Category: Evolution | Page 102 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, divine image, evolution, fiction, human beings, males, masculinity, men, Nancy Pearcey, Sean McDowell, The Toxic War on Masculinity, women}

“What Is a Man?” — New Book Out Today from Nancy Pearcey

_{David Klinghoffer
June 27, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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Set aside one question of the moment — “What is a woman?” — and turn to another no less important problem that troubles our culture. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, chloroquine, chloroquine resistance, Darwin Devolves, drugs, evolution, evolutionary processes, fitness landscape, genotype, HIV, intelligent design, Michael Behe, mutations, phenotype, Plasmodium falciparum, Professor Dave, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I wonder whether Farina has in fact read Behe’s book for himself, or whether he is relying upon others, such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, Casey Luskin, CELS, Charles Darwin, Darwinian mechanism, Eric Anderson, evolution, finch beaks, ID the Future, intelligent design, macroevolution, microevolution, natural selection, peppered moths, podcast, unguided evolution}

Is Adaptation Actually a Fight to Stay the Same?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 26, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin pointed to small changes like finch beak size and peppered moth color as visible evidence of an unguided evolutionary process at work. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, cell membrane, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, machine, machinery, Michael Behe, microorganisms, mutation rate, natural selection, outboard motor, population size, Professor Dave, protein science, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, terminology, The Scientist, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 25, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, David Berlinski, Enlightenment, human nature, mathematician, Peggy Noonan, Peter Robinson, philosophers, Science After Babel, Titan, Titanic, Wall Street Journal, World War I}

Shades of Titanic — Probing the Wreck of the Unsinkable Enlightenment

_{David Klinghoffer
June 25, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Science and reason were supposed to transform the world for the good instead of soaking it in gore. Read More ›

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Date
June 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abduction, colleagues, dialogue, Evolution News, friends, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialism, misinformation, podcast, straw man, The Stream, Tom Gilson}

How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Friends

_{Science & Culture
June 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There is so much misinformation about the theory of ID that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature, a straw man. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Bayes factor, Center for Science and Culture, citrate, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, eggs, embryos, Escherichia coli, evolution, goal-directedness, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, James Tour, likelihood, lizards, metabolites, Michael Behe, natural processes, Rice University, Scott Minnich, The Edge of Evolution, University of Idaho}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino-acid sequences, Biochemical Predestination, complex specified information, Dean Kenyon, Hubert Yockey, information, information theory, Irreducible Complexity, James Tour, perpetual motion machine, Rice University, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Meyer, synthetic organic chemistry, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Washington, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Washington DC}

Information and Life’s Origin — A Retrospective View

_{Eric Hedin
June 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Unguided natural processes, according to the generalized Second Law, cannot systematically increase the information content of a closed system over time. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, biomolecules, chemical reactions, form, function, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism}

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, creation, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Erwin Schrödinger, giraffes, Homo sapiens, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, micromutations, natural preservation, natural selection, nature, Nick Lane, On the Origin of Species, quantum physics, Stanford University, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, University of Chicago Press, William Paley, William Shakespeare}

Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?

_{Neil Thomas
June 19, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point. Read More ›