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April 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, cancer, Casey Luskin, Darwin lobby, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, echolocation, functional information, gene duplication, genes, information, innovation, intelligent design, PLoS Genetics, purifying selection, RNA world, Science (journal), transposons, unguided processes}

Information from Nothing? Darwinists Must Believe It

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April 29, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Some evolutionists are becoming bolder in their assertions that information can arise from stochastic processes without intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Chernobyl, chimpanzees, Darwinism, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, DNA, equality, equity, Europe, intelligent design, Ivy League, John Zmirak, journalists, justice, mutations, natural selection, The Stream, theology, wokeness}

Zmirak: “Darwin Addles the Mind”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 28, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The taproot in question is Darwinism, which “addles the mind” of the Woke elite, the “Ivy-schooled primitives,” whom Zmirak compares with cargo cults. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

_{Michael Flannery
April 28, 2021

Evolution

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Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, documentary, Douglas Axe, education, evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, media, natural selection, paradigm, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Paradigm Project}

New Trailer Out Now — The Paradigm Project

_{David Klinghoffer
April 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“This is some pretty mind-blowing stuff,” as host Kutter Callaway says. “So why aren’t we hearing this side of the story on our favorite nature show?” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinian evolution, Herbert Spencer, James Moore, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

_{Michael Flannery
April 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary ethics, Germany, Jeffrey O’Connell, Julian Huxley, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, militarism, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, Thomas Henry Huxley, World War I}

New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

_{Richard Weikart
April 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, anthropologists, anti-Semitism, Arthur Schopenhauer, biologists, Cambridge University Press, Christianity, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, human evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Mein Kampf, Michael Ruse, militarism, Nazism, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”

_{Richard Weikart
April 23, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Biola University, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, discount, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, molecular biology, natural selection, restaurants, Undeniable (book)}

The Dessert Cart Paradox — A “Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There’s a problem with evolution by “natural selection” that’s indicated in the very words themselves, as biologist Doug Axe points out. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, creationists, Darwinian gradualism, explosions, fossil record, Günter Bechly, jumps, Nature Communications, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, revolutions, Science & Culture Network, Southern California, Triassic period}

Dinosaurs and More: Bechly on the Fossil Record vs. Neo-Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 19, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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The evidence includes “explosions,” "jumps," and “revolutions” in the history of life that cannot be explained given the assumption of Darwinian gradualism. Read More ›