Category: Evolution

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, allele sharing, butterflies, Chetone moth, common ancestry, common design, convergent evolution, deduction, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary tree, explanatory power, genes, genetic switches, genetic traits, Heliconius numata, inference, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Life’s Solution, moths, mutations, natural selection, paradigm, PLOS Biology, Richard Dawkins, Science Daily, Simon Conway Morris, technology, The Blind Watchmaker}

Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths and Butterflies

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
May 1, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, biologists, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Chronicles, college, Dallas, Dean Kenyon, documentary, Emily Sandico, Georges Lemaître, high school, intelligent design, Karl Marx, Los Angeles, Manhattan, media, reductionist materialism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, scientific materialists, Seattle, small screen, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything}

The Dallas of Everything: Stephen Meyer’s Completed Pilgrimage

_{John Zmirak
May 1, 2026

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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No one voice dominates the narration, with specialists who’d been interviewed stepping in to recount the parts of the story with which they’re familiar. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
April 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Armin Moczek, biochemistry, BioCosmos, children, Christianity for Doubters, civilizations, College Physics, computers, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwin’s Doubt, David Snoke, engineering, Eric Anderson, evolution, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, eyes, Field Museum of Natural History, Foresight (book), George Gaylord Simpson, humans, intelligent design, James Tour, John von Neumann, Marcos Eberlin, mathematicians, Michael Behe, Nobel Prize, origin of life, Peter Urone, phones, reproduction, Rice University, Robotica, self-reproduction, simplicity, spaceships, The Story of Everything}

Four Major Questions for Materialists

_{Granville Sewell
April 29, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Let’s look at the long, complicated counterargument of the materialists to see if we can find the errors or unverified points. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
April 28, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, brewer’s yeast, Complex III, complexity, electrochemistry, electrons, elegance, Energy, engineers, flavin adenine dinucleotide, intelligent agent, mitochondrial membrane, mitochondrial respiratory chain, molecular machines, natural selection, organic chemistry, oxygen, protons, quantum tunneling, reverse-engineering, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, semiquinone, ubiquinol}

The Nanoscale Engineering of Complex III

_{Emily Reeves
April 28, 2026

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If I put on my reverse-engineering hat, this enzyme looks like the work of a designer who deeply understood electrochemistry and quantum tunneling. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
April 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, acyl transfer, aldehydes, alphabet, amino acids, anhydrides, atoms, biosynthetic cost, codons, cyclisation, decomposition, DNA replication, esters, Francis Crick, hydrolysis, hydrophobicity, ketones, nitriles, polypeptides, protein core, proteins, purposeful selection, racemisation, side chains, solubility, stability, surface, teleology, The FEBS Journal, tRNAs}

The Set of Amino Acids Used in Life Is No “Frozen Accident”

_{Jonathan McLatchie
April 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Significantly, these data indicate that the space of usable amino acids is severely constrained. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __trending, Africa, atheists, authority, clicks, consonants, cultures, Darwinian evolution, declensions, documentary, evolutionary theory, human exceptionalism, Khoisan languages, language, leftists, Michael Knowles, Noam Chomsky, primates, primitive, priors, Return of the God Hypothesis, sophistication, Stephen Meyer, technology, tenses, The Story of Everything, tongue}

Meyer, Knowles: The Evolutionary Mystery of Language

_{David Klinghoffer
April 26, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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If languages evolve in the familiar Darwinian manner, you would expect there to be a range of sophistication levels across the spectrum of human languages. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ambulacrarians, bilaterian animals, bilaterians, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, China, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Darwin’s Doubt, Douglas Erwin, Ediacaran Period, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, genes, genetic information, Günter Bechly, Hemichordata, homoplasy, paleontology, phyla, Porifera, precambrian fossils, Science (journal), Scientific American, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation}

The Prescient Günter Bechly: New Paper Doesn’t Negate the Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
April 23, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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Let’s consider the fossils the paper identifies as appearing in the Ediacaran but that belong to phyla previously known to appear first in the Cambrian. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, air bladder, animals, beach, beachcombing, bilaterian animals, brown algae, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, convergent evolution, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran fossils, evolutionary theory, fauna, flora, fossil-hunting, fossils, hemichordate worms, holdfast, kelp, kelp stipe, Kingdom Protista, Margaretia dorus, Pacific Northwest, paleontology, plants, Precambrian strata, protists, rock hammer, Science (journal), tide-pooling, Western Washington}

Beach Stroll Casts Further Doubt on Some Supposed Ediacaran Bilaterian Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
April 20, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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In one instance I found a kelp on the beach with its holdfast still nicely attached. A photo of it is at the top. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ambulacrarians, ancestors, bilaterians, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cambroernids, Charnia, China, chordates, cladogram, cnidarians, crinoid, ctenophores, Current Biology, Ediacaran strata, fossils, Haootia, holdfast, Jiangchuan Biota, kelp, mackenziid, Margaretia dorus, Precambrian, Profera, Science (journal), Scientific American, The Conversation, vermiform, worms}

Science Paper Overstates Case for “Diverse Assemblage of Bilaterians” in the Ediacaran

_{Casey Luskin
April 20, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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I suspect the bilaterian nature of this “most numerous” fossil will be challenged as more studies come out. Read More ›

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Date
April 18, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, biologists, Center for Science and Culture, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwinian evolution, Darwinists, evolutionary theory, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Dilley, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Who Speaks for God? Darwinists Do, Apparently

_{Science & Culture
April 18, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Center for Science and Culture Senior Fellow Stephen Dilley explores this curious phenomenon in his talk at the 2025 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Read More ›