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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Discovery Institute, intelligent design, Kenya, Lake Victoria, Michael Behe, Nazis, Phillip E. Johnson, racists, Richard Weikart, South Africa, Summer Seminars, Travel, undergraduates}

Discovery Institute Speakers Get a Hearty Reception in Africa

_{Casey Luskin
October 11, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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At the University of Eldoret, in Kenya, we were greeted with — no joke — a band and a red carpet. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, fire, fossil record, Homo sapiens, human intelligence, human origins, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Science Daily, University of Liverpool}

Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back into the Mid-Pleistocene

_{Casey Luskin
September 20, 2023

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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This rare find shows that some of the very human-like forms in the fossil record were actually much smarter than we thought. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 25, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), monkeys, New World monkeys, Paleogene, Powerball, reptiles, seafaring, South America, storytelling}

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

_{Günter Bechly
August 25, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, Animal Algorithms, astrobiology, atheism, convergent evolution, design filter, Eric Cassell, evolution, hexagons, intelligent design, intuition, PLOS Biology, radio signals, Return of the God Hypothesis, SETI, The Conversation, UAPs, UC Berkeley, UFOs, Utah}

In Explanations Reported by Mainstream Science, Design Inference Continues to Factor

_{David Coppedge
July 31, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Speaking of regularly spaced circles, I observed something similar in southern Utah from a helicopter in 2019 (see the photo at the top). Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptive mutations, Africa, Darwin Devolves, Dave Farina, de novo genes, evolution, evolutionary change, evolutionary theory, François Jacob, genes, hemoglobin, intelligent design, Long Term Evolution Experiment, malaria, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, New York City, non-coding DNA, Professor Dave Explains, Richard Lenski, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 28, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Despite Mr. Farina’s smug condescension and patronizing demeanor, he fails to mount a credible critique of Dr. Behe’s thesis. Read More ›

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Date
May 7, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Africa, Biomimetics, bird feathers, birds, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, feathers, Flight, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, males, MIT, nest, Science and Faith in Dialogue, water}

Sandgrouse Takes the Royal Society to Design School

_{Science & Culture
May 7, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Episode guest Brian Miller talks with host Casey Luskin about the details of the ingenious design. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Africa, bacteria, Biomimetics, birds, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinists, evolution, human history, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, lawyers, Michael Behe, NASA, Olufemi Oluniyi, shopping, Social Darwinism, vitalism}

Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

_{David Coppedge
March 29, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Science

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An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, Bible, Cambridge University, Christianity, COVID-19, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute, New York Times, Olufemi Oluniyi, Scotland, Seattle, Social Darwinism, Summer Seminars, University of Edinburgh}

My Friend Olufemi Oluniyi and Darwin’s Legacy in Nigeria

_{John G. West
February 28, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

5}

Olufemi opened my eyes and heart to the importance of Nigeria to Africa, the dynamic role of Christians there, and the importance of Africa to the world. Read More ›

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Date
February 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, culture, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute Press, Great Britain, history, imperialism, John West, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, Racism, Social Darwinism, Summer Seminar}

John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa

_{Science & Culture
February 22, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›

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Author
Olufemi Oluniyi

Date
February 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Africa, Africans, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, colonialism, Darwin Comes to Africa, ethnicity, Europe, Europeans, evolution, historiography, Joseph Stalin, morality, natural selection, Nigeria, pseudoscience, race, Racism, random mutation, religion, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, tiger}

The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria

_{Olufemi Oluniyi
February 21, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Genetics

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Social Darwinism rests like a tiger moth on Darwinism, its mother theory; when challenged with facts, it just flits to a slightly different position. Read More ›