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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, George Church, information, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Michael Ruse, money, Moon, Perry Marshall, phlogiston, phrenology, Richard Dawkins, rockets, Silicon Valley, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

Origin of Life Challenge: $10 Million, Just Lying Around

_{Daniel Witt
January 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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This is an obvious way to judge such theories. If someone claims to know how to make something, the natural response is, “Let’s see it, then.” Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Cicero, constraints, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Coppedge, exaptation, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lucretius, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, natural philosophers, Neo-Darwinism, Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum, Stuart Kauffman}

Hello, Stuart Kauffman

_{Daniel Witt
January 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anole lizards, Charles Darwin, complex systems, complexity, Democrats, empiricism, evidence for evolution, evolution, foresight, gene flow, Georgia Tech, hemoglobin, lactose, mice, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, Republicans, Rosemary Grant, speciation, The Atlantic, Tibet, University of Konstanz}

“Evolution in Real Time” (Yeah, Right)

_{Daniel Witt
January 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Yet another article announces a sociological study has found public attention towards the lionfish “is aiding in monitoring its evolution nearly in real time.” Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, amino acids, Aristotle, causation, chickens, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, evolutionary theorists, explanations, final cause, G.K. Chesterton, human body, intelligent design, laws of physics, life, materialism, Mereology, Mona Lisa, oncologists, purpose, purposefulness, quantum physics, science of purpose, screwdriver, Stephen J. Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, supernatural, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor

_{Daniel Witt
September 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 27, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, intelligent design, Jeffrey Shallit, Larry Sanger, Michael Behe, New York Times, no true Scotsman, peer review, peer-reviewed literature, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Intelligent Design and the “Stop Hitting Yourself” Argument

_{Daniel Witt
August 27, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A look at an underexamined rhetorical device, in the hands of Wikipedia and other ID critics. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autopoiesis, bacteria, biologists, Charles Darwin, diversification, emergence, Forensics, Gandalf, Harry Potter, intelligence, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mendelian genetics, Michael Behe, microscopes, molecular structures, Mount Doom, Neo-Darwinism, panpsychism, random variation, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, self-organization, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy, universe}

Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic?

_{Daniel Witt
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agency, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, coevolution, evo-devo, evolutionary theorists, hunter-gatherers, materialism, niche construction, Parmenides, Plato, sacred cows, self-organization, symbiogenesis, synergy, Systems Biology, teleonomy}

An Evolutionary Theorist Plays with Words; Let’s See How Far It Gets Him

_{Daniel Witt
August 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Francis Heylighen’s “ontology of relational agency” starts with an interesting observation. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Douglas Axe, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheists, Normal Science, panpsychism, paradigm shift, post-truth, Professor Dave, PZ Myers, religious right, Royal Society, Sam Harris, scientism, spiritualism, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution, tipping point, vitalism, Zeitgeist}

Is This a Paradigm Shift?

_{Daniel Witt
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Andréa Morris, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Evolution News, Forbes, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Joana Xavier, MIT Press, neo-Darwinists, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Perry Marshall, persecution, physiologists, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy}

Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

_{Daniel Witt and David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 1, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, beauty, engineers, fungi, intelligent design, nature, origami, Science (journal), Stanford University, Tanzania, The New Yorker}

Scientist Discovers a Protist’s “Cellular Origami” — The First Known Case

_{Daniel Witt
July 1, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You will probably not be surprised to hear that Dr. Prakash is an engineer as well as a biologist. This is predictable. Read More ›