Tag: Charles Darwin

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, Aeon, August Weismann, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, epigenetics, eugenicists, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, internal changes, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jessica Riskin, living things, Napoleon, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, Reign of Terror, Scientific American, seals, The Power of Life, Weismann barrier}

Back to the Future with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 4, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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Lamarck believed that “all living beings are constantly transforming themselves” and thus life forms shape their own evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 2, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, anatomy, Artificial Selection, biblical literalism, Charles Darwin, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, digital code, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, fine-tuning, fossil record, Great Britain, ID the Future, Joseph Hooker, living cells, logic, magic wand, mathematics, Natural History of Creation, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Quarterly Review, religion, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, speculations, Stephen Meyer, superstition, Thomas Henry Huxley, universe}

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Samuel Wilberforce Critiques Darwin

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 2, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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Wilberforce notes, among other things, Darwin’s error in arguing that natural selection operates the same way as artificial selection. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, atheism, Charles Darwin, creativity, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary theory, free will, genes, Johns Hopkins, Modern Synthesis, Nathan Comfort, Nature (journal), On the Origin of the Species, organisms, Philip Ball, replicator, Richard Dawkins, Scientific American, selfishness, The Genetic Book of the Dead, The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene, vehicle}

For Dawkins, a Second Sour Publishing Anniversary

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 29, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Nathaniel Comfort stops just short of saying that Dawkins’s ideas should be pensioned off, along with himself. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amniotic sac, babies, bats, birds, Caribbean, caves, Charles Darwin, childbirth, Coast to Coast AM, coincidences, contralateral control, evolution, fish, George Noory, heart, humans, intelligent design, mammals, Monarch butterflies, mothers, natural selection, Oppenheimer’s Demon, pelvic bone bridge, pelvic muscles, reptiles, Stone Age, theism, Wizard of Oz}

Late Night Fun with Evolution and Oppenheimer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 28, 2026

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Bats by the millions would be falling from the roofs of caves if that ankle-locking design, an all-or-nothing proposition, had not come about all at once Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alvar Ellegård, Anglo-Saxons, Bishop Paulinus, Cerne Abbas Giant, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Coifi, creation, Darwinism, Eamon Duffy, Edwin King of Northumbria, England, English monarchy, Henry Allcott, Hermetic Society of the Golden Dawn, Madame Helena Blavatsky, Maximilien Robespierre, meaningfulness, natural selection, nobles, Origin of Species, Penda, philosophy, polytheists, Protestantism, Richard Dawkins, Rudolf Otto, Sir Charles Lyell, spiritualism, survival of the fittest, The Stripping of the Altars, Thomas Jefferson, Venerable Bede, Victorians, Wagnerian opera, William Judge}

The Darwinian Revolution: A Longer Historical Perspective

_{Neil Thomas
September 16, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

21}

It is well enough known that our remote ancestors, the Anglo-Saxons, were originally polytheists who had voyaged over the English Channel. Read More ›

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Date
September 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science & Culture
September 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Unlike Darwin, Wallace grew up among the middle class and had to work for a living. This dictated the contours of his life and research. Read More ›

Modern open-plan science laboratory with researchers in white coats working at workstations, bright natural light, 4k, Generative AI.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 2, 2026

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, amateurs, anti-science, authoritarianism, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, climate change, COVID, debate, Department of Health and Human Services, engineers, freedom of inquiry, government, Gregor Mendel, health-care workers, humankind, Jane Goodall, legislation, misinformation, Nature (journal), patients, registration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scientific inquiry, scientists, South Africa, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, transgenderism, vaccine skeptics}

Register Scientists with the Government? Top Journal Says Yes!

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 2, 2026

Scientific Freedom, Scientific Reasoning

4}

It would be a means of controlling who is allowed to “do” science and the ability to determine what can be communicated to the public. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Angraecum sesquipedale, Charles Darwin, Christoph Adami, coevolution, evolution, evolutionary theory, experiments, insects, Madagascar, natural selection, nectar, nectary, orchids, pollen, predictions, proboscis, sphinx moth, spur, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Orchids, Moths, and (Supposed) Evolutionary Predictions

_{Winston Ewert
August 26, 2026

Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

What Adami has actually done is taken a prediction that has nothing to do with evolution and attribute it to evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 18, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, adaptation, amoebas, Charles Darwin, Christoph Adami, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary experiments, evolutionary processes, experiments, fossil record, genes, genetics, heat-resistant variants, mechanisms, mutations, regulatory genes, Reverend William Dallinger, temperatures, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Lessons from Cooked Amoebas: The Dallinger Experiment

_{Winston Ewert
August 18, 2026

Evolution, Genetics

3}

Christoph Adami discusses work by Reverend William Dallinger, a contemporary of Charles Darwin. Read More ›

Highlighting central rod-shaped bacterium floating under microscope, with flagellum and pili

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, cells, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, children, Darwin Devolves, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, John West, Michael Behe, milestones, podcast, Stephen Meyer, The Edge of Evolution}

On a Special Anniversary, the Biochemical Challenge to Darwin Stands Strong

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 17, 2026

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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By intelligent design, you might say, August 1996 was the same month that John West and Stephen Meyer founded the Center for Science and Culture. Read More ›