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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 11, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, __edited, abrupt appearance, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwinism, En Arche Foundation, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, paleontology, Poland, waiting-time problem}

Paleontologist Günter Bechly: What We Mean by the Missing Transitional Fossil Forms

_{David Klinghoffer
December 11, 2019

Evolution, Paleontology

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Certainly, we find organisms that are “morphologically intermediate,” bearing resemblances to organisms that came before and others that came later. Read More ›

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Date
December 11, 2019

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, black holes, Natalie Wolchover, Nobel Prize, Paul Dirac, Quanta Magazine, quantum mechanics, Steven Weinberg, University of Amsterdam}

Are the Laws of the Universe “Inevitable”?

_{Science & Culture
December 11, 2019

Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

What is inevitable here is not the mathematical beauty of physical law, but the circumlocutions scientists use to evade design in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 10, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, American Association for the Advancement of Science, August Weismann, dialogue, economics, eugenics, evolutionary biology, evolutionary theory, gender, humanities, natural selection, race, religion, San Diego, science, Science (journal), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, sexuality, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theologians, theology}

On Doing Science Versus Understanding Science

_{Robert Shedinger
December 10, 2019

Evolution

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Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ashley Montagu wrote in 1947, “Race differences arise chiefly because of the differential action of natural selection on geographically separate populations.” Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, binding sites, BioEssays, DNA, ENCODE, evolution, genome, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, multicellular organisms, non-coding DNA, PNAS, The Myth of Junk DNA, transcription factors, transposable elements}

Jonathan Wells Was Right: Non-coding DNA Continues to Show Function

_{Science & Culture
December 10, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Design predictions rise as evolutionary assumptions fall. The junk DNA myth is, for all practical purposes, falsified. Read More ›

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Date
December 9, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, agnosticism, biological origins, Darwinism, David Berlinski, entropy, Europe, evolution, Human Nature (book), ID the Future, Jews, patriotism, Peter Robinson, podcast, science, Second Law of Thermodynamics, theism, Uncommon Knowledge}

David Berlinski on Europe, Entropy, Agnosticism

_{Science & Culture
December 9, 2019

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Berlinski tempts Peter Robinson to ask him whether he still considers himself an agnostic. Read More ›

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Date
December 9, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, blue whale, Caltech, cytoplasm, DNA, Escherichia coli, evolution, heart rate, intelligent design, machinery, marine biologists, nanotechnology, NOAA, Stanford University}

Whales, Bees, and Viruses: Intelligent Design from Biggest to Smallest

_{Science & Culture
December 9, 2019

Intelligent Design

8}

What’s bigger than a blue whale? Smaller than a virus? At the extremes and everywhere in between, life shows ingenious design. Read More ›

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Date
December 7, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, cooperation, David Berlinski, ID the Future, Nazis, Peter Robinson, podcast, Pope Benedict XVI, progress, theology}

Berlinski: Evolution Toward Virtue and Progress?

_{Science & Culture
December 7, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

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The Nazi Party, says David Berlinski, “was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, American Association for the Advancement of Science, biomimicry, creationism, Darwinian materialism, dialogue, Georgia, intelligent design, materialism, pastors, priests, religion, Rice University, San Diego, science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

Letter from San Diego: Science for Seminaries or Materialism for the Masses?

_{Robert Shedinger
December 6, 2019

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

I recently traveled to San Diego to attend the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, baby, children, conception, death, doctor, fertilization, fetus, gravity, heliocentrism, human beings, human development, human life, humanity, ideology, junk science, laymen, right to life, Twitter}

Dr. Gunter’s Junk Science on Abortion

_{Michael Egnor
December 6, 2019

Biology, Medicine

4}

An embryo is fully human, as is a fetus, a newborn, a toddler, a child, a teen, a mature adult and an elderly adult. Read More ›

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Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adaptive Radiation, Brigham Young University, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cornell University, Current Biology, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, genetic information, Harvard University, Heliconius, hybridization, intelligent design, introgression, Jonathan Wells, phylogenetic tree, PNAS, regulation, Science (journal), The Scientist}

Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversification by Non-Darwinian Mechanisms

_{Science & Culture
December 6, 2019

Evolution

6}

In butterfly “evolution,” new findings show mechanisms at work other than random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›