Category: Biology

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured1, arguments, causal adequacy, cosmic fine-tuning, digital information, DNA, evidence, explanations, God of the gaps, ignorance, information, intelligent cause, intelligent design, materialistic processes, mind, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, specified information, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, understanding}

Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, Australia, Bauplans, blueprints, body plans, Cladotheria, echidnas, evolution, families, fossil record, geological record, marsupials, Multituberculata, neo-Darwinian evolution, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, platypuses, predictions, Prototheria, punctuated equilibrium, stasis, Stephen Jay Gould, Symmetrodonta, Tom S. Kemp, Triconodonta}

From Australia’s Fossil Record, an Evolutionary Puzzle

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
October 6, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Historical Sciences

3}

In the present article, the most important result is this: All extant Australian marsupial families are also known from the fossil record. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Genetics
Tagged
, Abraham, Abram, Albert Jay Nock, America, Ashkenazi Jews, assaults, baitings, biology, boycott, Bronx, Brooklyn, calendar, Candace Owens, COVID-19, Darwinism, economists, Europe, Federal Government, Gaza, genetics, Holocaust Encyclopedia, human biology, human genome, incitements, intimidations, Iran, Israel, Jackson Heights, Jeremy Boreing, Jewish Question, Jews, Judaism, Khazars, lockdowns, Mike Huckabee, monologue, National Review, New Testament, Nowhere Doctrine, Nuremberg Code, Old Testament, picketings, prisoners of war, science, soapbox speeches, Soviet Jews, Soviet Union, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Monthly, theology, Tucker Carlson, William F. Buckley Jr., Yorkville}

Science, Science Abuse, and Today’s “Jewish Question”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 30, 2026

Biology, Ethics, Genetics

6}

Tucker Carlson has called for everyone in Israel to have a DNA test, to sort out the real from the false of “Abram's descendants.” Read More ›

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Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Ars Technica, brain, designer, engineering, evolution, forebrain, hindbrain, John Timmer, midbrain, Nature (journal), nervous system, neurons, neuroscience, reptilian brain, signaling molecules, skin, Stanford University, tail, Tudor Tarita, two brains, vertebrates, ZME Science}

Remarkable Engineering and the “Two Brains” Myth

_{Science & Culture
September 28, 2026

Biology, Engineering, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Did two brains evolve into one? This is not a left brain/right brain thing. It is more like claims for a reptilian brain underlying our mammalian one. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
September 18, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Matter of Time, agency, agent theory, Amahury J. Lopez-Diaz, biology, Carlos Gershenson, Denis Walsh, environments, Everything Flows, evolutionary biology, evolutionary theory, goal, intelligent design, intentionality, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, means, metaphysics, naturalism, Newtonian physics, objectcy, ontology, repertoire, requirement, science of purpose, scientism, synthetic realization, teleology, thermodynamics, University of Toronto}

Agency as the Emerging Naturalist Paradigm

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 18, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

8}

Jaques Monod, along with other champions of 20th-century scientism, was entirely mistaken. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
September 1, 2026

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, androgens, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ari Berkowitz, biological sex, biologists, biology, body hair, brain size, breast size, Caster Semenya, chromosomes, clitoris, Colin Wright, Department of Health and Human Services, eggs, embryo, evolutionary biologists, female, gender, genitals, hormones, Howard Glicksman, intersex, labia, Leonard Sax, male, muscular strength, ovaries, primary sex traits, reproduction, reproductive tissues, secondary sex traits, sex cells, sex realism, sperm, Steve Laufmann, testes, Testis Determining Factor, The Binary Delusion, The Conversation, Too Fast to Be a Woman?, University of Oklahoma, urethra, voice pitch, waist-to-hip ratio, Y chromosome, Your Designed Body}

The Non-Binary Delusion: A Biologist’s Attempt to Escape Reality

_{Terrell Clemmons
September 1, 2026

Biology, Medicine

10}

Most people understand that secondary sex characteristics can vary, but Ari Berkowitz leaps beyond this uncontroversial observation. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, Annaka Harris, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, biochemists, caterpillar, cats, cells, cocooning, cognition, Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, consciousness, Dogs, dying, environments, Epoch Times, evolution, glutamate, hierarchy, horses, human nervous system, iai.tv, James Shapiro, leaves, Makai Elías Calles, mating, natural selection, neurons, neurotransmitters, octopus, plant consciousness, plants, self-awareness, stripping fruit trees, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago}

Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2026

Biology, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, amoebas, avida, bacteria, biological information, brains, cells, Christoph Adami, citrate, crystallin, Darwinian evolution, E. coli, evolution, flasks, intelligent design, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, Michigan State University, oxygen, Podarcis siculus, population, pre-existing information, recycling, Richard Lenski, temperatures, The Evolution of Biological Information, Tierra, UC Irvine, viruses}

Origin of Biological Information? Nope, Just Its Recycling

_{Winston Ewert
August 25, 2026

Biology, Evolution

3}

Followers of the debate between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution will be familiar with Christoph Adami's example. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 24, 2026

Categories
Biology
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, avida, biological systems, biology, chaperone, Christoph Adami, crystallin, Darwinian evolution, experiments, eye evolution, function, letters, mutation rate, proteins, The Evolution of Biological Information, vertebrate eye}

Avida and Making Eye Evolution Seem Plausible

_{Winston Ewert
August 24, 2026

Biology, Computational Sciences, Evolution

4}

Adami says, “it is hard not to see the parallels to other evolutionary innovations, for example the co-option of the existing crystallin protein in the eye.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 22, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Africa, beneficial mutations, biology, C-Harlem, cellular networks, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Dave Farina, de novo genes, degradation, Educating Dave Farina (series), evolution, expression, generation time, genetics, information, insults, loss-of-function, Michael Behe, misrepresentations, name-calling, neofunctionalization, neutral mutations, non-coding DNA, population genetics, probabilistic resources, protein folding, pseudogenes, purifying selection, strawman, The Edge of Evolution, unguided processes, YouTubers}

Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 22, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Genetics

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Farina’s response to my previous series is characterized by misrepresentations, selective engagement, and reliance on insults and name-calling. Read More ›