Category: Evolution

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
November 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, __featured1, amniotes, amphibians, animals, asteroid, Cambrian fossils, Casineria, cells, children, Coelophysis, coevolution, David Klinghoffer, Devonian Period, DoorDash, elephants, Epidexipteryx, evolution, Evolution (TV series), feathers, females, fins, fish, limbs, Magical Mystery Tour, males, mating dance, NOVA PBS, ostrich, ostrich eggs, paleontologists, parents, penis, Riley Black, Saturday morning cartoons, sex, shelled eggs, sperm, trilobites, vertebrates}

NOVA on How We Got Sex: It’s a Magical Mystery Tour, Baby

_{Terrell Clemmons
November 9, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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Like a good story often will, “The Mating Game” begins with an image which will serve to embody the narrative to come. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured3, agnostics, Bible, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Christians, cosmology, Field Museum of Natural History, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, Grand Canyon, history of life, Jews, modern humans, mutations, natural selection, Origin of Species, primates, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, unguided evolution, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Another Reality Outside Our Universe, Beyond the Reach of Science?

_{Granville Sewell
November 9, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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To “explain” fine-tuning, atheists are now reduced to imagining many universes with random values for the constants of physics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, Aeon, August Weismann, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, epigenetics, eugenicists, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, internal changes, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jessica Riskin, living things, Napoleon, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, Reign of Terror, Scientific American, seals, The Power of Life, Weismann barrier}

Back to the Future with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 4, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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Lamarck believed that “all living beings are constantly transforming themselves” and thus life forms shape their own evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 3, 2026

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Tagged
, ALH84001, Ana Garoña, artificial evolution, astrobiologists, cell division, cell size, college students, cytoplasm, engineering, enzymes, fitness, genome, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, homeostasis, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jan M. Skotheim, lipids, Mars, meteorite, mutations, nucleic acids, PNAS, Portugal, proteins, senescence, Shicong Xie, Steve Laufmann, Target of Rapamycin, telephone booth, tennis balls, Volkswagen, yeast cells}

Engineering Places Constraints on Cell Size that Evolution Cannot Explain

_{David Coppedge
November 3, 2026

Biology, Engineering, Evolution

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Cells reach a Goldilocks size for their needs. Evolutionists are at a loss to say how cells hit the sweet spot for smooth functioning. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 2, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, anatomy, Artificial Selection, biblical literalism, Charles Darwin, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, digital code, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, fine-tuning, fossil record, Great Britain, ID the Future, Joseph Hooker, living cells, logic, magic wand, mathematics, Natural History of Creation, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Quarterly Review, religion, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, speculations, Stephen Meyer, superstition, Thomas Henry Huxley, universe}

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 2, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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Wilberforce notes, among other things, Darwin’s error in arguing that natural selection operates the same way as artificial selection. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 1, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, Agner Fog, Barbra Streisand, bunny ears, Darwinism, Encyclopaedia Britannica, evolution, Glenn Reynolds, grumpy cat, H. Allen Orr, Journal of Memetics, lawyers, memeplex, memes, memetics, Nature (journal), neurons, New York Post, psychology, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, Simon Bennett, Stephen Jay Gould, Streisand effect, Susan Blackmore, Technical University of Denmark, The Meme Machine, The Selfish Gene, West Midlands Police}

Decline and Fall of Dawkins’s Meme Concept

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 1, 2026

Evolution, Psychology

5}

The term eventually became a general handle for the manipulation and transmission of images on the internet. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
October 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agency, agency theory, Aristotle, Beyond Mechanism, bioelectricity, Biological Theory, biology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, cellular biology, cheetah, chemical stimuli, cognitive biology, Evolution “On Purpose”, fear, goal-directedness, heart, hunger, immanent design, intelligent design, James Shapiro, kidney, libido, Little Gidding, living systems, materialistic paradigm, Michael Levin, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Pamela Lyons, Peter A. Corning, prokaryotes, science of purpose, Stuart Kauffman, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, T. S. Elliot, thirst}

Immanent Agency: It’s Evolution by Design, After All

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Agency theory as proposed certainly is not "magic," but it specifically invokes teleology within its operating framework. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, cancer, Darwinism, external forces, ID research community, ID the Future, intelligent design, living things, materialists, mechanistic view, medical oncology, organisms, podcast, purpose, scientific materialism, Stephen Iacoboni, Telos (book)}

Materialists Grapple with the Reality of Purpose in Organisms

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Twentieth-century materialism treated living organisms as reducible machines governed strictly by Newtonian physics and simple genetic mechanics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Rutherford, African savannah elephant, animal kingdom, BBC, bodies, cells, Chris Packham, creator, Current Biology, David Coppedge, documentary, DoorDash, elephant trunk, elephants, epistemology, Evolution (TV series), gills, Harvard University, inventor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, lungs, mammals, Mary Droser, methodology, muscular hydrostat, musculature, mutations, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Noel Naughton, NOVA PBS, Peter Girguis, phylogenetic analysis, presuppositions, Richard Buggs, UC Riverside}

In NOVA Evolution Series, Biological Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2026

Biology, Evolution

8}

The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, atheism, Charles Darwin, creativity, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary theory, free will, genes, Johns Hopkins, Modern Synthesis, Nathan Comfort, Nature (journal), On the Origin of the Species, organisms, Philip Ball, replicator, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, selfishness, The Genetic Book of the Dead, The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene, vehicle}

For Dawkins, a Second Sour Publishing Anniversary

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 29, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Nathaniel Comfort stops just short of saying that Dawkins’s ideas should be pensioned off, along with himself. Read More ›