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Date
January 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, Canada, Eric Cassell, ethology, evolution, flies, Flight: The Genius of Birds, instinct, intelligent design, magnetic field, Mexico, Monarch butterflies, mosquitos, National Zoo, Nature (journal), navigation, olfaction, rats, Rockefeller University, sea turtles, Stephen Talbott}

Uncannily Organic: Navigation Is More than Genes

_{Science & Culture
January 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The capabilities of animals to know their positions and make corrections seem beyond the abilities of coded instructions or brain size. 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

_{Richard Weikart
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 ›

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Date
September 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, ants, arthropods, Caltech, Cornell University, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, evolution, intelligent design, mechanics, PNAS, soil, Stephen Meyer, superorganism}

Insects and Design: Ant and Honeybee Engineers

_{Science & Culture
September 23, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If you’ve ever watched ants busily tunneling in an ant farm, you may have noticed that the intricate finished product rarely collapses. Why is that? Read More ›

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Date
January 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alice in Wonderland, alleles, altruism, ants, behavior, behaviorism, bioRxiv, bonobos, cooperation, Darwinian theory, evolution, kin selection, lions, love, pandemic, slime molds}

How to Destroy Love with Darwinism

_{Science & Culture
January 11, 2021

Biology, Evolution

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When Darwin proposed a new view of biology based on chance, he cheapened everything, including our most precious human values. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ants, athletes, fire, Fire-Maker series, gravity, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Mass, muscles, Steven Vogel, vertebrates}

For Fire and More, Humans Are Designed to Have Just the Right Strength

_{Michael Denton
August 10, 2020

Intelligent Design

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How is it that an ant appears proportionately so much stronger than a trained human weight lifter? Read More ›

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Date
June 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ants, bacteria, bacterial cell division, biofilm, butterflies, cicadas, dragonflies, entomology, insects, intelligent design, Nature Communications, PNAS, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, stem cells, U.C. San Diego, University of Bristol, University of Illinois}

Intricate, Optimized Designs in Insects Beg a Question

_{Science & Culture
June 29, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The ingenious inventions found in insects summon us to ask: How did these small organisms get them? Read More ›

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Date
January 8, 2019

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, ants, Biomimetics, biomimicry, complexity, creativity, Darwinism, Francis Bacon, geckos, intelligent design, nature, peer review, PLOS ONE, Research, scientific revolutions}

Is Biology Approaching the Threshold of Design Acceptance?

_{Science & Culture
January 8, 2019

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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A recent biology paper inches up to the edge of design advocacy, without using the phrase “intelligent design.” Read More ›

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Date
December 13, 2018

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, ants, Apollo 8, astronauts, cancer, censorship, Christmas Eve, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmos, digital code, DNA, earth, Earthrise, economy, Genesis, molecular machines, Moon, NASA, protests, Racism, Roman Catholic, Sports, unemployment, violence, women}

Apollo 8 and Intelligent Design, Then and Now

_{Science & Culture
December 13, 2018

Physical Sciences

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Half a century ago, as 1968 came to a close, one event brought people together not only in America but also around the globe. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptive mutations, ants, bacteria, bacteriophages, BioEssays, Cell (journal), cetaceans, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, deletions, Eugene Koonin, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, geneticists, horizontal gene transfer, insertions, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bears, The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology, viruses}

Bacteriophages, Budding Yeast, and Behe’s Vindication

_{Ann Gauger
November 26, 2018

Evolution

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It’s been known for some time that bacteria evade antibiotics by mutating the target of the antibiotic, often at a cost to themselves. Read More ›

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Date
June 4, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, aliens, ants, Charles Darwin, evolution, Fred Hoyle, Giraffe, hammer, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, mantis shrimp, Nature (journal), octopuses, On the Origin of Species, panspermia, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, University of Bristol, University of Würzburg, vision}

These Creatures Would Give Darwin Shivers

_{Science & Culture
June 4, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin thought everything evolved from a simple cell by mindless chance processes. The animals don’t know that. Read More ›