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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, astrobiology, bacteria, Canada, cell division, Chandra Wickramasinghe, common ancestry, common design, DNA replication, eukaryotes, fossil record, genetic code, genomes, Greenland, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, Nature Ecology and Evolution, prokaryotes, Ribosome, ScienceAlert, Stephen Jay Gould, Western Australia}

Study Finds Life’s Origin “Required a Surprisingly Short Interval of Geologic Time”

_{Casey Luskin
July 18, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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It’s certainly not impossible that life was already present on Earth at 4.2 Ga. And if it were true it would have intriguing implications. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood vessels, brain, cells, chromosomes, digestive enzymes, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), Dubai, enzymes, evolution, genetic disease, genetic instructions, heart, human body, intelligent design, Library of Congress, movies, nano-machines, Nautilus, New York City, nourishment, proteins, RNA, stem-cell, submarine, supplies}

Doctor’s Diary: A Truly Fantastic Voyage!

_{Geoffrey Simmons
July 17, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The old movie mostly dealt with the brain, lung, heart, blood vessels (all at the tissue level) and a few scattered cells. Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, “consensus science”, chatbots, Gary Smith, junk science, large language models, Massimo Pigliucci, p-hacking, pseudoscience, science, settled science}

Three Genuine Tells of Junk Science

_{Science and Culture
July 17, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Scientific Trustworthiness

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This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", evolution, fitness, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, podcast, risk, sleep, systems, unconsciousness}

Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 15, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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“Survival of the unconscious…the most unconscious person wins…that just doesn’t seem to fit at all with an evolutionary survival of the fittest paradigm.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, acorn, Aristotle, chance, Chance and Necessity, Francisco Ayala, Greek, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jacques Monod, Jay Richards, Marcos Eberlin, matter, Metaphysics (book), Michelangelo’s David, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, nature, possibilities, probability, Richard Dawkins, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, Shakespearean sonnet, specified complexity, systems, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Aquinas, tree, William Shakespeare}

Building a Better Definition of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
July 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Definitional change in science is par for the course: As paradigms shift because of scientific advances, textbook definitions change. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, adaptation, apocalypticism, book reviews, bottleneck, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, evolutionary biologist, Herbert Spencer, human extinction, MIT, persecution, revolutionary science, University of Melbourne, University of Toronto}

When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, culture, Emily Sandico, evolution, intelligent design, media, Return of the God Hypothesis, Spotify, Stephen Meyer, The Joe Rogan Experience}

A Year Ago Today, Steve Meyer Met Joe Rogan

_{David Klinghoffer
July 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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“Things seem much different than they did a year ago,” said our colleague Emily Sandico in an office conversation the other day. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 12, 2024

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Meaningful World, genius, happenstance, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Ken Boa, materialism, naturalism, nature, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

Jonathan Witt: More than Just “Bare” Design, Nature Reveals Cosmic Genius

_{David Klinghoffer
July 12, 2024

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Like a matryoshka doll, nature displays its depths in a hidden manner, not just on the surface. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Fossil Friday (series), Hallucigenia, holotype, lancelets, Pikaia, Royal Ontario Museum, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

_{Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
July 11, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, convergent evolution, epigenetics, evolution, eyes, fish, gene expression, genetic material, guppies, intelligent design, neo-Darwinian theory, parents, pigmentation, random changes, random mutation, random processes}

Blind Cavefish: Evolutionary Icon, or an Example of Preprogrammed Adaptation?

_{Emily Reeves
July 11, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There is another model that could explain the transformations of the cavefish. This model is called continuous environmental tracking and it is design-based. Read More ›