Mehrsa Baradaran, a law professor at the University of Georgia and author of the extraordinary book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines that create wealth in America, and the way the rhetoric of equal treatment under the law was weaponized, as soon as slavery ended, against efforts to achieve economic equality. But Baradaran’s view isn’t just historical: she’s also studied the way African Americans are disproportionately unbanked and underbanked today, and has been advising Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s efforts to do something big and surprising to solve it: building a nationwide postal banking system. The issues discussed in this episode are, I think, some of the most important facing America right now, and Baradaran’s perspective is unusual in its marriage of analytical rigor, historical analysis, real solutions, and deep compassion. This is worth listening to. Recommended books: The Human Instinct by Kenneth R. Miller Master of the Senate by Robert Caro Feel Free by Zadie Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Miller is well known for his work in debunking Intelligent Design Creationism, most notably for his testimony in the Dover Pennsylvania trial that demolished the legal strategies of the movement to have creationism taught in public school science classes. His book, Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul recounts his experiences and argues why evolution is true. Now, in his new book, Dr. Miller presents a radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will, contra scientists such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris who tell us that our most intimate actions, thoughts, and values are mere byproducts of thousands of generations of mindless adaptation. We are just one species among multitudes, and therefore no more significant than any other living creature. Brown University biology professor Miller contends that this view betrays a gross misunderstanding of evolution. Natural selection surely explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, but Miller argues that it’s not a social or cultural theory of everything. In The Human Instinct, he rejects the idea that our biological heritage means that human thought, action, and imagination are pre-determined, describing instead the trajectory that ultimately gave us reason, consciousness and free will. A proper understanding of evolution, he says, reveals humankind in its glorious uniqueness—one foot planted firmly among all of the creatures we’ve evolved alongside, and the other in the special place of self-awareness and understanding that we alone occupy in the universe.  

A radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will. Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it as bad news. Scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, and Sam Harris tell us that our most intimate actions, thoughts, and values are mere byproducts of thousands of generations of mindless adaptation. We are just one species among multitudes, and therefore no more significant than any other living creature. Now comes Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller to make the case that this view betrays a gross misunderstanding of evolution. Natural selection surely explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, but Miller argues that it’s not a social or cultural theory of everything. In The Human Instinct, he rejects the idea that our biological heritage means that human thought, action, and imagination are pre-determined, describing instead the trajectory that ultimately gave us reason, consciousness and free will. A proper understanding of evolution, he says, reveals humankind in its glorious uniqueness—one foot planted firmly among all of the creatures we’ve evolved alongside, and the other in the special place of self-awareness and understanding that we alone occupy in the universe. Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct is a moving and powerful celebration of what it means to be human. — Kenneth R. Miller is professor of biology at Brown University and the critically acclaimed bestselling author of Only a Theory, Finding Darwin’s God, and The Human Instinct. The post The Human Instinct – Ep 36 with Ken Miller appeared first on Read Learn Live Podcast.

Ep. 315 | Originally aired: April 28-30, 2018 One of the most important stories in human history is the creation story of the Hebrew bible. Its impact can still be felt today in debates over the proper role of creation and evolution in American classrooms. Kenneth Miller is a respected scientist whose published work seeks common ground between God and science. Kenneth R. Miller is Professor of Biology at Brown University. His research on cell membrane structure and function has produced more than 60 scientific papers and reviews in leading journals, including CELL, Nature, and Scientific American. Learn more. 

We talk to biologist Kenneth R. Miller about his new book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will.

"Kenneth Raymond Miller is an American cell biologist and molecular biologist who is currently Professor of Biology and Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence at Brown University." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_R._Miller I (Chris Kendall) speak with Ken Miller, Professor of Biology at Brown University to speak about, what I was told, is the single greatest piece of evidence for Evolution Theory. From what I gather, chromosome fusion happen regularly but usually not regarded as evolutionarily significant. Also of interest, Mr. Miller was not familiar with the convergent evolution claim in regards to squid bioluminescence trait that is regarded as an example of "convergent evolution". In Evolutionary Biology, does the right hand know what the left hand is doing? Hmmm... "Striking" similarity in gene sequencing can be observed in unrelated animal species, as in the case of unrelated squid that both possess the bioluminescence trait, have "strikingly similar" genetic "synteny"and are regarded as examples of convergent evolution, meaning that the similarities are not the result of ancestry yet, in the case of humans, any sequencing we share with the great apes, is regarded as highly significant. So basically the question is this, why is a given set of observations regarded as significant to make a case for a certain conclusion and yet, in another instance, comfortably accommodates the opposite conclusion? That's really the question I had for Ken, but failed to wedge it in when he launched into to his human/squid eye comparison dissertation. "In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches." https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/convergent_evolution.htm "Unless there are strong constraints, the probability of complex organs originating multiple times through similar trajectories should be vanishingly small. Here, we report that similar light-producing organs (photophores) evolved separately in two squid species, yet each organ expresses similar genes at comparable levels. Gene expression is so similar that overall expression levels alone can predict organ identity, even in separately evolved traits of squid species separated by tens of millions of years. The striking similarity of expression of hundreds of genes in distinct photophores indicates complex trait evolution may sometimes be more constrained and predictable than expected" http://www.pnas.org/content/111/44/E4736.full "In fact, the human genome is littered with pseudogenes, gene fragments, "orphaned" genes, "junk" DNA, and so many repeated copies of pointless DNA sequences that it cannot be attributed to anything that resembles intelligent design. If the DNA of a human being or any other organism resembled a carefully constructed computer program, with neatly arranged and logically structured modules, each written to fulfill a specific function, the evidence of intelligent design would be overwhelming. In fact the genome resembles nothing so much as a hodgepodge of borrowed, copied, mutated, and discarded sequences and commands that has been cobbled together by millions of years of trial and error against the relentless test of survival. It works, and it works brilliantly; not because of intelligent design, but because of the great blind power of natural selection to innovate, to test, and to discard what fails in favor of what succeeds. The organisms that remain alive today, ourselves included, are evolution's great successes." "Life's Grand Design," Technology Review 97, no. 2 (1994): 28-29, by Kenneth R. Miller "For years, the vast stretches of DNA between our 20,000 or so protein-coding genes" more than 98% of the genetic sequence inside each of our cells" was written off as "junk" DNA. Already falling out of favour in recent years, this concept will now, with Encode's work, be consigned to the history books." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/sep/05/genes-genome-junk-dna-encode

Samples in this podcast are drawn from 12 of the hour-long episodes in the audioseries "Evolutionary Catholics: Conversations at the Leading Edge of Faith." Hosted by Michael Dowd, these conversations feature 12 of the most inspiring religion-and-science leaders in Roman Catholicism — all of whom embrace the scientific evidence of a cosmos and Earth billions of years old, in which life forms evolved via natural processes. The speakers are: Joan Chittister, Ilia Delio, Linda Gibler, John Haught, Ursula King, Kenneth R. Miller, Michael Morwood, Diarmuid O'Murchu, Richard Rohr, Gloria Schaab, Mary Southard, and Gail Worcelo. The entire series can be accessed at EvolutionaryCatholics.com.