Category: Evolution

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Close Encounters: A Better Explanation, Douglas Axe, Duane Gish, evolution, extraterrestrials, Francis Schaeffer, G. K. Chesterton, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Research, John Warwick Montgomery, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, New Age, Pandora’s box, Stephen Meyer, Steven Spielberg, UFOs, University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago Circle, William Dembski}

My History with Information: Opening Pandora’s Box

_{William A. Dembski
September 25, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Naturalism is like a Pandora’s box in that all of scientific explanation must be kept inside it. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, argumentum ex silentio, Canon George D. Smith, Catholic Church, Catholic University of America Press, Chance or Purpose?, conflations, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Descent of Man, false dilemma, First Things, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Galileo Affair, Historical Aspects of Organic Evolution, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, intelligent evolution, Kenneth W. Kemp, Michael Keas, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Philip G. Fathergill, Pope Pius IX, Richard Owen, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen M. Barr, The Origins of Catholic Evolutionism, The Teaching of the Catholic Church, Unbelievable}

Slapdash History, Questionable Logic Applied to “Catholic Evolutionism”

_{Michael Flannery
September 25, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

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When Pope Pius IX awarded St. George Jackson Mivart a doctorate, he was not by implication casting his imprimatur or approval on evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Devil’s Chaplain, biology journals, Cell (journal), cell phones, Christians, Darwinism, Darwinist materialism, debates, detritus, ENCODE project, engineers, evolutionary biologists, expectations, function, genome, genomic function, informational sequences, intelligence, intelligent minds, junk DNA, materialism, mind, New Atheists, paradigm shift, paradigms, Richard Dawkins, scientific discovery, theistic evolutionists, Townhall}

Casey Luskin: A Chasm Between Paradigms

_{David Klinghoffer
September 23, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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To speak of a “paradigm shift” on Junk DNA is another way of saying that the debate is over and ID won. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, atheist biologists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, biologists, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, cosmology, cultural Christianity, Daniel Dennett, dark matter, intelligent design, Japanese soldiers, John Gray, Lawrence Krauss, military history, molecular biology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New Atheists, Philippines, physicists, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Stephen Meyer, Steven Bartlett, The God Delusion, The Telegraph, World War II}

Meyer: Twenty Years Later, Debate with New Atheists Is Over

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

In the Philippine jungles after World War II, a few lonely Japanese soldiers carried on fighting for decades, not realizing the war was over. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alvar Ellegård, Anglo-Saxons, Bishop Paulinus, Cerne Abbas Giant, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Coifi, creation, Darwinism, Eamon Duffy, Edwin King of Northumbria, England, English monarchy, Henry Allcott, Hermetic Society of the Golden Dawn, Madame Helena Blavatsky, Maximilien Robespierre, meaningfulness, natural selection, nobles, Origin of Species, Penda, philosophy, polytheists, Protestantism, Richard Dawkins, Rudolf Otto, Sir Charles Lyell, spiritualism, survival of the fittest, The Stripping of the Altars, Thomas Jefferson, Venerable Bede, Victorians, Wagnerian opera, William Judge}

The Darwinian Revolution: A Longer Historical Perspective

_{Neil Thomas
September 16, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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It is well enough known that our remote ancestors, the Anglo-Saxons, were originally polytheists who had voyaged over the English Channel. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alphabet, amino acids, beta lactamase, Brandeis University, cells, chaperones, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzymes, Gemini, genome, HeliScrew4, helix, improbability, indels, Karl Popper, peptides, PNAS, polypeptides, promissory materialism, protocell, random letters, randomness, razor wire, selective pressure, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, supersecondary structure, tandem repeats, The Self and Its Brain, UC San Francisco}

Testing the Creativity of Randomness

_{David Coppedge
September 15, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The evolutionary part of this paper relies on wishful thinking. What “could” or “might” happen occurs only in their evolutionary imaginations. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, emotion, evolution, explainaway, falsified theories, Georgia Tech, human brain, limbic system, lizard brain, neuroscience, overthinking, Paul D. MacLean, physiology, pop psychology, reptilian brain, Science Daily, smarts, social anxiety, The Dragons of Eden, universe}

Return of the Lizard Brain? It Seems Not

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 10, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

It’s easy to see why people might latch onto the idea of a reptilian brain as an explainer, or an explainaway, for complex topics. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biotechnology, biotic populations, Center for Science and Culture, Christians, conversations, farming, fruit, ID Education Day, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, multicellular complexity, offspring, Pew Research Center, reproducibility, Science and Culture Today, seeds, seminars, Summer Seminars, synthetic biochemistry}

The Marvel of a Seed — Applications for Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
September 9, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Growth of the ID movement has occurred through “sowing the seeds” of evidential support for the theory. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, asylums, Balrog, British society, characters, charity, Chicago, compassion, credit card debt, Darwinian narrative, Darwinism, emergency management coordinators, federal law enforcement, first responders, Gandalf, Geoffrey Simmons, history, home foreclosure, hospitals, human life, military specialists, national security agents, Oppenheimer’s Demon, panic, perpetrators, physicians, stakes, stories, World War II, worldview}

Why the Satisfying Thrill of the Thriller? Thoughts on Oppenheimer’s Demon

_{Terrell Clemmons
September 8, 2026

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This week marks 25 years since the shocking attacks of September 11, 2001. Why did the civilized world respond as it did? Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, abstract, biochemists, C. W. Howell, Discovery Institute, dissertation, documentation, Duke University, fabrication, investigation, Michael Behe, New York University Press, notation, Office of Counsel, public access, publishers, reputational harm}

Duke University to Remove Access to C. W. Howell’s Dissertation with Fabrication

_{John G. West
September 8, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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On August 27, I wrote to Duke's Office of Counsel, informing them that Howell’s book has been withdrawn by its publisher because of the fabricated quote. Read More ›