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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adaptation, berries, birds, carnivores, cattle, chance, cows, drinking, ecosystem, evolution, fish, food, gills, goats, grasses, grazing, herbivores, horses, human intelligence, hummingbirds, intelligent design, krill, livestock, molecules, natural selection, nectar, nuts, prey, seeds, sheep, water, winter, zooplankton}

Ecosystems — A Tribute to Intelligent Design, or to Chance and Adaptation?

_{Eric Hedin
August 30, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Thinking about all the species of animals, birds, and fishes, it becomes apparent that each one requires a certain type of food, suitable for its anatomy. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, Casey Luskin, CELS, Charles Darwin, Darwinian mechanism, Eric Anderson, evolution, finch beaks, ID the Future, intelligent design, macroevolution, microevolution, natural selection, peppered moths, podcast, unguided evolution}

Is Adaptation Actually a Fight to Stay the Same?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 26, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin pointed to small changes like finch beak size and peppered moth color as visible evidence of an unguided evolutionary process at work. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adaptation, DNA, epigenetics, evolutionary theory, fruit flies, genes, natural selection, offspring, organisms, random mutation, teleology, The Scientist, twins}

Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences

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Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 16, 2021

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", adaptation, animals, behavior, biosphere, blind evolution, brown bears, Charles Darwin, convergence, dysteleology, evolution, homology, intelligent design, junk DNA, Life Sciences, microevolution, polar bears, Systems Biology, The Design Revolution, vestigial structures, William A. Dembski, William Paley}

Complex Programmed Behaviors — Intelligently Designed

_{Eric Cassell
December 16, 2021

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Some discriminators don’t get us very far in deciding which is the better explanation between blind evolution and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 14, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, cichlid fish, engineered systems, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic diversity, information, Lake Malawi, Lake Victoria, mutation rate, natural genetic engineering, phenotypic plasticity}

Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
October 14, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Cichlid variation do not primarily originate from random mutations but from engineered systems. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 20, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, brain, cave fish, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, evolution, hurricane, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Mother Nature, natural selection, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, William Paley}

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Has Left a Legacy of Confusion over Biological Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
September 20, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 31, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design logic, engineers, fitness, fitness landscape, genes, genotype, intelligent design, living systems, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, physiology}

Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
August 31, 2021

Anatomy, Engineering, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Read More ›

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Date
June 4, 2021

Categories
Genetics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adaptation, Crete, Darwinian evolution, DNA, entropy, intelligent design, Jerusalem, Masada, North Africa, Qumran, Science Advances, seeds}

Resurrection Genomics: Millennia-Old Palm Trees Live Again

_{Science & Culture
June 4, 2021

Genetics, Life Sciences

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Seeds of date palms from the Judean desert, over 2,000 years old, have sprouted and grown into healthy trees. What can we learn from their genes? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, adaptation, bacteria, Biola University, brown bears, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, homeschoolers, intelligent design, lectures, molecular biologists, quizzes, unguided evolution}

Axe: Why Darwinists Hope You Don’t Know Math

_{David Klinghoffer
May 13, 2021

Evolution, Mathematics

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Mathematics has been at the foundation of modern challenges to neo-Darwinism, while those challenges are met mostly with handwaving. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, ancient Greeks, cognition, Darwinists, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, homeostasis, intelligent design, Neo-Darwinism, physiology, Purpose and Desire, Scott Turner, State University of New York}

Scott Turner: New Video Series on His Model for Evolution

_{Brian Miller
April 12, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin’s ideas have become a flashpoint in the culture, so any discussion of the science can easily become highly polarized and politicized. Read More ›