Category: Evolution

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 15, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, ancestors, animations, biology, brains, chance, cynodonts, dolphins, drinking water, elision, evolution, Evolution (TV series), eye evolution, eyes, intelligence, mutations, NOVA, PBS, professors, Richard Buggs, schools, scientific debate, simplification, teachers, virus}

Evolution Is Due to Evolution: PBS “Explains” Dolphin Intelligence

_{David Klinghoffer
October 15, 2026

Biology, Evolution

3}

The only lame excuse for an actual explanation of what “drives” it all is “chance”: “the chance events that rewired ancient brains.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 14, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __featured2, BBC Television, brains, Chris Packham, Christians, dolphins, elephants, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetics, intelligence, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, mistakes, NOVA, ostrich, PBS, Peter Holland, Richard Buggs, schools, scientific method, scientists, sex, The Open University, United Kingdom, wildlife}

Tonight on NOVA: From “These Tiny Little Mistakes” — Evolution!

_{David Klinghoffer
October 14, 2026

Evolution, Genetics

4}

“Life continues to create itself,” “evolution is entirely built on these tiny little mistakes.” Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Arthur M. Shapiro, C. S. Lewis Society, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Thaxton, Christian Leadership Ministries, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?, Darwinists, David L. Wilcox, David Raup, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Earl Warren, evolution, Field Museum, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Frederick Grinnell, Jesuit Campion Center, Jon Buell, Jonathan Wells, K. John Morrow Jr., Leslie K. Johnson, McLean v. Arkansas, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Owen Gingerich, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, Peter van Inwagen, Phillip E. Johnson, Southern Methodist University, Spring Systematics Symposium, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Stephen Sternberg, Tacoma, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, The Sources of Information Content in DNA, Thomas E. Woodward, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, Will Provine, William A. Dembski}

Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?

_{Stephen C. Meyer and William A. Dembski
October 13, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

14}

On March 26–28, 1992, scientists and philosophers assembled at Southern Methodist University for an event whose title posed a provocative question. Read More ›

Cowboy in saddle horseback on ranch for western industry lifestyle concept.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 11, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Being as Communion, biological evolution, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, cancer, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, design inferences, Discovery Institute, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, My Personal History with Information (series), new york, No Free Lunch, peer review, Rowman and Littlefield, Terence Moore, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Back in the Saddle: A Second Edition for The Design Inference

_{William A. Dembski
October 11, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The big obstacle for me came from feeling at odds with my publisher, Cambridge University Press. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Computations in Science Seminars, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary search, evolutionists, information, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Leo Kadanoff, mathematicians, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Paul Nelson, slides, Third Way of Evolution, Travel, University of Chicago, Wheaton College}

My 2014 Talk at the University of Chicago

_{William A. Dembski
October 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

5}

After it had been announced on campus, Jerry Coyne, a prominent Darwinian biologist at the University of Chicago, tried to talk Leo into disinviting me. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, arrorws, Evangelical Philosophical Society, functional analysis, George Montañez, information, Jay Richards, logarithm, mathematics, measure theory, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Niels Bohr Institute, No Free Lunch, phi, Philosophia Christi, quiver, replicational, Robert J. Marks II, sigma, specificational, The Design Inference, Thomas English, vector-valued integration, Winston Ewert}

Searching Large Spaces: The Mathematical Details

_{William A. Dembski
October 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

Think of replicational resources as arrows in your quiver and specificational resources as targets so that hitting any of them counts as a success. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, Australia, Bauplans, blueprints, body plans, Cladotheria, echidnas, evolution, families, fossil record, geological record, marsupials, Multituberculata, neo-Darwinian evolution, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, platypuses, predictions, Prototheria, punctuated equilibrium, stasis, Stephen Jay Gould, Symmetrodonta, Tom S. Kemp, Triconodonta}

From Australia’s Fossil Record, an Evolutionary Puzzle

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
October 6, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Historical Sciences

3}

In the present article, the most important result is this: All extant Australian marsupial families are also known from the fossil record. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, intelligent design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 6, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, biology, causal adequacy, creative intelligence, croissants, David Hume, DNA, fine-tuning, functional specificity, God Hypothesis, God of the gaps, hieroglyphics, improbability, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, J. P. Moreland, Kentucky Derby, living systems, materialistic explanations, Michael Shermer, natural world, parsimony, philosophy, physics, Pierre-Simon Laplace, placeholder, postulations, quantum cosmology, racehorse, religious scientists, scientific advance, scribe of the gaps, Seattle Slew II, specified information, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, universe, vera causa, William Lane Craig}

Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

32}

Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, Adolf Hitler, atheism, Bible, Britons, cosmologists, cultural Christianity, debates, fine-tuning, Frankie Howerd, Guy Consolmagno, humor, intelligent design, Joseph Stalin, knobs, liturgy, London, masturbation, meteorites, neo-Darwinian evolution, New Atheists, newspapers, philosophy, physicists, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, Sir Martin Rees, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, The Tablet, The Telegraph, Up Pompeii!, Vatican Observatory}

Stephen Meyer versus Richard Dawkins: A Contest Made in Heaven?

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Much of the response by Dawkins is defensive in tone, and shifts the discussion to one of ethics and philosophy with only a vague gesture towards science. Read More ›