Tag: Artificial Selection

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

_{Granville Sewell
June 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Darwin Mythology, Darwin's bulldog, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian theory, debates, Dogs, history, Oxford, pigeons, precambrian fossils, Quarterly Review, Richard Owen, theology, Thomas Henry Huxley}

What Really Happened at the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 26, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

14}

The stereotype portraying Wilberforce as the pompous bishop rejecting Darwin on theological grounds is easily dispelled. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Cnidaria, convergence, Current Biology, development, evolution, fallacy, Hydra, intelligence, intelligent design, jellyfish, natural selection, Nature Nanotechnology, Neural Networks, New Scientist, programmers, promissory note, purpose}

In Artificial and Biological Neural Networks, Intelligent Design Is Undeniable

_{David Coppedge
July 25, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

10}

Someday evolutionists might connect the dots. Right now, even simple nerve nets in jellyfish and hydra are remarkably well designed for what they do. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Bernard Kettlewell, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, evolution, Galápagos Islands, Hugo de Vries, industrial melanism, macroevolution, microevolution, mutations, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, peppered moths, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Top Scientific Problems with Evolution (series)}

NYU Scientists Confuse Artificial Selection with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

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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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 10, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Gopnik, Anglo-Saxons, Applied Eugenics, Artificial Selection, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Darwin Day, Darwin Deleted, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, eugenics, Europeans, extermination, humankind, On the Origin of Species, Paul Broca, Peter Bowler, racial equality, racial superiority, Racism, The Descent of Man, William Graham}

Darwin and Race: Three Strikes, He’s Out

_{Michael Flannery
February 10, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

7}

February is Black History Month, and this week, Friday, February 12, is Darwin Day — the birthday of Charles Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Metaphysics
Tagged
, act, anti-intellectualism, Aristotle, Artificial Selection, atheism, biological adaptation, censorship, Communism, Darwinism, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, evolution, Expelled (movie), Friedrich Engels, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, materialism, potency, purpose, synthesis, V.I. Lenin, violence}

Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology

_{Michael Egnor
September 22, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Metaphysics

6}

Nineteenth-century Darwinism was much more than a revolutionary scientific theory. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Artificial Selection, barnacles, Barry Gale, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, Charles Darwin, college students, Douglas Futuyma, Ecuador, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary theory, Fleeming Jenkin, Galápagos Islands, George Gaylord Simpson, John Gould, Loren Eiseley, materialistic science, methodological naturalism, neo-Darwinian synthesis, On the Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Strickberger’s Evolution, Thomas Huxley}

Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution

8}

Just because something can be counted as science does not automatically mean that it is true. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Gopnik, animal husbandry, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Artificial Selection, bacteria, Charles Darwin, doctors, evolution, evolutionary biology, health, infectious diseases, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Los Angeles, medical care, medical research, medicine, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, PZ Myers, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series), The New Yorker}

No, Despite Often-Heard Claims, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Is Not Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
April 10, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

5}

The treatment of infectious diseases with antibiotics is a superb example of intelligent design principles applied to medical research and human biology. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 30, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology”

_{Granville Sewell
October 30, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Origin of Life

6}

We still are not close to designing any self-replicating machine. That is still pure science fiction. Read More ›