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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Biston betularia, Brian K. Hall, butterflies, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fruit flies, gene regulation, gills, Haeckel’s embryos, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Majerus, moths, Rosemary Grant, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, wings, Zombie Science (book)}

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

_{Robert Shedinger
July 20, 2020

Evolution

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From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Artificial Selection, barnacles, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, Charles Darwin, college students, Douglas Futuyma, Ecuador, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary theory, Fleeming Jenkin, Galápagos Islands, George Gaylord Simpson, Loren Eiseley, materialistic science, methodological naturalism, neo-Darwinian synthesis, On the Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Strickberger’s Evolution, Thomas Huxley}

Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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Just because something can be counted as science does not automatically mean that it is true. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn}

The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 7, 2020

Evolution, Science Education

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The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
June 3, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Africans, August Weismann, Charles Darwin, Christianity, coronavirus, critical race theory, Darwinism, Douglas Futuyma, evolution, intelligent design, liberalism, materialism, pandemic, Protestantism, Racism, religion, stereotype, theology, white supremacy}

Confessions of a Liberal Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
June 3, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Never has it been more important to look beyond a superficial materialist worldview and see our lives again in a transcendent framework. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, Cambridge, Cornell University, coronavirus, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Harvard University, homologies, intelligent design, Massachusetts, Michael Flannery, National Academy of Sciences, pandemic, Richard Owen, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, Switzerland}

Louis Agassiz and the National Academy’s Secret

_{Robert Shedinger
May 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Abraham Lincoln signed the Academy into law with Agassiz by his side. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 6, 2020

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Barbara McClintock, chaos, Discovery Institute, engineers, Eva Jablonka, intelligence, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, James Shapiro, John Cairns, Maxwell’s demon, molecular machines, motors, nanotechnology, natural genetic engineering, order, origin of information, Paul Davies, rotors, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Meyer}

Hey, Paul Davies — Your ID Is Showing

_{Robert Shedinger
March 6, 2020

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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No better advertisements for intelligent design exist than works written by establishment scientists that unintentionally make design arguments. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, 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}

Teilhard de Chardin and the Incomplete Nature of Evolutionary Theory

_{Robert Shedinger
February 13, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science

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As Thomas Nagel would argue today, any theory of evolution that excludes the origin of mind and consciousness from consideration is at best half a theory. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine}

Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
January 13, 2020

Faith & Science

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As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 10, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, American Association for the Advancement of Science, August Weismann, dialogue, economics, eugenics, evolutionary biology, evolutionary theory, gender, humanities, natural selection, race, religion, San Diego, science, Science (journal), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, sexuality, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theologians, theology}

On Doing Science Versus Understanding Science

_{Robert Shedinger
December 10, 2019

Evolution

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Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ashley Montagu wrote in 1947, “Race differences arise chiefly because of the differential action of natural selection on geographically separate populations.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, American Association for the Advancement of Science, biomimicry, creationism, Darwinian materialism, dialogue, Georgia, intelligent design, materialism, pastors, priests, religion, Rice University, San Diego, science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

Letter from San Diego: Science for Seminaries or Materialism for the Masses?

_{Robert Shedinger
December 6, 2019

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I recently traveled to San Diego to attend the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Read More ›