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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, annelids, arthropods, bilaterian animals, burrowing, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, cnidarians, Deuterostomia, Ediacaran animals, Germany, Helminthoidichnites, microbial mats, Nephrozoa, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Protostomia, Scyphozoa, South Australia, UC Riverside, University of California, Yilingia spiciformis}

Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?

_{Günter Bechly
March 26, 2020

Evolution

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Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 25, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, David Attenborough, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolutionists, John West, morality, natural selection, plague, Sir David Attenborough, spirituality}

Are Humans “A Plague on the Earth”?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 25, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Back in January in Dallas, Discovery Institute organized its major conference on science and faith, before a huge and appreciative audience. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
March 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, Discovery Institute Press, hypotheses, Melvin Calvin, naturalism, On the Origin of Species, positivism, science, scientists, special creation, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theism, tolerance}

Metaphysical Tolerance: A Discipline for Progress

_{Walter Bradley, Charles Thaxton, and Roger E. Olsen
March 25, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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The quest for truth has never been easy, and has on more than a few occasions been known to make one unpopular. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
March 24, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, biological information, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, chemicals, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Francis Crick, James Watson, neo-Darwinian theory, nucleic acids, origins, prebiotic evolution, proteins, Roger Olsen, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins

_{Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, and Roger E. Olsen
March 24, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The impressive complexities of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules are presently developed in nature only in living things. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 23, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, courage, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Discovery Institute Press, Evolution News, ideology, James Tour, Justin Brierley, Lee Cronin, narrative, Rice University, skepticism, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Unbelievable}

Finally, an Origin-of-Life Scientist Debates Skeptic James Tour

_{David Klinghoffer
March 23, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Origin of Life

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When Tour gets done, the narrative we all learned in high school biology class is in shreds on the floor. Read More ›

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Author
Dean H. Kenyon

Date
March 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Biochemical Predestination, biopolymers, Dean H. Kenyon, genetic information, isomer, living systems, polynucleotides, polypeptides, proteins, protocells, San Francisco State University, scientists, second of law thermodynamics, Stanley Miller, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

What Scientists Fear: Foreword to The Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{Dean H. Kenyon
March 23, 2020

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Perhaps scientists fear that acceptance of this conclusion would open the door to the possibility (or the necessity) of a supernatural origin of life. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, 9/11 attack, Alexander Flemming, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, atheism, biological information, Charles Darwin, Christianity, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Edward Jenner, emergency room, epidemiology, evolution, fireman, Girolamo Fracastoro, Harvard University, hazmat suit, housekeepers, ICU, Ignaz Semmelweis, John Snow, Jonas Salk, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, narrative gloss, natural selection, neurosurgery, nurses, pagans, pandemic, Paul Ehrlich, plague, Purell, Robert Koch, Rodney Stark, Shop Rite, Spencer Wells, stock boys, Thomas Sydenham, unintelligent processes}

Upstairs into the Plague

_{Michael Egnor
March 18, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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Every stock boy or housekeeper or nurse is doing more to fight this pandemic than all the politicians and talking-head science grifters and tenure-track professors. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, “consensus science”, Discovery Institute, Heritage Foundation, ID the Future, Jay Richards, March for Science, podcast, science, scientism, skepticism, Washington D.C}

Listen: Jay Richards on Distinguishing Science from Scientism

_{David Klinghoffer
March 15, 2020

Evolution

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Listen in as Dr. Jay Richards discusses the issue of consensus in science, and when to doubt such a consensus. Read More ›

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Date
March 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, abduction, biological information, experimental science, fantasy science, historical sciences, ID the Future, inference to the best explanation, Kirk Durston}

Biophysicist and Philosopher Kirk Durston on Experimental, Inferential, and Fantasy Science

_{Science and Culture
March 14, 2020

Evolution

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In a conversation with host Andrew McDiarmid, Dr. Durston describes how abductive reasoning can be used as we consider the best explanation for the origin of biological information. Read More ›

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Date
March 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, experimental science, faith, fantasy science, ID the Future, inferential science, Kirk Durston, reproducibility crisis, science fiction, scientists}

Listen: Biophysicist and Philosopher Kirk Durston on Experimental Science

_{Science and Culture
March 12, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Durston says he has yet to find a true conflict between experimental, reproducible scientific observations and his religious faith. Read More ›