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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, birds, Charles Darwin, evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Granville Sewell, Günter Bechly, living fossils, mammals, Max Planck Institute, monocots, paleobotany, University of Tübingen, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

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All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", capitalism, cosmogenic myth, economics, evolution, laissez-faire, Michael Denton, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe}

Myth-Making and Malthus

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January 10, 2022

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After reading Malthus out of personal interest, it dawned on Darwin how he might usefully appropriate the Malthusian analogy. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Charles Darwin, divine image, eagle, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, lion, microscopes, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, whale}

The Legacy of Erasmus Darwin

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January 9, 2022

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Erasmus even touched on the theory of natural selection when he concluded that the strongest and most active animals would propagate the species. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Geology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biblical flood, catastrophism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, HMS Beagle, Homo sapiens, John Donne, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), naturalists, Noah’s Ark, Principles of Geology, Samuel Johnson, South Sea Islands, speciation, species, tortoise, transmutation, uniformitarianism}

Darwin’s John the Baptist

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January 8, 2022

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Catastrophism viewed the planet as having been molded by forces far more powerful than any observable at the present day. Read More ›

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Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Genetics
Medicine
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, China, CRISPR, eugenics, germline editing, Harvest House, He Jiankui, human dignity, ID the Future, podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Wesley J. Smith}

Sound the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing

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January 7, 2022

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As Wesley Smith explains, it’s not just that germline editing could lead to unintended health consequences. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, Greek gods, history, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Michael Neve, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Prometheus, South America, South Sea Islands, Travel}

The Evolution of Natural Selection

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January 7, 2022

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Remarkably, Darwin’s evolutionary ideas did not derive from his empirical observations in the South Seas or anywhere else. Read More ›

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Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Charles Thaxton, computer simulations, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, DNA, Eigen catastrophe, entropy, error catastrophe, evolution, intelligent design, interventions, mutation rate, natural selection, New York University, PNAS, randomness, Roger Olsen, science, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

NYU Scientists Confuse Artificial Selection with Darwinism

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January 7, 2022

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It should be obvious: if you are controlling the mutations and selecting the outcomes, you are not doing Darwinism. Read More ›

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Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atmosphere, biology textbooks, early Earth, Eric Anderson, experiments, Harold Urey, ID the Future, Jonathan Wells, Miller-Urey experiment, podcast, Stanley Miller, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Chicago}

A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

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January 6, 2022

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It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, evolution, intelligent design, light bulb, molecular biology, molecular machines, motility, natural selection, propulsion, proteins, specifications, Waldean Schulz}

Third Paper Presenting an Engineering Analysis of the Flagellum Makes the Case for Intelligent Design

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January 6, 2022

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A diagram in the paper — showing interactions in terms of engineering schematics — is unlike any description of the flagellum that I’ve seen. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ecology
Ethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ants, behavior, Charles Darwin, entomologists, evolution, human behavior, humans, meaning, morality, On the Origin of Species, physiology, purpose, religion, sociobiology, spirit, worldview}

Remembering E. O. Wilson and Sociobiology

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January 4, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Ecology, Ethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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"Wilson is — if his worldview is correct — just as much living a lie as those religionists that he castigates." Read More ›