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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
May 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, chess pieces, complexity, concertos, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary (series), double helix, egg, electric cords, embryo, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, intelligent design, Leonardo da Vinci, medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

_{Geoffrey Simmons
May 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, animal forms, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Hoover Institution, ID the Future, Peter Robinson, podcast, Stanford University, The Deniable Darwin, Uncommon Knowledge, Yale University}

The Mathematical Case Against Darwinian Evolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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The interview was inspired by Professor Gelernter’s essay “Giving Up Darwin: A Fond Farewell to a Brilliant and Beautiful Theory.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Zoology
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, butterflies, Charles Darwin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, immaterial genome, materialist explanations, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis (book), Michael Flannery, natural selection, naturalists, Paul Nelson, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, teleology}

Butterly Metamorphosis as a Test Case for Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome

_{David Klinghoffer
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Zoology

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What is the “it” (in “itself”) that carries through from beginning to end? The creature’s “self” seems to be lost along the way, in the goo. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metascience
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, a priori, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, failed predictions, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, mad cow disease, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientists, variation}

How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

_{Kirk Durston
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Life Sciences, Metascience, Scientific Reasoning

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To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lars Löfgren, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, sequoia trees, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, biologist, biophysicists, Dan Stern Cardinale, describing, echolocation, Emma C. Teeling, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary explanations, explaining, Flight, Gareth Jones, intelligent design, Michael Behe, presupposing, Rutgers University, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Uncommon Descent}

Let’s Enter “Bat Echolocation Evolution” in Google Scholar

_{David Klinghoffer
May 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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How did it arise? Is a detailed description available out there? When I tried that search myself, the first paper that came up was this one. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, biology, Charles Darwin, Clockwork, Darwin's Black Box, designer, DNA replication, Douglas Axe, evolution, hearing, intelligent cause, intelligent design, mechanics, Michael Behe, mind, molecular animations, photon detection, Undeniable (book)}

Molecular Animations Reveal Exquisite Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 13, 2025

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It is hard to watch these animations and not come away with the strong sense that these systems are the product of a conscious mind. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Zoology
Tagged
, agency, animal behavior, biologists, biology, commute, complexity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, DNA, Eric Hedin, hive, honeybees, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Lake Washington, migration, Mount Baker tunnel, physicists, protein-coding DNA, Richard Sternberg, Seattle, traffic}

Honeybees, Traffic Accidents, and the Immaterial Genome

_{David Klinghoffer
May 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science, Zoology

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An RV strangely burst into explosive flames yesterday afternoon in a traffic accident in the Mount Baker tunnel that leads from Seattle across Lake Washington. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, conflict myth, Cornelius Hunter, COVID-19, Dan Stern Cardinale, Darwin-skeptics, debate, evolution, Evolution News, faith, Inherit the Wind, lies, lying, masks, Michael Behe, misinformation, Plato's Revenge, propaganda, Richard Sternberg, Rutgers University, science, self-preservation, soldiers, tribal affiliation, tribalism, tribe}

Tribalism in the Evolution Debate

_{David Klinghoffer
May 12, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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What is all this about “lying”? Cornelius Hunter provides some context at the end of his video that I thought was insightful. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, aborted babies, Anthony Fauci, anti-science, BioLogos, climate change, Congress, COVID, Darwinian evolution, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Evangelical Christians, evolutionists, Federal Government, fossil fuels, Francis Collins, Harvard University, Jay Bhattacharya, John West, junk science, LGBTQIA, mice, Michael Behe, misinformation, pandemic, pro-science, recognize, Research, Richard Dawkins, scientific atheists, scientism, skepticism, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, taxpayers, Trump Administration, universities, University of Pittsburgh, vaginoplasty, Washington DC}

Group Founded by Francis Collins Launches PR Campaign for “Science”

_{John G. West
May 12, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Trustworthiness

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If your research at Harvard costs $1 million to conduct, Harvard will get an extra payment of nearly $900,000 to sweeten the deal. Who wouldn’t want free money? Read More ›