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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
December 7, 2020

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Medicine
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, ambiguous genitals, As Nature Made Him, Baltimore, boys, Brenda Reimer, Bruce Reimer, Canada, castration, circumcision, developmental biology, gender, gender identity, girls, Janet Reimer, John Colapinto, Johns Hopkins University, kindergarten, New Zealand, pediatricians, penis, Ron Reimer, sex, Tinkertoys, toys, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series, vagina, Winnipeg}

Money, Sex, and Gender

_{Jonathan Wells
December 7, 2020

Medicine

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"We both wanted to play with guys, build forts and have snowball fights and play army… She played with my toys: Tinkertoys, dump trucks." Read More ›

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Jonathan Wells

Date
December 4, 2020

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Medicine
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, ambiguous genitals, babies, biological sexes, boys, brains, chromosomes, Colin Wright, females, feminists, gametes, genitalia, girls, human behavior, intersex people, Jerry Coyne, John Money, Leonard Sax, males, ova, Simone de Beauvoir, sperm, surgery, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series}

Is It a Boy or a Girl?

_{Jonathan Wells
December 4, 2020

Medicine

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Parents with a new baby are almost always asked, “Is it a boy or a girl?” And the answer is almost always one or the other. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 21, 2020

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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, abortion, abortion pill, Albert Olszewski, Alberto Giubilini, Ana Rosa Rodriguez, Animal Liberation, aversive action, babies, birth canal, blood samples, brain, curette, developmental biology, dilatation and curettage, dilatation and evacuation, distress, fetal age, feticide, fetuses, Food and Drug Administration, Francesca Minerva, gestation, gestational age, Guttmacher Institute, Indiana, injury, Montana, New York City, newborns, Nik Hoot, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, phenylalanine, phenylketonuria, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy tissue, prosthetic legs, Roman Catholic, Russia, Should the Baby Live?, Sopher clamp, United States, Washington Post}

At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

_{Jonathan Wells
September 21, 2020

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Peter Singer has argued that animals, like humans, deserve protection because of their ability to suffer. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 14, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Alberto Giubilini, babies, Caenorhabditis elegans, Danio rerio, Darwin Day in America, developmental biology, Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila simulans, embryonic age, empirical science, fallopian tube, fertilization, fetus, Francesca Minerva, gastrulation, Haeckel’s embryos, Homo sapiens, human being, humans, identical twins, John West, last menstrual period, Lewis Wolpert, materialistic philosophy, materialistic science, monozygotic twins, mother, ovulation, pain, phylotypic stage, Roman Catholic, zygote}

Why Should a Baby Live?

_{Jonathan Wells
September 14, 2020

Medicine

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My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
April 9, 2020

Categories
Biology
Medicine
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, __k-review, cancer, cell metabolism, common descent, disease, DNA, evolutionary theory, medical degree, medical school, Mel Greaves, Moshe Oren, mutations, nature, Neo-Darwinism, p53 protein, patients, physicians, Randolph Nesse, Ras family, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series), Theodosius Dobzhansky, tissue, TP53 gene, tumor, tumor suppressor, Varda Rotter, Zombie Science (book)}

Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease

_{Jonathan Wells
April 9, 2020

Biology, Medicine

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Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, a leader in this movement for “Darwinian medicine,” would require “questions about evolution in medical licensing examinations.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
March 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
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, __k-review, Center for Science and Culture, evolution, free will, Harold C. Urey, intelligent design, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, spirit, Stanley L. Miller, students, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, U.C. Berkeley, University of Chicago, Yale University, Zombie Science (book)}

Textbooks Still Misrepresent the Origin of Life

_{Jonathan Wells
March 31, 2020

Evolution, Origin of Life

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After 2000, some textbooks were corrected, but in many cases the corrections were minor and the books continued to perpetuate the misrepresentations. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
March 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, 2019-nCoV, body plans, Charles Darwin, China, 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, medicine, 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}

Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution

_{Jonathan Wells
March 30, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, 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
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 26, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, behavior, creationism, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, En Arche Foundation, eugenics, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Fundacja En Arche, Grzegorz Malec, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, marriage, Marxism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, morals, Phillip E. Johnson, Poland, Polish, relationships, restaurants, Signature in the Cell, slavery, Stephen Meyer, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, World War II}

Darwinism and Intelligent Design in Poland

_{Jonathan Wells
February 26, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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I told the staff of En Arche that the foundation reminded me of Discovery Institute twenty years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Charles Darwin, Darwininan theory, Divine Foot, evolution, free will, Genetics and the Origin of Species (book), intelligent design, Keith Stewart Thomson, macroevolution, microevolution, mind, Neal C. Gillespie, spirit, Theodosius Dobzhansky, William A. Dembski, Zombie Science (book)}

On Evolution, Can’t We All Just Get Along?

_{Jonathan Wells
February 17, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Lutheran theologian Ted Peters concludes that “a culture war is raging, to be sure. But, this is not a war between science and faith.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 10, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
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, __edited, American Freedom Alliance, California Science Center, cancel culture, creationism, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, En Arche Foundation, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, First Amendment, free speech, Fundacja En Arche, Helsinki University of Technology, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, lawsuit, Leon, Marcos Eberlin, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Poland, Richard Sternberg, Signature in the Cell, Smithsonian Institution, Spain, Stephen Meyer, U.S. Constitution, University of Algarve, University of Warsaw, Warsaw}

Cancel Culture Comes to Poland

_{Jonathan Wells
February 10, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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This sort of behavior is not new. In 2004, the University of Helsinki (Finland) cancelled some scheduled talks by Discovery Institute fellows Paul Nelson and Richard Sternberg. Read More ›