Author: David Coppedge

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 22, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, amplitude, animals, Arctic terns, barometric pressure, bats, birds, Brown University, convergent evolution, Current Biology, engineering, flapping, Flight, Flight (documentary), geese, geolocator, Illustra Media, Kenneth S. Breur, light, nocturnal migration, Olivia Pomerenck, PNAS, powered flight, predators, starlings, stars, turbulence, V formation}

Birds on the Move: Awe at the Wonders Overhead

_{David Coppedge
September 22, 2026

Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Migrating birds like geese and ibises often fly in a V formation. It’s a memorable sight for birdwatchers looking up into the sky. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alphabet, amino acids, beta lactamase, Brandeis University, cells, chaperones, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzymes, Gemini, genome, HeliScrew4, helix, improbability, indels, Karl Popper, peptides, PNAS, polypeptides, promissory materialism, protocell, random letters, randomness, razor wire, selective pressure, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, supersecondary structure, tandem repeats, The Self and Its Brain, UC San Francisco}

Testing the Creativity of Randomness

_{David Coppedge
September 15, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The evolutionary part of this paper relies on wishful thinking. What “could” or “might” happen occurs only in their evolutionary imaginations. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, Caenorhabditis elegans, Chlamydomonasuse, cilium, Darwin's Black Box, electron micrograph, evolution, flagellum, Gaia Pigino, intelligent design, intraflagellar transport, Irreducible Complexity, Kirsty Wan, Ludek Stepanek, Michael Behe, microalgae, mousetrap, organelles, oscillators, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pronk, Science (journal), springbok, University of Cambridge}

Galloping Flagella and Cilia Railroads — Celebrating Darwin’s Black Box

_{David Coppedge
August 4, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These organelles, protruding from the cell into the environment, could not be built by a Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AlphaFold, biochemistry, central dogma, condensates, conservation, Darwinian theory, devolution, disease, DNA, evolutionarily conserved, function, genetics, genome, IDR-ome, intrinsically disordered proteins, intrinsically disordered regions, Levinthal paradox, mutations, original design, PNAS, polypeptides, proteins, proteome, sequence conservation, unevolved}

Active Matter: Newfound Order in “Disordered” Proteins

_{David Coppedge
June 25, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intrinsically disordered regions of proteins may not be functionless after all. They appear to be multi-functional. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, algorithm, Ariel Chipman, Artificial Selection, balancing selection, BioEssays, Cambrian Explosion, co-option, conservation, Darwin Devolves, Dyna Rochmyaningsih, evolution, Galápagos Islands, gene duplication, genetic drift, genetic mutations, Hugo de Vries, hybridization, introgression, John Sanford, John Templeton Foundation, magic, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, mount improbable, Mutant Ninja Turtles, natural selection, negative selection, Owen D. Jones, personification, Phillip E. Johnson, polyploidy, process, programming, pterosaur, purifying selection, Richard Lewontin, Robert Hazen, Spiderman, stabilizing selection, Stuff Happens Law, subfunctionalization, survival of the fittest, The Design Inference, Tom Bethell, tuatara, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionists Need a Refresher Course in Natural Selection

_{David Coppedge
June 9, 2026

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Abuses of the concept of natural selection abound not only in science news but in scientific papers in major journals as well. It’s time for a remedial course. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bioRxiv, Bright Angel Shale, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canadian Rockies, chelicerates, China, compound eyes, cosmos, Current Biology, Darwin's Dilemma, Douglas Axe, Ediacaran strata, fossil record, Grand Canyon, Hallucigenia, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design Collection, jellyfish, Jerry Harned, Jonathan Wells, Lad Allen, marine worms, Mark Edward Lewis, mites, Nature (journal), New York Times, olfactory organs, paleontology, Paul Nelson, PNAS, polychaetes, priapulids, Richard Sternberg, salmon, Science Advances, Science and Culture Today, scorpions, South Australia, spiders, stars, Stephen Meyer, The Origin of Species, The Privileged Planet, trilobites, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Utah}

Cambrian Explosion Remains the Gift that Keeps on Giving

_{David Coppedge
June 5, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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These representative papers show that the Cambrian Explosion remains a huge enigma for evolutionists. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 4, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ants, armadillos, bears, beavers, biomechanics, biosphere, birdsong, blue whales, coloration, dinosaurs, dolphins, dragonflies, echidnas, echolocation, engineering, giant sequoia trees, giant squid, habitat, hedgehogs, intelligent design, kraken octopus, lions, locomotion, materials, migrators, minisaur, monotremes, Museums Victoria, navigation, platypus, pterosaurs, sharks, sloths, structures, Stuart Burgess, Trichogramma, Ultimate Engineering, University of Regensburg, wasps, water, whale sharks, wooly mammoths}

Life at the Limits of the Possible

_{David Coppedge
June 4, 2026

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Stuart Burgess suggests that organisms at the extremes not only exemplify ultimate engineering but specifically point to theistic design. Read More ›

Business man afraid of his own shadow monster concept

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 14, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Andrew Knoll, anxieties, Biomimetics, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, chemical evolution, debates, Earth and Life, Enceladus, evolutionary icons, evolutionists, Faculty Club, Fear of Finding Out, Fear of Missing Out, Fear of Validating Outsiders, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, heretics, Howard Glicksman, human body, ignorance, intelligent design, James Tour, Lee Cronin, Lucy Hyde, Michael Denton, phobias, poor design, Privileged Planet, Rasoul Sorkhabi, Rice University, scholarship, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, Stuart Burgess, Texas A&M University, The Conversation, Titan, Ultimate Engineering, University of Bristol, Your Amazing Body, Zombie Science}

Darwinists Afflicted by Fear of Validating Outsiders

_{David Coppedge
May 14, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Fear of validating opposition to materialism diminishes the scholarship of some scientific publications. Their authors need to get a grip. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, British Association, Cambridge University, cancer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cecil J. Monro, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, configurational entropy, cosmology, Daniel Silver, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, fine-tuning, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Maxwell’s demon, molecules, Origin of Species, pain, Pangenesis, physics, poetry, punishment, Red Lions, science stopper, thermodynamics, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism}

Post-Darwin, Too, Maxwell Drew a Remarkable Design Inference

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2026

History of Science, Intelligent Design

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So far we detect significant prescience about intelligent design in Maxwell’s thought. He all but uses the phrase himself. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 2, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, C. S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, Douglast Axe, evolutionary literature, G. K. Chesterton, intelligent design, James C. Rautio, James Clerk Maxwell, Katherine Dewar, Lewis Campbell, Matthew Stanley, Michael Flannery, natural theologians, naturalism, Origin of Species, poems, Select Essay Club, Stephen Meyer, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell}

Before Darwin, How Maxwell’s Intelligent Design Argument Forecast Modern ID

_{David Coppedge
April 2, 2026

History of Science, Intelligent Design

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He was well versed in the evolutionary literature as well as in design arguments from antiquity to his day. Read More ›