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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, birds, buoyancy, carbon, computers, flowers, form, function, hydrogen, insects, laboratories, life, Life Itself, microscopes, natural law, nature, nectar, nitrogen, oxygen, Plato, polar bears, pollinators, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, seals, shape, telescopes, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism, water, wood}

A Closer Look at Natural Law

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, birds, Darwinian evolution, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Evolution News, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Jurassic period, Microraptor, Occam's Razor, paleontology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

_{Günter Bechly
April 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Darwinists may have to say goodbye to some cherished assumed transitional forms and the evolutionary just-so stories built upon them. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
March 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, application, birds, bobcats, butterflies, capsids, deadline, deer, evolution, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, intelligent design, mice, molecules, nature, philosophers, qualia, Quanta, science, scientists, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers}

Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

_{Emily Sandico
March 5, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The setting is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines, and numberless critters, from deer to bobcats to garter snakes (I caught a cute one). Read More ›

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Date
February 25, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiologists, birds, Center for Science and Culture, conferences, cosmos, Discovery Institute, events, football field, Guillermo Gonzalez, hotels, insects, intelligent design, Jay W. Richards, North America, planets, registration, scientific discovery, sky, solar eclipses, stars, sunset, temperature, Texas, The Privileged Planet, total solar eclipse, totality, universe, Waxahachie}

You’re Invited! Get the Total Solar Eclipse Experience, April 7-8, in Waxahachie, TX

_{Science and Culture
February 25, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Beyond the sensory experience lies something even more astonishing — a cosmological coincidence of metaphysical significance to human existence. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, birds, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, Darwin’s God, evolution, fish, Galápagos Islands, intelligent design, natural history, natural selection, oceanic islands, On the Origin of Species, progressive creationism, seed dispersal, species, theology, universal common descent}

Darwin’s “God Wouldn’t Do It This Way” Argument

_{Robert Shedinger
February 20, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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A book widely hailed as proposing a true mechanism for evolution actually reads more like an anti-creationist polemic. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biosynthesis, birds, determinism, evolution, genetic drift, intelligent design, natural selection, Neil Thomas, Neo-Darwinism, Nepenthes, recruitment, Science (journal), stochasticity, The Design Inference, Your Designed Body}

Rescuing Chance for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
February 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When papers claim that Darwinism works by selecting unspecified and unplanned variations, do their best empirically studied examples demonstrate it? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 23, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Al Gore, behavior, Bill Clinton, birds, brain tissue, consciousness, Francis Crick, George Musser, human mind, materialism, neurons, New Scientist, organoids, proteins, Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, Trinity College Dublin}

Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 23, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, bats, birds, common design, convergent evolution, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, Europe, geomagnetic field, George McGhee, intelligent agents, magnetic compass, mammals, navigation, paleontologists, polarization, Royal Society, sunlight}

In Bats and Other Animals, Evidence of Common Design in a Magnetic Compass

_{Eric Cassell
January 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

There has been little data previously to confirm that mammals navigate long distances using the earth’s geomagnetic field. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, antitrochanter, birds, dinosaur-bird hypothesis, dinosaurs, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Hesperornis gracilis, iliac, ischium, Jurassic Park, Karlsruhe, Late Cretaceous, marine birds, microraptorids, paleontology, paleornithologists, penguins, phylogenetics, Temporal Paradox, theropod dinosaurs, troodontids, University of North Carolina, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds

_{Günter Bechly
January 5, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Alan Feduccia, birds, Darwinists, data, evolutionary biology, footprints, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, PLOS ONE, Poland, Temporal Paradox, theory, theropod dinosaurs, tiktaalik, University of Cape Town, Upper Triassic, Zachelmie}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Bird Tracks Expand the Temporal Paradox

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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The origin of birds involves a severe problem for Darwinists, which paleo-ornithologist Alan Feduccia has called a temporal paradox. Read More ›