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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, origin of life, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center}

Walter Bradley on the Origin of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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We are grieving the recent loss of Walter Bradley, a longtime Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, ACLU, Bible, Bolton Davidheiser, Casey Luskin, censorship, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, Dayton, Democrats, Dudley Field Malone, Edward Larson, freedom, fundamentalists, Haeckel’s embryos, history, Holocaust, Horatio Hockett Newman, Human Zoos, Icons of Evolution, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Wells, March of Man, Maynard Metcalf, Phillip E. Johnson, Scopes trial, Social Darwinism, Summer for the Gods, Supreme Court, Teaching Company, The Daily Wire, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan, Zombie Science}

Inhibit the Mind? Scopes Revisionism Can End

_{David Coppedge
July 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The centennial of the Scopes Trial is a good time to set the record straight. Here’s a way to turn the tables on the stereotype. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Amazon, astronomer, beavers, biochemists, biology, chance, Easter Island, elements, evolution, gods, helium, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, iron picks, Laurence Moran, life, necessity, New York City, Norman Lockyer, Occam’s razor, On the Origin of Species, parsimony, skyscraper, smartphones, special creation, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, stone hammers, Stonehenge, will}

How Did the Designer Do It?

_{Daniel Witt
July 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 13, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Andrew Orlowski, Andriy Burkov, anti-Semitism, artificial intelligence, David Strom, Gary Smith, Google Gemini, Grok, hallucination, Harvey Weinstein, Henry Kissinger, Hot Air, Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Funk, Jews, large language models, MechaHitler, Mind Matters, Skynet, Spiked Online, X (platform)}

Grok as Hitler 2.0 Reveals Hard Limits to AI

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 13, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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We mustn’t attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, incompetence, corruption, or blind ambition. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, code, creative power, Darwin’s Doubt, evolution, evolutionary processes, ID the Future, information processing systems, integrated circuits, intelligent design, Joe Rogan, mutation/selection mechanism, nano-machines, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, signaling molecules, Stephen Meyer, transcriptional hierarchies, variations}

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” A Question for Stephen Meyer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That’s a good question that could start a very productive conversation about the origin and development of life on Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 11, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, attractants, Bacillus subtilis, bacteria, biological systems, biology, bioluminescence, chemotaxis, complexity, Darwin’s Black Box, E. coli, genes, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, musicians, outer membrane, painters, poisons, proteins, Salmonella, signal transduction, sporulation, toxins}

Recurring Design Logic in Living Systems

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 11, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Architects, painters, musicians, and other creators apply recognizable patterns of thinking to their craft. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
July 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Bible, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Dayton, Field Museum of Natural History, Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence, Melvyn Douglas, mental hospitals, mental illness, On the Origin of Species, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Proverbs, Robert E. Lee, Spencer Tracy, Tennessee, William Jennings Bryan}

Scopes and History: A Personal Reminiscence

_{Bruce Chapman
July 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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In 1956 my father, a devout Darwinian who had failed to persuade me by taking me to the esteemed Field Museum in Chicago, treated me to a theater offering. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Alexander Winchell, Antonin Scalia, censorship, Dayton, Edward J. Larson, Evolutionary Studies Institute, intelligent design, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Plato’s Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Scopes Monkey Trial, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Supreme Court, Tennessee, The Daily Wire, Vanderbilt University}

One Hundred Years After Scopes, It’s “Scopes-in-Reverse”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Casey Luskin tried to contact the folks at Vanderbilt about the lock-out, but no one even bothered to get back to him. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 9, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bacteria, Camp Mystic, campers, counsellors, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, good, Gottfried Leibnitz, group selection, innocent suffering, Ivan Karamazov, kin selection, Lisbon earthquake, mourning, natural selection, PZ Myers, reciprocal altruism, summer camp, The Doors of the Sea, theodicy, Voltaire}

The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

_{Michael Egnor
July 9, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
July 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, Communism, Conservation of Information, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, democracy, freedom, George Weigel, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialism, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Paul Nelson, Poland, Robert Stackpole, social realism, theistic evolution, theology, Tree of Life, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Pact, William A. Dembski, World War II}

Postcard from Warsaw: Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
July 9, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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At our conference, we discussed the parallels between Communism and Darwinism. Perhaps the two are fated to meet the same end. Read More ›