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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Psychology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, animals, apes, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, cruelty, Death in the Afternoon, Dogs, Donald Trump, Ernest Hemingway, gorillas, human exceptionalism, human origins, humans, Jim Banks, Journal of Human Evolution, Lucy, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), New York Post, paleoanthropologists, people, psychology, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Smithsonian Institution, wokeness}

Luskin in the NY Post Calls Out Smithsonian on Human Origins

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July 28, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Psychology

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The museum misinforms visitors about how humans are so very, very close to non-human creatures. Equating humans with non-humans isn't humane. It's the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, accountability, Annual Homeless Assessment Report, brain, Bruce Chapman, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, chimpanzees, culture, Denyse O'Leary, Donald Trump, evolution, evolutionists, Executive Order, Federal Government, Fix Homelessness, healing, homelessness, Housing First, humans, intelligent design, Jonathan Choe, journalism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, Michael Medved, mind, near-death experiences, Plato’s Revenge, public policy, recovery, Richard Sternberg, soul, The Immortal Mind, The Varieties of Religious Experience, treatment, William James}

Homelessness, Intelligent Design, and the Unseen Realm

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Compared with previous approaches, the new Executive Order reflects a fundamentally different picture of reality. What should we call it? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, common ancestor, common ancestry, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, DNA, Erika DeBenedictis, evolution, gap divergence, genetic similarity, gibbon, Gone with the Wind, gorillas, Gutsick Gibbon, human origins, humans, intelligent design, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Trump Administration, YouTube videos}

As Luskin Debunks 1 Percent Myth, Evolutionists Fire Wildly in Response

_{David Klinghoffer
July 24, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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The myth matters because a toxic lie being advanced in our culture denies the exceptional status of human beings in nature. Many evils follow from that denial. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, biology, Christoph Schönborn, Clarence Darrow, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Father Martin Hilbert, Father Raymond J. de Souza, Georges Lemaître, intelligent design, National Catholic Register, New York Times, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Scopes trial, Toronto Oratory}

National Catholic Register: Father Hilbert “Would Have Won the Argument with Darrow”

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July 21, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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For Catholics (and others) interested in the subject, Father de Souza has a book recommendation from Discovery Institute Press. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atmosphere, biochemistry, Book of Nature, creatures, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Daniel Reeves, divine design, earth, Emily Reeves, engineering, enzymes, hydrogen, intelligent design, oxygen, photosynthesis, Photosystem II, plant leaves, plants, Robert Boyle, Sabbatarians, Sabbath, scientists, solar panels, vegetation, water molecule, wisdom}

Green Creatures: The Intelligent Design of Plants

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Emily Reeves notes the operation of photosystem II, “the only enzyme in nature that is known to be able to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, BBC Earth Science, bullfighters, bullfighting, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dayton, drinking, drumstick, eating, Ernest Hemingway, Evangelical Christians, evolutionary orthodoxy, fishing, fist-fighting, Günter Bechly, H. L. Mencken, headlines, Jake Barnes, jealousy, Jews, John Scopes, journalism, Lady Brett Ashley, newspapers, paleontologists, Pamplona, Paris, Princeton University, Robert Cohn, Scopes trial, Spain, The Sun Also Rises, William Jennings Bryan}

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

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July 21, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan CP, DNA, DNA replication, evolution, history of life, hypothesis, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, life, natural selection, primitive, sophistication, students, The Science Dilemma, unguided evolution}

McLatchie Explains Design Implications of DNA Replication

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July 18, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. McClatchie notes its “primitive” nature — meaning, not a lack of sophistication (quite the opposite!) but that life at the most basic level depends on it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Alexander Winchell, Antonin Scalia, censorship, Dayton, Edward J. Larson, Evolutionary Studies Institute, intelligent design, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Plato’s Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Scopes Monkey Trial, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Supreme Court, Tennessee, The Daily Wire, Vanderbilt University}

One Hundred Years After Scopes, It’s “Scopes-in-Reverse”

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July 10, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Casey Luskin tried to contact the folks at Vanderbilt about the lock-out, but no one even bothered to get back to him. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allan Bloom, Anaxagoras, Biochemical Predestination, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, Dean Kenyon, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, galvanism, Guillermo Gonzalez, horror novels, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Lord Byron, Louis Pasteur, Luigi Galvani, Mary Shelley, Michael Polanyi, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Percy Shelley, Plato, Reijer Hooykaas, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA, Roger Olsen, Shannon information, Signature in the Cell, spaghetti, specified complexity, spontaneous generation, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, uniformitarianism, Walter Bradley}

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

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July 8, 2025

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, argument in the alternative, attorneys, biology, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwinian evolution, defining id, defining science, definist fallacy, demarcation criteria, evidence, evidence for id, evolution, geologists, historical sciences, ID research program, intelligent design, lawyers, natural world, non-science, peer-reviewed literature, predictive-success, Research, science, scientific method, testability}

The Divide Between Science and Non-Science

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July 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The most commonly heard charge against ID is that it “isn’t science” and therefore can’t even be evaluated as a scientific alternative to Darwinian evolution. Read More ›