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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, atheism, biological information, Charles Darwin, Christianity, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Edward Jenner, emergency room, epidemiology, evolution, Harvard University, Ignaz Semmelweis, Louis Pasteur, narrative gloss, neurosurgeon, nurses, pagans, pandemic, Paul Ehrlich, plague, Rodney Stark, unintelligent processes}

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2020: Upstairs into the Plague

_{Michael Egnor
December 25, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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Epidemiology, to which Darwinism is a “narrative gloss,” is an old and vigorous science. Read More ›

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Date
December 19, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Tagged
, bacteria, birds, Darwinian theory, devolution, function, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, molecular evolution, peer-reviewed literature, The Quarterly Review of Biology, viruses}

Michael Behe: Evolution by Devolution

_{Science & Culture
December 19, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution

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An example of this devolutionary process on a showy scale? Flightless island birds, devolved from birds that could fly. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", 2001: A Space Odyssey, civilization, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, evolution, extinction, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, humans, literature, mutations, natural science, natural selection, naturalism, science fiction, sheep, Stanley Kubrick, The Time Machine, Thomas Hardy, violence}

Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

_{Jonathan Witt
December 12, 2020

Bioethics

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The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 11, 2020

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, Darwinian theory, devolution, E.O. Wilson, evolution, fiction, goodness, human nature, materialism, movies, mutations, natural selection, nobility, novels, sexual selection}

Darwin and the Devolution of Story

_{Jonathan Witt
December 11, 2020

Arts, Bioethics

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Darwinian materialism suggests that the impulse toward artistic creation is merely the human songbird attracting a mate. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 6, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, intelligent design, junk DNA, molecular machines, polymerase, random mutation, science journals, Scientific American, skeptics, students}

Excerpt: Letter to the Journal of Chemical Education

_{Michael Behe
December 6, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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Unlike philosophy journals — or high school newspapers — many science journals are unwilling to publish responses by people attacked in their pages. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 3, 2020

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, biochemical systems, biochemists, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolutionary biologists, intelligent design, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, religion, summer, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Excerpt: Darwinism and Design

_{Michael Behe
December 3, 2020

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Much of the difficulty here arises in the differing standards that different disciplines have for what constitutes an “explanation.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 23, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, books, critics, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian theory, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Larry Moran, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny, Neo-Darwinism, Richard Lenski, University of Otago, worldview}

Praise for Behe’s Latest: “Facts Before Theory”

_{David Klinghoffer
November 23, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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Says Michael Denton, "The book represents a devastatingly brilliant unanswerable response to his Darwinian critics and to the whole Darwinian worldview." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, bacteria, biological diversity, Charles Darwin, creative power, Darwinian theory, diseases, evolution, homology, Long Story Short, natural selection, penicillin, tuberculosis, unguided evolution, whale evolution}

New “Long Story” on Bacterial Evolution Is Here!

_{David Klinghoffer
November 13, 2020

Evolution

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As animator “Long Story” puts it in his video, the claim is an example of evolutionary equivocation”: “The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth.” Read More ›

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Date
November 4, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aleksandr Oparin, Ann Gauger, Charles Thaxton, coacervates, Darwinian theory, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, Frankenstein, Geppetto, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Marxists, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, Penn State, Pinocchio, replication, RNA, RNA world, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Basel, University of Chicago}

Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells

_{Science & Culture
November 4, 2020

Chemistry, Evolution, Origin of Life

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Oparin is back. Some origin-of-life researchers are using his coacervate theory without giving him credit or realizing they are retreading dead-end ideas. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 28, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Reporting
Tagged
, apology, Black Lives Matter, Bronx Zoo, Darwinian theory, eugenics, evolution, George Floyd, Human Zoos, John West, National Zoo, New York Times, newspapers, Ota Benga, Pamela Newkirk, pseudoscientific racism, Racism, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga, stonewalling}

Journalist Finds a “Cover-Up” by the Bronx Zoo

_{David Klinghoffer
August 28, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Reporting

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It wasn’t until they were forced by events that the Zoo and the Wildlife Conservation Society admitted this black life mattered. Read More ›