Tag: August Weismann

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, anticipation, August Weismann, Bible, biosphere, building blocks, causation, Chance and Necessity, chipmunks, cognition, Design Inference, DNA, electromagnetism, Ferrari, final cause, flowering plants, Ford Mustang, Francis Crick, grizzly bear, immanent power, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, James Hutchison Stirling, Jaques Monod, natural selection, natural theology, necessity, nectar, perch, pollinators, purpose, representational directedness, rodent, science of purpose, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, tuna, William A. Dembski, wolf}

Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 31, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, August Weismann, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, group selection, James G. Lennox, John Hedley Brooke, Michael Ghiselin, Michael Ruse, mythology, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley}

A New Scholarly Book Trying to Debunk Myths about Charles Darwin and His Theory

_{Richard Weikart
December 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Some debunkers need to be debunked themselves, because instead of correcting falsehoods, they end up creating or perpetuating falsehoods. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 28, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, August Weismann, bacterial infection, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, Charles Darwin, Costa Rica, fairy tales, fish, limpets, multicellular organisms, natural selection, rainforest, sea floor, snakes, Strickberger’s Evolution}

The Fairy Tale World of an Evolution Textbook

_{Robert Shedinger
July 28, 2020

Evolution, Science Education

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Endothermy may have advantages over ectothermy, but I wouldn’t advise taking your chances by picking up a poisonous snake. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
June 3, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Africans, August Weismann, Bernie Sanders, Charles Darwin, Christianity, coronavirus, critical race theory, Darwinism, Douglas Futuyma, epistemological humility, evolution, intelligent design, liberalism, materialism, pandemic, patriarchy, Protestantism, Racism, religion, Ronald Fisher, stereotype, theology, white supremacy}

Confessions of a Liberal Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
June 3, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Never has it been more important to look beyond a superficial materialist worldview and see our lives again in a transcendent framework. 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, Ashley Montagu, August Weismann, dialogue, economics, eugenics, evolutionary biology, evolutionary theory, gender, humanities, Ibram X. Kendi, 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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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 16, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, August Weismann, Barry Hall, blasphemy, central dogma, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, dogmatism, evidence, Francis Crick, heresy, ideology, John Cairns, Lamarckian theory, Luther College, Lutherans, Martin Luther, Matti Leisola, Max Delbrück, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orthodoxy, Richard Lenski, Roman Catholic, Ronald Fisher, Salvador Luria, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

The Ideological Nature of Darwinian Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 16, 2019

Evolution

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Orthodoxy and heresy are not synonyms for true and false, and sometimes the truth might lie with the heretics. Read More ›