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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
August 10, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", compound eye, computers, convergent evolution, cornea, evolution, eye, functional specification, Golgi apparatus, Human, intelligent design, iris, lens, mitochondria, nucleus, optic nerve, programming, retina, Ribosome, visual cortex}

Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

_{Walter Myers III
August 10, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 19, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Afrotheria, bats, BIO-Complexity, cladogram, common ancestry, convergent evolution, dependency graph, differential gene loss, dolphins, echolocation, evolutionary model, intelligent design, lateral gene transfer, Laurasiatheria, Mammalia, molecular sequences, most recent common ancestor, Therapsids, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert}

BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature

_{Brian Miller
July 19, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One of the central pillars of the standard evolutionary model is the belief that all living species evolved from a common ancestor through a gradually unfolding tree of life. Read More ›

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Date
March 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bats, coding, common design, convergent evolution, Darwinian theory, Douglas Axe, evolution, homoplasy, intelligent design, mutations, ORfan genes, plagiarism, PLOS Computational Biology, polynomial, pseudogenes, Richard Wagner, S. Joshua Swamidass, skulls, testes, Washington University, whale evolution, whales, World War I}

Of Whales and Timescales

_{Science and Culture
March 20, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The changes involved in adapting a generic mammalian template into a whale are certainly not all simple, independent, single-letter changes. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
March 5, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, alleles, Andreas Wagner, Asli Vahdat, BioLogos, bottleneck, Broad Institute, convergent evolution, Dennis Venema, DNA, Francisco Ayala, genotype, haplotypes, HLA genes, HLA-DRB1, homoplasy, human leukocyte antigen, intelligent design, Jan Klein, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Steve Schaffner, theistic evolution, trans-species polymorphism, University of London, Washington University}

Is There a First Human Couple in Our Past? New Evidence and Arguments

_{Ann Gauger
March 5, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 22, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, body plans, common descent, convergent evolution, Elliott Sober, embryonic development, gene expression, genes, homoplasy, Lewis Carroll, organs, Thomas Henry Huxley}

How Embryonic Development Bears on Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 22, 2018

Evolution, Life Sciences

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In order for evolution to have occurred as the orthodox theory describes, the intricate embryonic development stages of species must have evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
December 22, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Bilateria, convergent evolution, evolution, journalism, nature, Research, science, science reporting}

Evolutionists: Our Findings Suggest Similarities in Bilateria Evolved Independently

_{Cornelius Hunter
December 22, 2017

Evolution

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The claim that they found that the expression of dorsoventral transcription factors evolved independently in certain bilaterian lineages is not even wrong. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
September 10, 2017

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, chimpanzees, Chromosomal Fusion, classes, common ancestry, common descent, common design, convergent evolution, Darwinism, evolution, human evolution, intelligent design, Jaguar, junk DNA, Mustang, Neo-Darwinism, phyla, species}

Common Descent or Common Design? An Exercise in Question-Begging

_{Jonathan Witt
September 10, 2017

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Darwinists point to similarities across species, classes, and phyla, and argue that this shows we’re all descended from a common ancestor. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 5, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bats, convergent evolution, Darwinian theory, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, ID the Future, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, Lee Spetner, Non-Random Evolutionary Hypothesis, Not by Chance, phylogenetic tree, stress, The Evolution Revolution, whales}

“Convergent Evolution Is Even More Improbable than Evolution Itself”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 5, 2017

Evolution

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Lee Spetner says of convergent evolution that it explains nothing but is simply a case of “giving a name to our ignorance.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 21, 2017

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, __edited, Adam Frank, Aristotle, change, convergent evolution, David Klinghoffer, electron, form, individuation, intelligibility, materialism, matter, mind-body problem, quantum mechanics, science, Werner Heisenberg}

What Is Matter? The Aristotelian Perspective

_{Michael Egnor
July 21, 2017

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Science

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Writing here yesterday, I pointed out the problems with materialist metaphysics. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
April 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, bats, convergent evolution, Darwin, Dennis Venema, Doppler effect, echolocation, evolution, Warfare Thesis, whales}

Echolocation…Solved?

_{Cornelius Hunter
April 20, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences, Science

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Surely no objective scientist would find evidence for evolution in nature’s echolocation designs. Would they? Read More ›