Category: Evolution | Page 257 | Science and Culture Today

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Michael Flannery

Date
July 30, 2018

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Botany
Evolution
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Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

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July 30, 2018

Botany, Evolution

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Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Read More ›

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July 29, 2018

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Evolution
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, __k-review, Darwinian evolution, evolution, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, Matti Leisola, podcast, Science Literacy, survey}

Listen: Greater Science Literacy Leads to Greater Acceptance of Evolution…Oh, Really?

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July 29, 2018

Evolution

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Jonathan Witt, co-author of the recent book Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, was skeptical when he heard that one. Read More ›

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Michael Flannery

Date
July 27, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Metaphysics
Philosophy
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, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Christianity, élan vital, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Harvard University, Henri Bergson, idealism, John Elof Boodin, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, paleontology, pantheism, positivism, pragmatism, realism, Stephen Hawking, William James}

Who Was John Elof Boodin and Why Does He Matter?

_{Michael Flannery
July 27, 2018

Evolution, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Boodin’s view that science and metaphysics could mutually inform one another was full of promise. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, Binghamton University, biologic institute, Homo sapiens, John Elof Boodin, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, natural selection, neo-Darwinian synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, teleology, vitalism}

Who Was Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Why Does He Matter?

_{Michael Flannery
July 26, 2018

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Bertalanffy’s systems-based approach continued under George Klir, and is carried on today by Dr. Richard Sternberg, who studied under Klir. Read More ›

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Michael Flannery

Date
July 25, 2018

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, anagenesis, anthropocentrism, cladogenesis, creationism, Darwinism, Ernst Mayr, Günter Wagner, Hilary Putnam, Julian Huxley, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, natural theology, neo-Darwinian synthesis, Peter Bowler, positivism, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vienna Circle, Werner Heisenberg}

The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: A Fable Told by Ernst Mayr

_{Michael Flannery
July 25, 2018

Evolution

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Mayr worked tirelessly to establish a synthesis bearing the unmistakable stamp of positivism. Read More ›

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Date
July 24, 2018

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, BIO-Complexity, biologic institute, Charles Darwin, dependency graph, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, evolutionists, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, genera, genetic data, humans, hybridization, intelligent design, Metazoa, Neanderthals, Oregon State University, scientific community, software, software engineering, species, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert, zebra finch, zebrafish}

Response to a Critic: But What About Undirected Graphs?

_{Science and Culture
July 24, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A dependency graph is not any old ad hoc hypothesis. It was posited because it is something that we observe in software engineering. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
July 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, accident, antibodies, Billions of Missing Links, cells, Charles Darwin, chromosomes, clotting factors, coincidence, Doctor's Diary (series), enzymes, evolution, Geoffrey Simmons, hormones, human body, intelligent design, lightning, Mars, Modernizing Darwin (series), nerve conduction, slaves, spontaneous generation, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Doctor’s Diary: Is Darwin Still Relevant?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
July 23, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There was a lot of mysticism and far too many guesses in 19th century. The time has come to modernize his views. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2018

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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, __k-review, Bayesian reasoning, BIO-Complexity, Brian Miller, calculations, Charles Darwin, complexity, Cornelius Hunter, creationism, data, dependency graph, entropy, evolution, fundamentalism, genes, genome, intelligent design, National Center for Biotechnology Information, parsimony, software, Thomas Bayes, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert}

The Dependency Graph Hypothesis — How It Is Inferred

_{Science and Culture
July 23, 2018

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Ewert proposes that life is best explained not by Darwin’s hypothesis of an ancestry tree, but by a modern design-inspired hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 22, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, evolution, icon, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, long-necked giraffe, natural selection, peacock, podcast, probabilistic complexity, Research, sexual selection, specified complexity, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, tiger, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Giraffe Weekend: Can Sexual Selection Save This Evolutionary Icon?

_{David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig concludes that, “Sexual selection is not the cause of the long-necked giraffe.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, "poor design", brain, dysteleology, engineer, evolution, fish, gills, Giraffe, heart, icon, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, long-necked giraffe, podcast, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, Richard Dawkins, tetrapods, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe}

Giraffe Weekend: The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2018

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Darwinists have called it one of “nature’s worst designs,” “obviously a ridiculous detour,” asserting that “no engineer would ever make a mistake like that.” Read More ›