Tag: cetaceans

^{Type
post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, Arctic, Aristotle, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, biosphere, blood-clotting cascade, blubber, cetaceans, Chance and Necessity, CHNOPS, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, duality, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, feathers, function, Jaques Monod, language, marine iguanas, Mass, Michael Behe, penguins, physical reality, property, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, structure, structure-function relationship, subject-object metaphysical framework, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism}

How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

7}

The duality of emergence and specified irreducible complexity must be discarded. In doing so, we create a framework compatible with Thomistic Aristotelianism. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, bears, blowhole, body temperature, calf (whale), cetaceans, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, diving, dolphin, Everhard Slijper, evolution, floating ribs, fluke, Indohyus, intelligent design, James Butler, lungs, mammals, milk, nipple, nitrogen, porpoise, Richard Brown, sea lion, sperm whale, submersion, surfactants, testes, the bends, whales}

From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

_{Jonathan Wells
October 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

10}

Critics laughed at this, and Darwin removed it from later editions of his book, though he continued privately to believe it. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, bears, blowhole, body temperature, calf (whale), cetaceans, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, diving, dolphin, Everhard Slijper, evolution, floating ribs, fluke, Indohyus, intelligent design, James Butler, lungs, mammals, milk, nipple, nitrogen, porpoise, Richard Brown, sea lion, sperm whale, submersion, surfactants, testes, the bends, whales}

From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

_{Jonathan Wells
May 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

10}

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 16, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptability, Alaska, Arizona, biologists, biosphere, birds, cars, cetaceans, Charles Darwin, designer, echolocation, elephants, evolution, fossil record, iguanas, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, kerosene, mammals, middle ear, natural selection, naturalists, penguins, physiology, polar bears, whales}

Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 16, 2023

Biochemistry, Biology, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

4}

In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cartorhynchus, cetaceans, Current Biology, Darwinian gradualism, dolphins, Early Eocene, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ichthyosaur, land mammals, Mesozoic, Neo-Darwinism, Nevada, New Scientist, Pakicetus, Permian-Triassic extinction, Science (journal), whales}

New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

_{Casey Luskin
February 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, African elephants, amphibians, Asian elephants, Avalon explosion, Bayesian reasoning, birds, body plans, bottlenose dolphin, Cambrian Explosion, cattle, cedars, cetaceans, chimpanzees, European common frog, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Genesis, gorilla, great apes, Homo sapiens, horse, house sparrow, humans, hybridization, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, marine iguanas, moor frog, pygmy hippo, reptiles, river hippo, spectacled bear, whale evolution}

Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists

_{Günter Bechly
April 25, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

21}

I consider this simple argument as a final nail in the coffin of Darwinian unguided evolution. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, airplane, arthropods, BIO-Complexity, cars, cetaceans, common ancestry, Didier Raoult, differential gene loss, evolution, gene regulation, gene regulatory networks, genetic information, incomplete lineage sorting, intelligent design, lateral gene transfer, mammals, neuroscientists, primates, rescaled consistency index, submarine, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, Therapsids, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert}

Engineering-Based Models Better Explain the Pattern of Nature than Does Common Ancestry

_{Brian Miller
December 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Eyes with lenses are believed to have evolved independently multiple times, but all evolutionary scenarios face insurmountable barriers. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Behe

Date
October 2, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Arizona State University, cetaceans, chloroquine resistance, Darwin Devolves, devolution, DNA, dolphins, evolution, gene loss, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Italy, macroevolution, malaria, microevolution, Paul Davies, Paul Nelson, Richard Lenski, University of Connecticut, University of Glasgow, whales}

Darwin Devolves — Evidence Keeps Rolling In

_{Michael Behe
October 2, 2019

Evolution

4}

The second paper is an in-depth look at genetic changes associated with the evolution of whales and dolphins. They found a lot of devolution. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 11, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animal welfare, Antarctica, cetaceans, ivory poaching, Japan, Russia, South Korea, whales}

Japanese Whaling and Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 11, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

3}

Japan has quit the International Whaling Commission so that it can resume commercial slaughter of leviathans. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
January 4, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, cetaceans, Charles Darwin, common ancestor, DNA, dolphins, education, fruit flies, humans, mice, molecular sequences, mutations, Nature (journal), neo-Darwinian theory, orphan genes, phylogeny, primates, Tree of Life, University of Utah, video, water fleas, whales, yeast}

Evolution Miseducation at the University of Utah

_{Jonathan Wells
January 4, 2019

Evolution, Science Education

4}

If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center. Read More ›