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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 28, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, biological systems, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Immanuel Kant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Joana Xavier, Last Universal Common Ancestor, life, LUCA, Michael Behe, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Stuart Kauffman}

“Irreducible Complexity” May Be Part of the Definition of Life

_{Daniel Witt
June 28, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There are many bad counter-arguments to Michael Behe’s famous irreducible complexity conundrum, and (in my opinion) one pretty good one. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, arrival of the fittest, automobile, Darwinian evolution, de novo genes, evolution, François Jacob, genes, intelligent design, molecular machines, predictions, Sleeping Beauties, tinkerer, William A. Dembski, Zeitgeist}

The Junk Shop of Andreas Wagner

_{Daniel Witt
June 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

The fundamental dilemma is this: whenever you co-opt any part from an old system and put it in a new system, there are two possibilities. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 6, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Andes, Andreas Wagner, creationism, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, evolution, evolutionary biology, foresight, fossils, intelligent design, Lake Malawi, Michael Behe, Richard Lenski, Sleeping Beauties, stickleback fish, University of Zurich}

The Enchanted Sleep of Andreas Wagner

_{Daniel Witt
June 6, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

Apparently, Darwinian evolution doesn’t actually explain life. This may come as news to some people. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Rutherford, codons, Darwinists, Denis Noble, DNA, evolution, genome, germline, information, intelligent design, medicine, proteins, Richard Dawkins, RNA, self-replication, The Guardian, The Selfish Gene, unguided processes}

Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis

_{Daniel Witt
May 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Leading the charge against the model is — of all people — one of Dawkins’s own doctoral examiners at Oxford, the renowned physiologist Denis Noble. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Andrea Roli, argument from ignorance, blacks, élan vital, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Huffington Post, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, James Barham, James Shapiro, Peter Corning, Racism, Stuart A. Kauffman, University of Chicago, vital force, vitalism}

Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?

_{Daniel Witt
May 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

For proponents of ID, there is a natural temptation to respond to this sort of explanation with derision. I suspect this reaction may be short-sighted. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrea Roli, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Dalton, Douglas Axe, Epicureanism, Epicurus, Evolution “On Purpose”, flukes, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, Michael Behe, New York City, On the Nature of Things, philosophers, predictions, Stuart Kauffman, universe, University of Bologna, worldview}

Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent-Design Argument

_{Daniel Witt
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Translation: Everything that exists was made not by intelligent design, but rather by the random arrangement and rearrangement of atoms. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, New Synthesis, panspermia, Peter Corning, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, symbiosis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia}

Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

_{Daniel Witt
May 1, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

7}

I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, agency, automaton, complexity, consciousness, evidence, evolution, free will, fungal mind, human behavior, hyphae, imago Dei, intelligence, intelligent design, Internet, Judeo-Christian tradition, learning, materialism, memory, mind, Nicholas P. Money, Ohio, randomness, science writers, scientists, sensitivity}

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

_{Daniel Witt
April 29, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

8}

Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 22, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, Department of Defense, engineers, GPS, helicopter, humanity, Illustra Media, intelligent design, magnetic field, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies, Mexico, military, monarch butterfly, sharks, submarine, whales}

Battle Butterflies

_{Daniel Witt
April 22, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

4}

Every year, around a billion monarchs travel from across North America to gather overwinter in a few specific locations in Mexico. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, chickens, designer, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary pathway, evolutionary theory, lungs, organisms, Princeton University, Research, Richard Dawkins, superpower, synchronicity, Thanksgiving}

Ignorance of Evolutionary Theory as a “Superpower”

_{Daniel Witt
April 15, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

7}

Early in her career, Celeste Nelson tried to publish a paper on chicken lung development. The reviewers were not very interested in her findings. Read More ›