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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
November 22, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, devolution, Discovery Institute, educators, evolutionary theory, Facebook, genes, genetic information, Google, Günter Bechly, HarperOne, Instagram, intelligent design, Lehigh University, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, polar bears, scientists, social media, Twitter, young people}

For #GivingTuesday, Help Michael Behe Demonstrate that Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan Witt
November 22, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In the first chapter, Behe the Darwin skeptic throws a curve ball. The neo-Darwinian mechanism did create the polar bear from the brown bear, he announces. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
August 9, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, antibiotic resistance, atheism, BIO-Complexity, bioengineering, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Günter Bechly, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Matti Leisola, pesticides, Philip Skell, Richard Lewontin, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, The New York Review of Books, The Scientist, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn}

Correspondence: A Father, an Atheist Son, and Darwin Heretic Matti Leisola

_{Jonathan Witt
August 9, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The father had sent his son a copy of our book, urging him to read it so the two could discuss the evidence and arguments there. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 8, 2018

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", American Scientific Affiliation, Big Bang, Charles Townes, deism, history, intelligent design, Louis Pasteur, Nobel Prize, science, scientism, theistic evolution}

In Defense of Theistic Evolution, Denis Lamoureux Rewrites History

_{Jonathan Witt
June 8, 2018

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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Scientism’s grand progress narrative holds that as we learn more and more about the world, purely natural or material explanations inevitably will arise and grow stronger. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 18, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, americans, bats, biologists, Bioscience, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, DDT, Dogs, Douglas Axe, education, evolution, Galápagos Islands, Jonathan Wells, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, mosquitos, paleontologists, peer-reviewed literature, public education, Richard Dawkins, science, survey, Texas, UC Berkeley, University of Cambridge}

For Selling Evolution, a Little Knowledge Is a Glorious Thing

_{Jonathan Witt
May 18, 2018

Evolution, Science Education

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Many Americans reject evolution, a recent paper suggests, because they’re uninformed. Read More ›

Man check blood pressure monitor and heart rate monitor with digital pressure gauge. Health care and Medical concept

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
April 7, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, blood pressure, Darwinian theory, evolution, health, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, life, medicine, physician, podcast, Ray Bohlin}

The Designed Body: Our Irreducibly Complex Blood Pressure Control System

_{Jonathan Witt
April 7, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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We always hear about friends and family with blood pressure problems. There’s something easy to miss, though. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Ann Gauger, bacteria, bioengineering, David Klinghoffer, devolution, enzymes, evolution, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, ID the Future, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, Michigan State University, microbes, polar bears, Richard Lenski, Science Daily, The Edge of Evolution, tryptophan}

Evolution a Creative Trickster? Heretic Bioengineer Says No

_{Jonathan Witt
February 23, 2018

Evolution, Life Sciences

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Many of the oft-cited examples of evolution in action involve devolution. Read More ›

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Author
Matti Leisola

Date
February 14, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Antony Flew, atheism, bad design, Darwinism, evolution, Finland, Heretic, human eye, intelligent design, Matti Leisola, religion, Richard Dawkins, science, The God Delusion, theism, theology, Thomas Nagel, vertebrate eye, vestigial structures}

A Heretical Bioengineer Asks: What Do the Darwinists Have to Hide?

_{Matti Leisola and Jonathan Witt
February 14, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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They argue our eyes are wired “backward,” a jerry-rigged fix compliments of blind evolution. But we now know that “backward wiring” actually improves oxygen flow. Read More ›

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Author
Matti Leisola

Date
February 8, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Finland, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, James Tour, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Matti Leisola, methodological materialism, Stanley Miller, Stonehenge}

Heretic, Intelligent Design, and the Materialism of the Gaps

_{Matti Leisola and Jonathan Witt
February 8, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Consider an analogy. Imagine you have gone to visit the circular pattern of great stones on the Salisbury Plain in England known as Stonehenge. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
September 10, 2017

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, chimpanzees, Chromosomal Fusion, classes, common ancestry, common descent, common design, convergent evolution, Darwinism, evolution, human evolution, intelligent design, junk DNA, Neo-Darwinism, phyla, species}

Common Descent or Common Design? An Exercise in Question-Begging

_{Jonathan Witt
September 10, 2017

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Darwinists point to similarities across species, classes, and phyla, and argue that this shows we’re all descended from a common ancestor. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
August 22, 2017

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, cicadas, Discovery Institute, earth, eclipse, Eugene Wigner, G.K. Chesterton, Missouri, Moon, Seattle, sun}

I Witnessed the Perfect Solar Eclipse in Missouri. Amazing!

_{Jonathan Witt
August 22, 2017

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

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For those for short moments of totality, sun and moon fit hand and glove. Like a key and its lock. Read More ›