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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Eocene Epoch, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Germany, Messel}

Fossil Friday: Large Constrictor Snake from the Eocene

_{Günter Bechly
June 3, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fossils from this locality have to be transferred (re-embedded) into artificial resin to be preserved. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, atheism, Berra's Blunder, Cambridge University Press, coin toss, complex and specified information, creation myth, Darwinists, DNA, evolution, intelligence, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, life, natural selection, nature, proteins, Skeptical Inquirer, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, Thomas Aquinas}

Rosenhouse’s Blunder: Another Nonsensical Mathematical Argument Against Intelligent Design

_{Michael Egnor
June 3, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwinist mathematician Jason Rosenhouse uses the analogy of a coin toss to defend the Darwinian explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anti-communism, anti-evolutionism, Center for Science and Culture, Cold War, Communism, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, eugenics, euthanasia, evolutionary theory, Indiana University, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Karl Marx, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Nazis, Phillip E. Johnson, racial extermination, Racism, Red Dynamite, Socialist Darwinism, white nationalism}

Linking Darwin Skepticism with Anti-Communism, Historian Offers a Misguided Attack

_{Richard Weikart
June 3, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Weinberg's evidence that Discovery Institute uses intelligent design to bash communism is completely lacking. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common descent, Communications Biology, convergent evolution, Darwinism, Darwinism as religion, evolution, evolutionary tree, gene sequences, Milner Centre for Evolution, Phys.org, popularizers, Richard Dawkins, Tree of Life, University of Bath}

Study: “Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong”

_{Günter Bechly
June 2, 2022

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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This refutes one of the favorite talking points of popularizers of Darwinism like Richard Dawkins. Read More ›

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Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, eukaryotic cells, evolution, Frontiers in Microbiology, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, paradigm shift, prokaryotic cells, superorganism, universal common descent}

More Turbulence at the Base of the Tree of Life

_{Science and Culture
June 2, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For a theory whose empirical strength is so great that it cannot be doubted, universal common descent certainly is doubted a lot. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Answers in Genesis, anti-communism, Baptists, Carl Weinberg, Charles Darwin, Communists, cooperation, Cornell University Press, creationists, Donald Trump, E.O. Wilson, evolution, fundamentalists, history, Indiana University, Karl Marx, Ken Ham, Ku Klux Klan, Lamarckism, Marxists, Michael Ruse, Nazism, progressives, Red Dynamite, Socialist Darwinism, The Descent of Man}

Do Darwin Critics Reject Evolution Because They’re Anti-Communists? Carl Weinberg Says Yes

_{Richard Weikart
June 2, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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In a couple of cases, Weinberg goes beyond the pale, making accusations that are bizarre and even slanderous. Read More ›

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Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Australians, bioengineering, blood, breathing, circulatory system, earth, Eric Anderson, Günter Bechly, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, lungs, Michael Denton, paleontologists, podcast, respiratory system, secular humanism, sun, The Miracle of Man, theistic humanism}

Miracle of Man: Fine-Tuning for Blood and Breath

_{Science and Culture
June 1, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Denton provides a scientific underpinning for a theistic humanism far beyond the nihilistic implications of so-called secular humanism,” writes Günter Bechly. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, anti-communism, capitalism, Carl Weinberg, Christianity, Communism, Cornell University Press, creationism, Darwinism, evolution, Friedrich Engels, fundamentalists, history, immorality, Indiana University, Karl Marx, morality, Politics, power, Red Dynamite}

Rejecting Evolution Because of Anti-Communism? Charge by Cornell U Press Book Fails to Detonate

_{Richard Weikart
June 1, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Weinberg takes a historically accurate claim — that many creationists over the years blamed communism on evolution — and then blows it way out of proportion. Read More ›

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Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, carbon, David Coppedge, Europa, Europa Clipper, Ganymede, geophysics, Greenland, hydrogen, Jupiter, moons, NASA, nitrogen, ocean, oxygen, phosphorus, photosynthesis, seafloor, Stanford University, sulfur, water}

Why Scientists Think There Could Be Life on Europa

_{Science and Culture
June 1, 2022

Evolution, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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Jupiter’s moon Europa, somewhat smaller than Earth’s moon, may have surface water and organic chemicals, researchers say. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 31, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, body plans, camouflage, caterpillars, Charles Darwin, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, evolution, humans, industrial melanism, larvae, Michael Majerus, New York Times, On the Origin of Species, organs, peppered moths, pollution, sampling, second coming, tree trunks}

Peppered Moths: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

_{Jonathan Wells
May 31, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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At most, the story shows a change in the proportions of two varieties of the same species. Read More ›