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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Animal Algorithms, birds, convergent evolution, Current Biology, Design Inference, Eric Cassell, evolution, intelligent design, lobsters, migration, mollusks, sea turtles, synchrony}

The Elephant Seal in the Room

_{David Coppedge
March 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You’ve heard about salmon, whales, and sea turtles. Now learn what the clumsy-looking elephant seal accomplishes navigation-wise. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Africa, Americas, camera eye, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, convergent evolution, evolution, homology, human beings, octopuses, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, Top Scientific Problems with Evolution (series), UC Berkeley}

New Mode of Flight Found in Tiny Beetle

_{David Coppedge
February 3, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A millimeter-sized beetle flies efficiently with feathery wings and a beat mode not seen before. Did it evolve by natural selection? Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", blind spot, common descent, convergent evolution, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionists, humans, intelligent design, junk science, Müller cells, Nathan Lents, neurons, photoreceptors, Richard Dawkins, squid, St. George Jackson Mivart}

Why Junk Design Arguments Are Junk Science

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Examples of so-called “convergent” evolution are ubiquitous, including the camera eye design shared by the squid and human. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, blind natural forces, Casey Luskin, convergent evolution, Eric Cassell, evolution, genetic changes, ID the Future, insects, intelligent design, No Free Lunch theorems, podcast, purpose, spider silk, spiders, teleology, William A. Dembski}

Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
January 3, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors? Read More ›

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Date
November 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, convergent evolution, elections, evolution, evolutionary theory, fur, intelligent design, opossum, Robin Williams}

Biofluorescence in the Platypus — Design at Its Whackadoodliest

_{Science & Culture
November 5, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Those paragraphs are, not surprisingly, a de rigueur nod to evolutionary theory, and as usual, it's pure gloss, no substance. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 8, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, convergence, convergent evolution, Darwinism, engineer, Ernst Mayr, flowering plants, François Jacob, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, St. George Jackson Mivart, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks}

Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 8, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Read More ›

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Date
May 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, convergent evolution, evolution, ID the Future, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, Lee Spetner, MIT, podcast}

Lee Spetner on Convergent and Non-Random Evolution

_{Science & Culture
May 31, 2020

Evolution

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Dr. Spetner challenges the idea of convergent evolution and explains his non-random evolutionary hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, animation, bats, Center for Science and Culture, convergent evolution, Darwinists, David Berlinski, dolphins, echolocation, fossil record, fruit flies, ghost lineages, homology, humor, James Shapiro, Jonathan Wells, macroevolution, microevolution, Pakicetus, random mutations, Richard Sternberg, Robert Crowther, testes, Theodosius Dobzhansky, waiting-time problem, whales}

Whale of a Webinar Debuts a Delightful “Long Story Short” Video

_{David Klinghoffer
April 23, 2020

Evolution

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Whales are held up as a model of what unguided evolution can do in a short time: in this case, just 8 million years, or perhaps even half that. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
October 23, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, alleles, Andreas Wagner, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, bottleneck, Broad Institute, chimpanzees, convergent evolution, Dennis Venema, first couple, Francisco Ayala, genes, human genome, human origins, Immune System, intelligent design, macaques, Ola Hössjer, Peaceful Science, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science and Human Origins, Steve Schaffner}

A First Couple? Here’s the Backstory

_{Ann Gauger
October 23, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Could humanity have had its origin in a first pair, or did it have to come from a population of at least several thousand? Read More ›