Category: Evolution | Page 208 | Science and Culture Today

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May 27, 2020

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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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, 3D printing, Big Bang, Cambrian Explosion, cells, Charles Darwin, Eric H. Anderson, evolution, Evolution & Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, podcast, purple unicorn, Richard Dawkins}

Evolving a Self-Replicating Molecule Is a “Purple Unicorn”

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May 27, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Eric H. Anderson tells of Richard Dawkins’s glib assurances that the mystery of the origin of life is one not far from being solved. Read More ›

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May 25, 2020

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Evolution
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, altitude, brown bears, climbing, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, evolution, genes, genetic information, genome, hemoglobin, Himalayas, loss of function, Michael Behe, Mount Everest, mount improbable, natural selection, oxygen, PNAS, polar bears, positive selection, Tibetans, Wikipedia}

Behe Vindicated Again: Sherpas Climb Everest Easier, Because Darwin Devolves

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May 25, 2020

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How can Tibetans survive high altitudes that leave lowlanders gasping? The answer is found in broken genes. Read More ›

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May 23, 2020

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Evolution
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, __edited, earth, evolution, ID the Future, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, Lee Spetner, Not by Chance, podcast, population genetics, species, The Evolution Revolution}

Listen: Lee Spetner Takes Aim at Natural Selection and Population Genetics

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May 23, 2020

Evolution

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ID the Future explores key arguments from Dr. Spetner’s books Not by Chance and The Evolution Revolution. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
May 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, African cichlids, ATP synthase, chemoreceptor, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Dollo’s Law, Evolution (journal), evolutionary biologists, gene duplication, Harvard University, hemoglobin, humans, Jerry Coyne, Joseph Thornton, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, molecular evolution, molecular genetics, mutations, Plasmodium vivax, Pseudomonas fluorescens, red blood cells, Science (journal), Skeptic Magazine, Washington Post}

Harvard Molecular Geneticist Vindicates Michael Behe’s Main Argument in Darwin Devolves

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May 22, 2020

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Mainstream evolutionary biologists are independently arriving at very similar conclusions to Behe’s central thesis. Read More ›

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May 20, 2020

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Evolution
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, cells, Darwinians, Darwinism, evolutionists, fitness, mutations, neo-functionalization, organisms, PNAS, protein evolution, proteins, pseudogenes, selection}

Collateral Damage: Mutations Decrease Fitness in More Ways than One

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May 20, 2020

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If mutations are the raw material for evolution, they are like explosives with unpredictable effects. Read More ›

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May 17, 2020

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Evolution
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, __edited, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, evolution, ID the Future, information, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, Lee Spetner, MIT, Neo-Darwinism, Not by Chance, physicists, podcast, propaganda, The Evolution Revolution, Thomas Malthus}

Why Neo-Darwinism Is Less than a Theory

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May 17, 2020

Evolution

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Lee Spetner also argues that, contrary to Darwinist propaganda, the evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria demonstrates a loss of information rather than a gain. Read More ›

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Michael Flannery

Date
May 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christopher E. Cosans, Europe, Harvard University, James Dwight Dana, Joseph Barnard Davis, Louis Agassiz, Museum of Comparative Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Paul Broca, Racism, religion, Samuel George Morton, Stanford University, The Descent of Man}

Louis Agassiz: Some Additional Thoughts

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May 14, 2020

Evolution

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Despite the significance of Agassiz’s scientific accomplishments, his heavy historical baggage cannot be lightly discarded or ignored. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, active information, BIO-Complexity, Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón, Darwinian evolution, E. coli, equilibrium, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness landscape, genetic algorithms, genome, Jonathan Bartlett, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mathematician, Michael Behe, mutations, Richard Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski}

New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information

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May 13, 2020

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William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target. Read More ›

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Robert F. Shedinger

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, Cambridge, Cornell University, coronavirus, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Harvard University, homologies, intelligent design, Massachusetts, Michael Flannery, Museum of Comparative Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, pandemic, Richard Owen, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, Switzerland}

Louis Agassiz and the National Academy’s Secret

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May 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Abraham Lincoln signed the Academy into law with Agassiz by his side. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, animals, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran biota, embryos, fossil record, Jerry Coyne, Metazoa, metazoans, microfossils, Namapoikia rietoogensis, Namibia, Neoproterozoic, New York Times, Newfoundland, Nick Matzke, Norway, paleontology, precambrian fossils, protists, Rugoconites enigmaticus, Russia, snowball Earth, South Australia, spicules, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa, Triradialomorpha, White Sea, Wikipedia}

The Myth of Precambrian Sponges

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May 12, 2020

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Evolutionists would expect to find sponges as the earliest animals in the fossil record. Read More ›