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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Burmese amber, butterflies, cladistic analysis, cladogram, cockroach, convergence, Fossil Friday (series), Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lepidoptera, mimicry, paleontology, Trichoptera, unguided evolution, wing venation}

Fossil Friday: Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber

_{Günter Bechly
April 26, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Apart from this more general critique, are there any implications from these amber insects for intelligent design theory? You bet! 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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 6, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, An American Life, atheism, butterflies, Christians, Communism, faith and science, Galesburg, Greeks, Illinois, intelligent design, Jews, Jimmy Carter, John West, Mikhail Gorbachev, National Prayer Breakfast, order, Paul Johnson, purposefulness, Return of the God Hypothesis, Romans, Ronald Reagan, sculptor, sculpture, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, United States, Whittaker Chambers}

On Ronald Reagan’s Birthday, Let’s Appreciate His Debt — and Ours — to Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
February 6, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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President Reagan wrung a startling spiritual concession from his Communist counterpart — with an argument for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 29, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, An American Life, arms control, atheism, birds’ eggs, birthday, butterflies, capitalism, Christianity, Douglas Brinkley, evil empire, Galesburg, General Secretary, Greeks, Illinois, intelligent design, Jews, Jimmy Carter, Kremlin, Lessons My Father Taught Me, Mars, Michael Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow, Moslems, National Prayer Breakfast, notetaker, Otangelo Grasso, Paul Kengor, political freedom, Protestants, Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Red Square, Romans, Ron Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet Union, St. Catherine’s Hall, The Notes, The Reagan Diaries, U.S. Constitution, Ukrainian Catholics, Whittaker Chambers, Witness}

Ronald Reagan’s Deeply Personal Argument for Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
January 29, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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An untold story from the final year of Reagan’s Presidency about science, faith, and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, birds, butterflies, Chicxulub impact, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, evolution, Field Museum, flowering plants, frogs, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Israel, Jordan, Jurassic Park, Lebanon, mammals, Mars rover, orchids, Paleogene, Palestine, Patagonia, Penn State, pterosaurs, roses, Science Advances, storytelling, Syria, Turkey, UC Santa Barbara, University of Bath, worms}

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

_{David Coppedge
October 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Adrian Dyer, Air Force, beetles, bugs, butterflies, caterpillars, cockroaches, CUNY, Current Biology, ecosystems, flies, Metamorphosis, mollusks, Monash University, moths, Nature Communications, pollinators, proteins, snails, Space Force, spiders, University of Adelaide, wasps}

Intelligent Design in Unlovable Creatures

_{David Coppedge
September 13, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Between cells and humans, there are millions of "ugly duckling" species that are beautiful in their own way. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, animal phyla, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, Early Cretaceous, Eocene, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Mesozoic, moth}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

_{Günter Bechly
April 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, beetles, Brazil, butterflies, convergence, Crato Formation, Darwinism, design pattern, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, insects, intelligent design, Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lower Cretaceous, Lower Jurassic, mouthparts, natural selection, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, University of Tübingen}

Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

_{Günter Bechly
August 12, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, bacteria, butterflies, calcium carbonate, cryptochromes, Darwinian evolution, Developmental Dynamics, fruit flies, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Israel, Living Waters, Magnetosome Islands, magnetotactic bacteria, mapping, memory, otoconia, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, prokaryotes, Robert Fitak, Robert Wells, salmon, Secrets of the Cell, The Scientist, United Kingdom, University of South Florida}

For Navigating Animals, a Gift from Magnetotactic Bacteria

_{David Coppedge
April 29, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Nowhere do these scientists explain how bacteria invented magnetotaxis and encoded it into their genes. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal behavior, antennae, butterflies, Canada, circadian clock, compound eyes, evolution, genomes, intelligent design, latitude, lepidopterology, magnetic compass, Mexico, migration, milkweed, monarch butterfly, navigation, neurobiology, Stonehenge, sun compass, United States}

For Evolution, Monarch Butterfly Migration Is a Mystery

_{Eric Cassell
November 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It typically takes up to three generations of butterflies to make the complete journey. This means that the navigation information is genetically programmed. Read More ›