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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Blaise Pascal, COVID-19, Darwinism, epidemiologists, experts, global cooling, global warming, Great Barrington Declaration, House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, Jonathan Haidt, journalists, medical professionals, Pandemic of Lunacy, People for the American Way, political debates, psychologist, schools, scientists, University of Texas at Austin, workplaces}

Questioning the Science Experts: Is It Even Permitted?

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 9, 2026

Evolution, Medicine, Scientific Reasoning

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If you're trying to do ID science, it's a little bit easier to be intellectually honest, because you have to work harder to make the case for your claim. Read More ›

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Date
April 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1984, Andrew Ellington, Arizona State University, Biodesign Institute, biology, catastrophe, creationists, DNA, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, George Orwell, Julian Huxley, Michael Lynch, molecular complexity, mutation rates, National Academy of Sciences, neo-Darwinian theory, novels, population geneticists, population sizes, proteins, Ribosome, RNA, story-telling, thoughtcrime}

Design Haunts a New Hypothesis for the Origin of the Ribosome

_{Science & Culture
April 6, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s worth paying some attention to the identity of the first author, population geneticist Michael Lynch of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, cultural timing, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, Europe, evolution, False Messiah, ID the Future, interviews, life, mythology, Neil Thomas, philosophical appeal, scientific demonstration, scientific materialism, storytelling, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Myth and Legend in Darwin’s Famous Origins Story

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 5, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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Neil Thomas makes a case that the rise of Darwin’s theory owes much to cultural timing, philosophical appeal, and persuasive storytelling. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Groothuis

Date
March 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Political Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, authoritarianism, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, biographers, Blaise Pascal, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, caste system, Christian philosophy, Christianity, Declaration of Independence, Deists, Elon Musk, endowed by our creator, evolution, First Amendment, Founders, Founding, French Revolution, guillotine, happiness, Hinduism, humans, image of God, infidels, Islam, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonardo da Vinci, philosophy, sanctity of life, Second Treatise on Government, social contract theory, St. Augustine, Steve Jobs, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, The Social Contract, theism, theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, Unitarians, universal human rights, utopianism, Walter Isaacson, worldview}

In Explicating the “Greatest Sentence,” New Book Falls Short

_{Douglas Groothuis
March 26, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Political Science

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No naturalistic account of human life, rooted in Darwin’s purposeless evolution, has reason to account humans as special in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, Austin, birds, Chicxulub impact, coccolithophore, darkness, Darwinism, dinosaurs, ecosystems, evolution, fauna, fisheries, Geology (journal), geophysics, global catastrophe, global winter, helium-3, humans, innovations, intelligent agent, intelligent design, K-T extinction event, mammals, naturalism, plankton, researchers, Science and Culture Today, Science Daily, spines, sudden appearance, University of Texas}

After K–T Extinction Event, Life’s Unexpected Rebound Was “Ridiculously Fast”

_{Eric Hedin
March 26, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Although the welfare of plankton may not be at the very top of most people’s minds, these tiny organisms fill an important ecological niche. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abortion, atheists, Aztecs, Baal, biologists, boyfriend, Center for Science and Culture, deception, epiphany, feminists, Gone with the Wind, habitual knowledge, intelligent design, irrationality, J. Budziszewski, knowledge, libido, lightness, lunacy, materialists, motivated irrationality, Pandemic of Lunacy, particles, purity, rational minds, rationalizations, reconciliatory urge, Richard Lewontin, Romans, Scarlett O'Hara, scientific knowledge, sexual drive, Sigmund Freud, truth}

Motivated Irrationality: Why Even Smart People Swallow Crackpot Ideas

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 23, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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A critic will just fling out an objection, intelligent design thinkers will reply, and the reply is totally ignored. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, americans, apes, apotheosis, Carl Becker, Charles Darwin, Charles Merriam, Columbia University, Darwinian evolution, Declaration of Independence, education, endowed by our creator, environment, evolutionary racism, Founders, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, government, gravitation, Great Society, humanity, income, John Burgess, limited government, medical care, natural law, nature, Nature and Nature’s God, New Deal, New Jersey, New York City, Princeton University, progressives, Teutonic race, U.S. Constitution, United States, University of Chicago, Woodrow Wilson}

The Denial of Limited Government in the Name of Science

_{John G. West
March 23, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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Charles Darwin was honored for showing that the truths preached by the political philosophers had been substantiated by biological science. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 20, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, biochemical pathways, confidence, Eric Anderson, evolutionary process, explanatory power, generations, genes, homology, ID the Future, laboratory studies, mechanisms, medical engineers, mutations, Neo-Darwinism, organisms, podcast, Rob Stadler, survival, textbooks, two-mutation gap}

Rob Stadler on the “Low Confidence” Science of Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 20, 2026

Biology, Evolution

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Across experiments involving bacteria and yeast, researchers found that while evolution can occasionally fix a single point mutation. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 18, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, agnostics, atheists, biologists, careers, complexity, Curtis Hrischuk, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, endowed by our creator, equilibrium, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary jargon, Gregory Reeves, human engineers, information, John West, living things, Michael Egnor, narrative gloss, natural selection, nature, neurosurgeon, organisms, Philip Skell, physics, Science and Culture Today, Stuart Burgess, transcendent intelligent source}

Evolution: What Is in a Word? (Hint: Not Much)

_{Eric Hedin
March 18, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Physics

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Since the entire non-living universe contains far less information content than a single living cell, life presents an enigma to materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›