Category: Evolution | Page 34 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, crustaceans, Current Biology, frogs, fruit flies, homeostasis, Irreducible Complexity, life cycle, Metamorphosis, order, randomness, stability}

Homeostasis Is More than Treading Water

_{David Coppedge
July 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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From bacterium to brontosaur, stability in a dynamic environment requires an astonishing array of systems for sensing, signaling, and responding to change. Read More ›

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Date
July 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, biologic institute, Christians, Darwinian evolution, devolution, Discovery Institute Press, Douglas Axe, epigenetic change, evolution, faith and science, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Michael Levin, Plato’s Revenge, restaurants, Richard Sternberg, Sean McDowell, shopping, Sy Garte, Undeniable (book), voting, YouTubers}

Time for Christians to Move Beyond the Evolution Wars?

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July 1, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Actually, a paradigm shift is already underway. Traditional Darwinism faces challenges on a number of fronts within biology studies. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ACLU, Casey Luskin, crime, culture, Darwin skeptics, Dayton, evolution, faith and science, fundamentalism, human evolution, ID the Future, Inherit the Wind, media, Michael Egnor, modernism, podcast, radio, science, Scopes Monkey Trial, stereotypes, technology, Tennessee}

A Century Later, the Spirit of Scopes Is Alive and Well

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 1, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Reporting

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According to secularist legend, the Scopes trial represented a great showdown between ignorant, fundamentalist religion and enlightened, scientific progress. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, americans, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Big Bang, biology, brain, Christians, cultural Christianity, Dayton, Denyse O'Leary, DNA, Elon Musk, evolution, faith and science, feelings, immaterial genome, intellectuals, Jonathan Haidt, Jordan Peterson, mainstream media, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Niall Ferguson, Orthodox Jews, Pew Research Center, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Scopes Monkey Trial, Stephen Meyer, Tennessee, The Free Press, The Immortal Mind, Western civilization}

With Scopes Trial Anniversary Approaching, We Need Science, Not Just Feelings

_{David Klinghoffer
June 30, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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At best, Christian commitment without a reasonable basis is only shifting sand under believers’ feet. At worst, it invites disdain. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), common ancestry, common design, creationists, Discovery Institute, evolution, evolutionary biology, genetic differences, genetic similarities, genetic variations, geologists, humans, Institute for Creation Research, intelligent design, Joel Duff, Jonathan Wells, National Museum of Natural History, persistent scientific errors, PZ Myers, Smithsonian Institution, University of Akron, University of Minnesota, YouTube videos, Zachary Ardern, zombies}

On Human-Chimp Genetic Differences, the Critics Misstate My Arguments

_{Casey Luskin
June 30, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Evolution defenders generally accept the new evidence showing that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different but downplay the new number. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 28, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Arts
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, amphibians, birds, cars, cave bears, cephalopods, driving, fish, Flight, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, natural selection, reptiles, University of Sydney}

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 28, 2025

Archaeology, Arts, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), Amazon, chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), common ancestry, DNA, Financial Times, function, genetic difference, genetics, genomes, human exceptionalism, humans, Joel Duff, junk DNA, Nature Communications, Nucleic Acids Research, nucleotides, objections, reactions, repetitive DNA, Science (journal), Smithsonian Institution, University of Chicago Press, Zachary Ardern}

Critics Change the Topic: Do Human-Human Genetic Differences Matter?

_{Casey Luskin
June 26, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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One of the common yet unexpected reactions from critics to the discovery that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different is to change the topic. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, brain, Charles Darwin, common ancestor, compartmentalization, creationism, Darwinism, digestive system, dualism, evolution, human lineages, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, J. B. S. Haldane, lungs, men, Native Americans, natural selection, Racism, random variation, savages, skin, tails, women}

21st-Century Darwinism’s Impossible Situation

_{Daniel Witt
June 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The nasty racial implications of Darwin’s theory should not just be tastefully ignored. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), apes, chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), deletions, DNA, genes, genetics, genome sequencing, genomes, humans, insertions, junk DNA, Nature (journal), Supplemental Data, technical failures, telomeres}

Are the New Ape Genomes Reliable?

_{Casey Luskin
June 25, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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We have good reasons to believe that these differences are reliable and real and even represent functional, meaningful DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Andrew McDiarmid, bonobos, Bornean orangutans, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, DNA, genetics, genomes, gorillas, humans, junk DNA, Nature (journal), Pan paniscus, reality, Research, siamangs, Smithsonian Institution, statistics, Sumatran orangutans}

Why Is the 1 Percent Myth So Beloved?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 25, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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When a belief conflicts with common sense present-day reality, it is usually upholding an irrational value. Read More ›