Author: Robert Shedinger

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, abiogenesis, biologists, Case Western Reserve University, credibility, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, grammar, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Molecular Evolution, methodological naturalism, MIT Press, origin of life, Peter Corning, scientific establishment, teleology}

Is Intelligent Design Gaining the Upper Hand?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Trustworthiness

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The underlying dynamic here is one of fear — fear of being associated with a movement one cannot easily dispel through evidence and argument. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, genetic engineering, intelligent design, Internet, Jesuits, noosphere, North American Teilhard Society, paleontology, Peter Medawar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Piltdown Man, The Phenomenon of Man, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel}

On the 70th Anniversary of His Death, Anything to Salute in the Thought of Teilhard de Chardin?

_{Robert Shedinger
April 10, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The significance of Teilhard's pointing out the incomplete nature of the evolutionary theory of his day should not be underestimated. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anglo-Saxons, Big Book, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, conservatives, Darwin’s Bluff, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, Ernst Mayr, Francis Crick, George Gaylord Simpson, HMS Beagle, J.B.S. Haldane, liberalism, liberals, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, On the Origin of Species, orchids, pseudoscience, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel}

Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives

_{Robert Shedinger
April 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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After a decade of immersing myself in Darwin studies, evolutionary theory, and intelligent design, I find myself unexpectedly supportive of the iD position. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 26, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algebra, algorithms, Charles Darwin, Evangelical Christianity, Irreducible Complexity, Jerry Coyne, jesus, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Michael Behe, Nicolaus Copernicus, religion, Theory of Everything, Why Evolution Is True}

Sorry, Dr. Coyne: There Is No Religion-Science Conflict

_{Robert Shedinger
December 26, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I dare say that Michael Behe has had a far greater influence on the field of evolutionary biology than Jerry Coyne has. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 4, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, antibiotics, bacterial flagellum, Ben Carson, Bible, Bill Nye, blood-clotting cascade, Charles Darwin, creationists, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, evolution, Francis Collins, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Wells, Lawrence Krauss, Luther College, medicine, Michael Behe, On the Origin of Species, pharmaceuticals, science writers, Vaccines, virology}

Shawn Otto and the “War on Science”

_{Robert Shedinger
December 4, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

5}

If evolutionary theory is so fundamental to medical research, why has no evolutionary biologist ever won a Noble Prize in physiology or medicine? Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Assembly Theory, homochirality, Lee Cronin, Lego blocks, machines, organic molecules, Paul Davies, scientists}

Is Assembling Life Like Assembling LEGOs?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 20, 2024

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

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Unfortunately, Sara Walker provides no clue as to what process does all the “constraining,” “funneling,” and “scaffolding.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
June 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Barbara McClintock, chicken-and-egg problem, DNA polymerase, ENCODE, How Life Works, living cells, naturalism, Philip Ball}

Reading Between the Lines: Intelligent Design in Philip Ball’s Non-ID Book

_{Robert Shedinger
June 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Ball, in describing this new biology, feels the need to appeal to design language despite his overt disavowal of any support for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Darwin Mythology, Darwin's bulldog, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian theory, debates, Dogs, history, Oxford, pigeons, precambrian fossils, Quarterly Review, Richard Owen, theology, Thomas Henry Huxley}

What Really Happened at the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 26, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

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The stereotype portraying Wilberforce as the pompous bishop rejecting Darwin on theological grounds is easily dispelled. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 21, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Book, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, domestication, evolution, health, history, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, variation}

Darwin’s Bluff — Continued

_{Robert Shedinger
February 21, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Recently, I turned up some later letters showing that Darwin’s bluff extended well beyond 1863. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, birds, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, Darwin’s God, evolution, fish, Galápagos Islands, intelligent design, natural history, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, species, theology, universal common descent}

Darwin’s “God Wouldn’t Do It This Way” Argument

_{Robert Shedinger
February 20, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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A book widely hailed as proposing a true mechanism for evolution actually reads more like an anti-creationist polemic. Read More ›