“Life All the Way Down”: Stephen Talbott’s Biological Vision

_{Tom Bethell
March 9, 2012

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Organisms are wholes and cannot be thought of as assembled in machine-like fashion. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 9, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, common descent, evolution, natural selection, neutrinos, Raymond Tallis, science, speed of light}

Nature Affirms “No Theory Is Too Special to Question”

_{Casey Luskin
March 9, 2012

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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Physicists were open to challenging one of their most precious theories. Why not biologists? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 5, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, common ancestry, common descent, epigenetics, evolution}

Parallel Host and Parasite Phylogenies: Do They Imply Common Ancestry?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 5, 2012

Evolution

1}

Consider this diagram -- or "tanglegram" -- representing the parallel phylogenies yielded by pocket gophers and their lice parasites. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 4, 2012

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, common ancestry, common descent, evolution, Huffington Post, Johannes Kepler}

Huffington Post Attacks Intelligent Design by Citing ID Advocate Johannes Kepler

_{Casey Luskin
January 4, 2012

Intelligent Design

6}

If intelligent design is dead, why do critics have to keep killing it? Read More ›

^{Type
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 1, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, common descent, evolution, intelligent design, Jack Scanlan, Karl Giberson, nature, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Wikipedia}

Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Observed Natural Selection

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 1, 2011

Evolution

1}

The online encyclopedia triumphantly points to resistance to myxoma virus among Australian rabbits as one piece of evidence, among others, for common descent. Read More ›

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Date
November 29, 2011

Categories
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Centre for Intelligent Design UK, common descent, evolution, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, World}

Welcomed by Lord Mackay, Meyer Speaks in London to Centre for Intelligent Design UK

_{Science and Culture
November 29, 2011

Life Sciences

1}

In Britain it can be no less dangerous to publicly voice sympathy for ID than it is in the United States. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
October 31, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, biogeography, butterflies, common descent, evolution, Metamorphosis, nebulae, stars, Wikipedia}

Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Biogeographical Distribution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
October 31, 2011

Evolution

1}

When the biogeographical data does not fit with the predictions and expectations of common descent, one always has "oceanic dispersal" at the ready to serve as an ad hoc fudge factor -- including the rather remarkable claim that monkeys made it across the Atlantic from Africa to South America! Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 24, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, biogeography, common descent, Eugenie Scott, evolution, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Racism, video, Wikipedia}

A Weirdly Naked Appeal to Racism from the National Center for Science Education?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 24, 2011

Evolution

1}

The NCSE is a group that wants to help soften up the religious community on behalf of Darwinian evolution. And this was their bright idea on how to do it? Wow. Read More ›

Fossil of the prehistoric bird Archeopteryx

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
October 23, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, __nedited, Archaeopteryx, body plans, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, common descent, Darwin, diversification, evolution, evolutionary biology, extinction, fact check, fossil record, fruit flies, horse evolution, horses, Metamorphosis, microevolution, paleontology, phylogeny, suppressed evidence, tiktaalik, whale evolution, Wikipedia}

Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Paleontology

_{Jonathan McLatchie
October 23, 2011

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fossil record, far from establishing Darwinian theory, only succeeds in hammering one more nail into Darwin's coffin. Read More ›

Blood vessels. Circulatory system. Veins and arteries. Generative AI.

^{Type
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
October 13, 2011

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Tagged
, __nedited, "poor design", amphibians, atavisms, cladistics, common ancestry, common descent, comparative anatomy, convergent evolution, developmental biology, embryology, embryonic development, evidence for evolution, fact check, homologies, nested hierarchy, Nobel Prize, phylogenetic analysis, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, taxonomy, vestigial structures, Wikipedia}

Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Anatomy

_{Jonathan McLatchie
October 13, 2011

Anatomy, Evolution

19}

The argument from evolutionary developmental biology and embryonic development is probably one of the stronger for common descent. But I'm not convinced. Read More ›