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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 25, 2023

Categories
Biology
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, antelopes, buffalo, cattle, chewing, cows, cud, deer, dirt, evolution, evolutionists, fossils, giraffes, grazing, grit, horses, paradigm shift, physiology, PNAS, ruminants, sheep, teeth, Thomas Kuhn}

Darwin, We Have a Problem: Horse Teeth Are Not Less Evolved

_{David Coppedge
January 25, 2023

Biology, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Life Sciences, Science

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Time to debunk another evolutionary story by questioning underlying Darwinian assumptions about how things came to be. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, "poor design", cells, COVID-19, engineers, evolution, Howard Glicksman, human body, humans, intelligent design, lockdown, Nathan Lents, physicians, single-celled organisms, Steve Laufmann, supply chain, vaccine mandates, Your Designed Body}

The Human Body Handles Its Supply Chain Beautifully. Why Can’t Humans Do the Same?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 7, 2022

Biology, Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Science

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We’ve lived for a couple of years now with the supply chain disaster, generated by COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2022

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, evolution, fitness function, Hamlet, information, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Stuart Mill, letters, logic, natural selection, polynucleotides, replicase, replication, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), selection, simplicity, Sol Spiegelman, spaces, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, unwashed middle, variation, William Shakespeare}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

_{William A. Dembski
August 31, 2022

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, accident, chance, cosmos, creation, evidence, fitness, human beings, intelligent design, Michael Denton, nature, Science, The Miracle of Man, universe}

Watch: Science Reveals the “Miracle of Man”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 11, 2022

Biology, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Biologist Michael Denton shows how science has reversed the depressive trend of the past five centuries. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 31, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design logic, engineers, fitness, fitness landscape, genes, genotype, height, intelligent design, living systems, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, physiology}

Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
August 31, 2021

Anatomy, Engineering, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Read More ›

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Date
January 20, 2021

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, California, cells, Columbia University, CRISPR-Cas9, DNA, Escherichia coli, genes, information, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature (journal), New York City, ribosomes, semantic information, serine, steganography, translation}

DNA Storage Goes Biological

_{Science and Culture
January 20, 2021

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design

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DNA is already known to be an ideal storage medium. Why not use cells to do the hard work? Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 17, 2020

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Tagged
, Achilles heel, Alan Turing, algorithms, computer science, Darwinian algorithm, early Earth, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary computation, fitness functions, Neural Networks, predictions, programmers, software}

Some Possible Reasons for the Limited Success of Evolutionary Algorithms

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 17, 2020

Environment & Climate, Evolution

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It is theoretically possible that out of thousands of scientists working on evolutionary computation, all failed to correctly implement the Darwinian algorithm. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 23, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, __edited, Africa, Aldous Huxley, atomic energy, bioethicists, biotechnology, Brave New World, China, Congress, Food and Drug Administration, genetic engineering, genome editing, germ line, human experimentation, Journal of the American Medical Association, media, medicine, scientists, social media, Stanford University, William Hurlbut}

Slouching Toward a “Brave New World”

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 23, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate

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Genetic engineering could unleash a deadly pandemic or lead to a “new eugenics” with very sharp teeth. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
May 23, 2019

Categories
Environment & Climate
Geophysics
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, __nedited, Alfred Wegener, Aristotle, biodiversity, Continental Drift, Copernicus, Darwinists, desert, Donald Brownlee, earth, exoplanets, heliocentrism, James Kasting, lithosphere, magnetic field, Mars, Milky Way, Peter Ward, plate tectonics, subduction, sun, Venus, volcanism}

Plate Tectonics: Why Life Is Served on Plates

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
May 23, 2019

Environment & Climate, Geophysics, Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth

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The ground under your feet is literally moving. The continents are drifting apart near an average rate of one inch per year. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, activists, criminals, development, earth, ecocide, environmentalism, ethnic cleansing, fish, genocide, global warming, grass, insects, Lake Erie, mice, natural resources, natural world, nature, nature rights, people, prison, snakes, The Guardian, The Hague, Toledo, United Nations}

“Ecocide” Would Criminalize Resource Development

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 5, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism

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Note that “peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants” is a very broad term that is not limited to human beings. Rather, it includes everything from grass, fish, and insects, to mice, snakes, and people. Read More ›