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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
August 28, 2020

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, altruism, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Darwinists, Granville Sewell, insects, On the Origin of Species, plant galls, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Plant Galls, Evolution, and Intelligent Design

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
August 28, 2020

Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Complex structures of thousands of species have been formed for the exclusive good of other species, annihilating Darwin’s theory on his own terms. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, amino acids, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, camera eye, Dan-Eric Nilsson, engineer, evolution, François Jacob, indoctrination, intelligent design, mollusks, mutations, natural selection, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, tinkerer, vertebrates, Wistar Institute}

Squeezing Out the Mystery: Final Comments on Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The phenomenon of convergent evolution suggests that natural selection fits better with the analogy of the engineer than it does the tinkerer. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
August 14, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, bioengineering, chemicals, conformity, coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, masks, morality, Racism, teleology, The Conversation, transhumanism}

“Morality Pills”: Ethicist Calls for Drugs to Solve COVID Non-Compliance

_{Richard Weikart
August 14, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Medicine

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Whatever one thinks about government mandates relating to the coronavirus, Parker Crutchfield’s “solution” is worse than the problem. Read More ›

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Date
August 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), American Chemical Society, axon, Cambrian animals, China, Darwin's Dilemma, evolution, Foresight (book), Journal of Experimental Psychology, Marcos Eberlin, memory, mother-of-pearl, nacre, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Netherlands, Peking University, PNAS, Rube Goldberg device, Science Advances, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, water lilies}

In Defiance of Evolution, Hierarchical Design Is Ubiquitous in Biology

_{Science and Culture
August 11, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Design with interdependent layers presents a challenge to neo-Darwinism. Natural selection is oblivious to anything but an immediate beneficial variation. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, atomization, Chicago, civilization, Cliff Mass, Communism, Darwinian evolution, Dawinism, democracy, Edward Feser, freedom, Friedrich Engels, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, Kristallnacht, lockdown, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Nazism, npr, paralysis, Plato, Portland, terror, tyranny}

Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2020

Evolution

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The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 8, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, convergence, convergent evolution, Darwinism, engineer, Ernst Mayr, flowering plants, François Jacob, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, St. George Jackson Mivart, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, tinkerer}

Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 8, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amniotes, evolution, genome, living fossils, Nature (journal), New Zealand, vertebrates}

“Living Fossil”? Maybe. Tuatara Genome Is Now Sequenced and Published

_{Paul Nelson
August 7, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The tuatara genome is 5GB, making it enormous relative to other vertebrates — and full of surprises. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anthropology, culture, Darwinism, evolutionists, humans, intimacy, materialistic science, police, Portland, protests, sex, speech, Yitzchak Ben Mocha}

Evolution Can’t Explain Sexual Modesty; Why Not?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2020

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Darwinism is supposed to be a universal theory about biological diversity advancing through reproduction. Could such a basic observation be beyond its scope? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anthropology, apes, evolution, females, humans, males, mammals, natural selection, sex, Yitzchak Ben Mocha}

Privacy in Human Intimacy Isn’t About Evolution

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2020

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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We transcend the strictly material forces that spur natural selection. We, alone in the known universe, are moral beings. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, birds, blood, bones, brain, cartilage, chicken-and-egg problem, chromosomes, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, evolution of the sexes, female, fertilization, fingers, fish, genitals, hormones, inbreeding, joints, ligaments, male, muscles, natural selection, nerves, occipital lobes, ovum, primates, procreation, Science (journal), Science Advances, sperm, swimming, Wright brothers, zygote}

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 5, 2020

Evolution

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It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›