Year: 2020

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Lophotrochozoa, macro-organisms, metazoan animals, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, stem mollusk, Yilingia spiciformis}

#2 Story of 2020: Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

_{Günter Bechly
December 31, 2020

Evolution

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None of the Cambrian animal phyla is represented in the Ediacaran fossil record. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, acoustic waves, Basic Books, chemical networks, early Earth, electricity, energy converter, entropy, experimental data, fluctuation theorems, formaldehyde, free energy, hydrothermal vents, information, Jeremy England, magnetic field, minimally complex cell, natural engine, racing car, speakers, spin glass, theory, Viktor Frankl, waveguide, wavelengths}

#3 Story of 2020: On the Origin of Life, My Response to Jeremy England

_{Brian Miller
December 30, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Clearly, the questions he and I have discussed are not only of scientific or academic interest, but instead go to the root of life’s meaning and purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 29, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemist, common cold, coronavirus, COVID-19, DNA, Ebola, epidemic, evolution, genetic information, HIV, human genome, Immune System, intelligent design, MERS, molecular machines, mutations, philosopher, protein coat, proteins, receptor, RNA, SARS, skeleton key, virosphere, viruses}

#4 Story of 2020: Evolution, Design, and COVID-19

_{Michael Behe
December 29, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The waves may be huge and the surface roiling, but the deeper waters continue as they always have, essentially undisturbed. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
December 28, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, 2019-nCoV, body plans, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, Design Inference, disease, DNA, Edward Jenner, epidemic, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic engineers, Ignác Semmelweis, intelligent design, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, living cell, macroevolution, MERS-CoV, Michael Dini, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, molecular biology, mutations, natural selection, Nature Medicine, New York Post, On the Origin of Species, organs, oxygen, pandemic, quarantine, RNA, SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, smallpox, species, Theodosius Dobzhansky, viruses, World Health Organization, Wuhan}

#5 Story of 2020: Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

_{Jonathan Wells
December 28, 2020

Medicine

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The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 27, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, “Learning in War-Time”, Adolf Hitler, Anglo-Irish writers, anxiety, Belfast, bleach, Boxen, C.S. Lewis, Castlereagh Hills, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cherry blossoms, churches, coronavirus, Europe, fear, grocery stores, gyms, hand sanitizer, isolation, Letters of C.S. Lewis, Marion Wade Center, movie theaters, Nazis, Northern Ireland, pandemic, restaurants, rubbing alcohol, Seattle, The Weight of Glory, toilet paper, tuberculosis, University of Washington, W.H. Lewis, war, Wheaton College, World War I, World War II, worry}

#6 Story of 2020: Amid a Pandemic, Wisdom from C. S. Lewis

_{John G. West
December 27, 2020

Faith & Science

8}

Lewis's advice seems eerily applicable to our own situation, just substitute “pandemic” for “war.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 26, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, anti-science, complexity theory, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, evolution, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, Nature (journal), Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, scientists, skepticism, symbiosis, textbooks}

#7 Story of 2020: Darwin Is on the Roof

_{David Klinghoffer
December 26, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution

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Books by Behe, and other ID theorists doing an independent of audit of evolutionary thinking, find devastating faults in the theory. Read More ›

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Author
Kelley J. Unger

Date
December 25, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute, Foresight (book), Irreducible Complexity, Marcos Eberlin, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, purpose, Summer Seminars, United Kingdom, YouTube videos}

Reuben’s Story — A Light in Troubled Times

_{Kelley J. Unger
December 25, 2020

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

4}

"Methodological naturalism is a very depressing thing to be told is the truth," says an 18-year-old correspondent. "Your work may have saved my life." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Alexander Flemming, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, atheism, biological information, Charles Darwin, Christianity, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Edward Jenner, emergency room, epidemiology, evolution, fireman, Girolamo Fracastoro, Harvard University, hazmat suit, housekeepers, ICU, Ignaz Semmelweis, John Snow, Jonas Salk, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, narrative gloss, neurosurgeon, nurses, pagans, pandemic, Paul Ehrlich, plague, Purell, Robert Koch, Rodney Stark, Shop Rite, Spencer Wells, stock boys, Thomas Sydenham, unintelligent processes}

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2020: Upstairs into the Plague

_{Michael Egnor
December 25, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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Epidemiology, to which Darwinism is a “narrative gloss,” is an old and vigorous science. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 24, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abortion, adult home care, Africans, brain surgery, chemotherapy, despair, DSHS, friendship, government aid, hematoma, homeless shelter, hospital, immigrants, Medicaid, pregnancy, racial hierarchy, Racism, rape, scientific racism, Section 8, subsidized housing, trust, WIC}

#9 Story of 2020: An Antidote to Despair

_{Ann Gauger
December 24, 2020

Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science

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I am a biologist, a worker in a field with a sorrowful history of categorizing human beings by race. Read More ›

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Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, calcium, cobalt, Communications Earth & Environment, Design of Life, enzymes, Flight: The Genius of Birds, Freeman Dyson, Freshwater, Geophysical Research Letters, glaciers, Greenland, ice, Illustra Media, iron, krill, magnesium, manganese, materialists, metals, Michael Denton, molybdenum, PNAS, potassium, Privileged Species, rivers, sodium, The Wonder of Water, trace elements, vitamin B12}

Glaciers Enhance the Biosphere — By Design

_{Science and Culture
December 23, 2020

Intelligent Design

7}

Glacial meltwater performs unexpected and surprising roles that benefit life on earth. Read More ›