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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 9, 2023

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, biologists, Bruce Chapman, chance, creation, evidence, evolution, intelligent design, John Paul II, media, National Review, Neo-Darwinism, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic, Romans, truth, undirected evolution}

In Pope Benedict XVI, Science Had a Friend and Neo-Darwinism a Foe

_{Jonathan Witt
January 9, 2023

Culture, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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That Benedict meant to implicate neo-Darwinism in its flight from evidence is not mere wishful thinking on the part of the design community. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, Ernst Haeckel, euthanasia, evolution, genocide, Germans, history, Holocaust, Houston Baptist University, Nancy Pearcey, Nazis, Nordic race, Racism, Richard Weikart, The Descent of Man, Third Reich, University of Calgary, white nationalism, World War II}

New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now

_{Jonathan Witt
February 1, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Atlantic Ocean, biogeography, camera eye, Casey Luskin, common descent, common design, convergence, Emily Reeves, evolutionists, Harvest House, humans, ID the Future, monkeys, octopuses, podcast, Renaissance, solar system, South America, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, universal common descent}

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

_{Jonathan Witt
January 13, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, boys, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwin critics, evolution, girls, human behavior, ID the Future, materialism, natural selection, podcast, sexual selection, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Descent of Man, Victorian England, World War II}

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

_{Jonathan Witt
December 2, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
November 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Current Biology, devolution, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary tree, functionality, genetic information, ID the Future, introns, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, Plasmodium falciparum, podcast, Tree of Life, yeast}

Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan Witt
November 27, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

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Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
November 3, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, Arctic terns, Baylor University, computer engineering, Eric Cassell, ID the Future, intelligent design, monarch butterfly, Neural Networks, podcast, Robert J. Marks II}

New Book Spotlights High Tech Animal Navigation

_{Jonathan Witt
November 3, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Meet the animal kingdom’s most stunning navigators — the Arctic tern, homing pigeons, the monarch butterfly, and the desert ant, among others. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
November 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, animal behavior, Baylor University, bees, biologists, birds, brains, Discovery Institute Press, engineers, Eric Cassell, evolution, intelligent design, Melissa Cain Travis, NASA, Robert J. Marks II, Science and the Mind of the Maker, systems engineering}

New Book, Animal Algorithms, Spells Fresh Trouble for Darwinism

_{Jonathan Witt
November 1, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The book is all about the buzzing, migrating, web-spinning, and colony-building world of ingenious animals. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, americans, building blocks, Eric Anderson, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, Long Story Short, researchers, Rice University, Rob Stadler, scientists, YouTube videos}

New Animated Video Dismantles Origin-of-Life Hype

_{Jonathan Witt
October 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The origin of the first life required not merely design, but an ingenious designing intelligence far beyond that of our smartest origin-of-life researchers. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 22, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cars, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, common ancestor, Elon Musk, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tree, Francis Collins, Genome Research, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, historical sciences, intelligent design, junk DNA, Matti Leisola, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Meyer, Tesla, University of Cambridge}

Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

_{Jonathan Witt
October 22, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 14, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, "poor design", asteroid belt, bacterial flagellum, Christianity, creator, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, evolution, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, intelligent design, Jupiter, Kenneth Miller, Mars, methodological materialism, Michael Behe, Moral Law, Scott Minnich, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, The Language of God, William A. Dembski}

Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

_{Jonathan Witt
October 14, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it. Read More ›