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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atmosphere, biochemistry, Book of Nature, creatures, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Daniel Reeves, divine design, earth, Emily Reeves, engineering, enzymes, hydrogen, intelligent design, oxygen, photosynthesis, Photosystem II, plants, Robert Boyle, Sabbath, scientists, solar panels, vegetation, wisdom}

Green Creatures: The Intelligent Design of Plants

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Emily Reeves notes the operation of photosystem II, “the only enzyme in nature that is known to be able to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dayton, drinking, eating, Ernest Hemingway, Evangelical Christians, fishing, Günter Bechly, headlines, Jews, John Scopes, journalism, newspapers, paleontologists, Paris, Princeton University, Scopes trial, Spain, William Jennings Bryan}

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 19, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, Casey Luskin, DNA, function, gene regulation, genome, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, microRNA, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, non-coding DNA, podcast, Richard Sternberg, The Myth of Junk DNA, William Dembski}

Another Case Where “Junk” Myth Impeded Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 19, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For decades, evolutionary biologists considered non-coding regions of DNA as evolutionary junk. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan CP, DNA, DNA replication, evolution, history of life, hypothesis, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, life, natural selection, primitive, sophistication, students, The Science Dilemma}

McLatchie Explains Design Implications of DNA Replication

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. McClatchie notes its “primitive” nature — meaning, not a lack of sophistication (quite the opposite!) but that life at the most basic level depends on it. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, assembly, bacteria, evolution, fact check, flagellum, headlines, Imperial College London, intelligent design, mathematical plausibility, microbiology, propellers, proteins, swimming, undirected processes}

Fact Check: Has a Study Shown “How Bacteria Evolved Powered-Up Propellers”?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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This is a classic case of the media overstating the evidence for some evolutionary claim. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, origin of life, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center}

Walter Bradley on the Origin of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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We are grieving the recent loss of Walter Bradley, a longtime Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, ACLU, Bible, Casey Luskin, censorship, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, Dayton, Democrats, Edward Larson, freedom, fundamentalists, Haeckel’s embryos, history, Holocaust, Human Zoos, Icons of Evolution, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Wells, Phillip E. Johnson, Scopes trial, Social Darwinism, Summer for the Gods, Supreme Court, The Daily Wire, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan, Zombie Science}

Inhibit the Mind? Scopes Revisionism Can End

_{David Coppedge
July 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The centennial of the Scopes Trial is a good time to set the record straight. Here’s a way to turn the tables on the stereotype. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Amazon, astronomer, beavers, biochemists, biology, chance, elements, evolution, gods, helium, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Laurence Moran, life, necessity, New York City, Occam’s razor, On the Origin of Species, parsimony, skyscraper, smartphones, special creation, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, Stonehenge, will}

How Did the Designer Do It?

_{Daniel Witt
July 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 13, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, artificial intelligence, Gary Smith, Grok, hallucination, Henry Kissinger, Jeffrey Epstein, Jews, large language models, Mind Matters, Skynet, X (platform)}

Grok as Hitler 2.0 Reveals Hard Limits to AI

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 13, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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We mustn’t attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, incompetence, corruption, or blind ambition. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, code, creative power, Darwin’s Doubt, evolution, evolutionary processes, ID the Future, intelligent design, Joe Rogan, mutation/selection mechanism, nano-machines, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, Stephen Meyer, transcriptional hierarchies, variations}

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” A Question for Stephen Meyer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That’s a good question that could start a very productive conversation about the origin and development of life on Earth. Read More ›