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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, air conditioning, aspirin, bacteria, blood vessels, body heat, body temperature, brain, catalysis, chills, enzymes, evolution, fever, heat, hypothalamus, infection, inflammation, intelligent design, muscle tone, muscles, neurons, ovens, skin, sweating, temperature, thermostats, white blood cells}

In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 26, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The existence of thermostatic control of our body temperature is not at all surprising supposing life to be the product of a purposeful engineer. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 22, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, biological diversity, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, front-loaded design, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, interviews, podcast, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, Stephen Dilley, theologians}

Can Evolution and Intelligent Design Be Happily Wedded?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 22, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Casey Luskin kicks off a series of interviews responding to theologian Dr. Rope Kojonen’s proposal. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, correspondence, Darwin’s Bluff, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Günter Bechly, history, ID the Future, Neil Thomas, On the Origin of Species, paleontologists, podcast, Robert Shedinger, scholars, scientific evidence}

Darwin and the Mystery of the Missing Evidence

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 20, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Charles Darwin continually promised his “big book” full of missing evidence to many of his correspondents but failed to deliver it. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemists, biologists, Charles Darwin, DNA, evolution, function, genome, graduate students, How Life Works, ignorance, intelligent design, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nature (journal), null hypothesis, Philip Ball, postdocs, researchers, science journals, science writers, University of Toronto}

With One Short Rule, Philip Ball Explains Why “Junk DNA” May Be a Placeholder for Ignorance

_{Paul Nelson
February 20, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Here is Ball’s proposed rule for molecular biologists: “stop assuming,” he writes, “we know which parts of DNA matter and which don’t.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agency, BioEssays, blueprint, Brian Miller, Bruce Alberts, Cell (journal), computers, Denis Noble, Dennis Venema, diseases, DNA, Douglas Axe, evolution, factory, genes, genomes, How Life Works, intelligent design, intrinsically disordered proteins, junk DNA, machines, Nature (journal), organisms, paradigm shift, Philip Ball, proteins, purpose, RNA genes, traits, transformers}

Denis Noble in Nature: “Time to Admit Genes Are Not the Blueprint For Life”

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In his review, Noble comes right out and says that “Classic views of evolution should also be questioned.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, apoptosis, Charles Darwin, circulation, Current Biology, digestion, Drosophila melanogaster, evolution, feedback control, Flight, fruit flies, intelligent design, jointed appendages, natural selection, neurons, Nobel Prize, odors, PLOS Biology, saccades, Stephen Crane, timing}

Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin

_{David Coppedge
February 15, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Don’t swat too quickly! There’s more awe in that little fly than might be apparent from a cursory glance. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, common sense, continuity, design detection, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, evolution, fauna, flora, hummingbird, intelligent design, intuition, laws of nature, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theist on the street, theistic evolution}

Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”

_{Stephen Dilley
February 14, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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On Rope Kojonen's model, she no longer has grounds to trust her common-sense intuition of the design of the eagle’s eye. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, mutations, natural selection, naturalists, On the Origin of Species, podcast, Robert Shedinger}

Darwin’s Bluff: Peeling Back the Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Tucked away in Darwin’s surviving papers is a manuscript of almost 300,000 words that he continually promised to others but never completed or published. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biosynthesis, birds, determinism, evolution, genetic drift, intelligent design, natural selection, Neil Thomas, Neo-Darwinism, Nepenthes, recruitment, Science (journal), stochasticity, The Design Inference, Your Designed Body}

Rescuing Chance for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
February 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When papers claim that Darwinism works by selecting unspecified and unplanned variations, do their best empirically studied examples demonstrate it? Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abstract, Asa Gray, biographers, Bridgewater Treatises, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Darwinian mechanism, developmental biology, epigenetics, evolution, genomics, hagiography, mythology, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, orchids, paleontology, punctuation, Theodosius Dobzhansky, variation, Victorian period}

Does the World Need Another Book About Darwin?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 13, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We need to let Darwin speak for himself. It turns out that Darwin, given the opportunity, is quite capable of dismantling his own mythology. Read More ›