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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Dickson White, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, City University of New York, Cornell University, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Leo Strauss, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›

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Date
December 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Adaptive Radiation, Brigham Young University, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cornell University, Current Biology, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, genetic information, Harvard University, Heliconius, hybridization, intelligent design, introgression, Jonathan Wells, phylogenetic tree, PNAS, regulation, Science (journal), The Scientist}

Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversification by Non-Darwinian Mechanisms

_{Science and Culture
December 6, 2019

Evolution

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In butterfly “evolution,” new findings show mechanisms at work other than random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›

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Date
November 13, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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, __edited, arctic tern, Australia, birds, Carsten Egevang, celestial bodies, Cornell University, evolution, Flight: The Genius of Birds, Illustra Media, intelligent design, lunar calendar, lunar cycle, Lund University, migration, Nature (journal), New Scientist, parakeets, PNAS, Sweden, University of New South Wales}

New Bird Migration Secrets Revealed

_{Science and Culture
November 13, 2019

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Advances in live data logging show how birds do it: get from here to there. Some surprises were uncovered in recent experiments. Read More ›

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Author
Phillip E. Johnson

Date
November 4, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, Cornell University, creationists, Darwin on Trial, debate, evolutionary science, friendship, Stanford University, UC Berkeley}

Remembering Will Provine, Friend and Adversary

_{Phillip E. Johnson
November 4, 2019

Evolution

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Provine was one of those rare people with a strong viewpoint who is still willing to imagine that there is an opposing view that is worth hearing. Read More ›

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Date
November 19, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Alzheimer’s, apoptosis, Biological Information: New Perspectives, brain, cells, Cornell University, Darwin Devolves, DNA repair, Douglas Axe, eggs, Immune System, inflammation, intelligent design, John Sanford, memory, mice, Michael Behe, mutations, National Institutes of Health, New York University, oocyte, pathogen, Quanta Magazine, Research, Robert J. Marks II, skin, stem cells, UC Davis, William A. Dembski}

Memory — New Research Reveals Cells Have It, Too

_{Science and Culture
November 19, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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A memory of past events helps a cell learn how to respond to recurring threats and protect the genome. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 30, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, academic misconduct, altruism, Associated Press, Cornell University, evolution, food, investigation, James Madison University, scientific method, STEM education, Washington Post}

Lessons from the Wansink Science Scandal

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 30, 2018

Science Education

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Professor Alan Levinovitz asks: Science as "a big book of Important Truths"? Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 26, 2018

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Applied Mathematics Letters, Biological Information: New Perspectives, carbon, common sense, computers, Cornell University, Darwinists, earth, entropy, iPhone, Isaac Asimov, libraries, Mathematical Intelligencer, Physics Essays, Richard Dawkins, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Smithsonian, steel, sun, tornadoes, unguided evolution}

The Second Law Argument: A Timeline

_{Granville Sewell
February 26, 2018

Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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“Remove the sun,” wrote Isaac Asimov, “and the human brain would not have developed.” Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, common descent, Cornell University, Elliott Sober, Epicureanism, evolution, Harvard University, homology, Lewis Carroll, religion}

Two Evolutionists Inadvertently Demolish Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 20, 2018

Evolution

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Yesterday we saw how, in a new paper, Warren Allmon and Robert Ross reformulate the argument for evolution from homologous structures. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 19, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Bayesian reasoning, Cornell University, evolution, Evolution: Education and Outreach, homology, intelligent design, religion}

Warren Allmon on the Argument from Homology

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 19, 2018

Biology, Evolution

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The paper contains a very important concession. Read More ›

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Date
January 5, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, Biological Information: New Perspectives, Cornell University, extinction, John C. Sanford, Mendelian genetics, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, proof, Springer, University of Virginia}

Peer-Reviewed Science: A “Mathematical Proof of Darwinian Evolution” Is Falsified

_{Science and Culture
January 5, 2018

Evolution, Genetics, Mathematics

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Due to the tradition of professional scientific writing, major developments in scientific literature often arrive muffled in language so bland or technical as to be totally missed by a general reader. Read More ›