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Date
June 1, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
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, anthropologists, behavior, chimpanzees, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, Darwinism, Homo sapiens, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, PNAS, predictions, Stanford University, Tel Aviv University, universal acid, wave, William Shakespeare}

Much Nothing about Ado: The Uselessness of Dehumanized Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
June 1, 2020

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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To Darwinians, people are just another species of animal. But when they invent models to try to explain how human animals evolve their behaviors, chaos ensues. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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, __edited, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, genetic engineering, intelligent design, Internet, Jesuits, noosphere, North American Teilhard Society, paleontology, Peter Medawar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Piltdown Man, The Phenomenon of Man, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel}

Teilhard de Chardin and the Incomplete Nature of Evolutionary Theory

_{Robert Shedinger
February 13, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science

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As Thomas Nagel would argue today, any theory of evolution that excludes the origin of mind and consciousness from consideration is at best half a theory. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of Theological Schools, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, Buddha, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, John Avise, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Paul, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine}

Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
January 13, 2020

Faith & Science

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As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Brooklyn College, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, David Berlinski, David Quammen, E.O. Wilson, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, Janet Browne, Jews, Julian Huxley, Library of Congress, Oliver Cromwell, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, University of Chicago, Winston Churchill}

Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 26, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, Ann Gauger, atheism, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, faith, fake news, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan Wells, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Paul Nelson, Stephen Meyer, Thanksgiving, universal acid, Wikipedia}

Thanksgiving Day, 1859 — Guess What Happened?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 26, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The “fake news” about evolution is no joke. Through the media, in schools and colleges, it shapes our culture and erodes the noblest ideas of humankind’s place in the cosmos. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 30, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, inference, Islam, Jerry Coyne, Plato, Richard Dawkins, Saint Augustine, Siberia, Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Hawking, Summa Theologica, termite mound, theism, Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus, totalitarianism}

Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne

_{Michael Egnor
September 30, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Scientific Reasoning

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The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 13, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, blasphemy, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian ideology, dogmatism, evolution, heresy, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Luther College, materialism, mental illness, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, mind, On the Origin of Species, orthodoxy, Phillip E. Johnson, religion, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, The Edge of Evolution, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

How Does a Religious Studies Professor Become a Darwinian Skeptic?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 13, 2019

Faith & Science

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The perpetuation of Darwinian ideology comes at the cost of truly grappling with the profound nature of the question of biological origins. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 5, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, books, brain, chemical reactions, chemicals, college, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Jay Richards, materialism, Sam Harris, Science Uprising, self}

Jay Richards: The Many Dilemmas of Materialism

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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When you go off to an elite college today, you’re expected to think about the most important questions as if it were true that only material things exist. Read More ›

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Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, aesthetics, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elliott Sober, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Karl Popper, materialists, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Nature (journal), Phillip E. Johnson, philosophers, PNAS, science, selection, Summer Seminars, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Nagel, William Whewell}

Philosophers Want Back into Science

_{Science and Culture
April 11, 2019

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, CCC, chloroquine resistance, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Douglas Futuyma, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Genetics (journal), Jerry Coyne, Joseph Thornton, Kenneth Miller, Laurence Moran, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, Nathan Lents, National Academy of Sciences, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nicholas Matzke, oocyte, Plasmodium falciparum, PNAS, Response to Criticism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, Robert L. Summers, Russell Doolittle, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, The Edge of Evolution, Xenopus laevis}

From Swamidass on Chloroquine Resistance, a Response that Doesn’t Respond

_{Casey Luskin
February 20, 2019

Evolution

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Swamidass’s response doesn’t address our main arguments, but he indicates he is impressed by what Darwinian mechanisms accomplished in generating chloroquine resistance. Read More ›