Tag: debates

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Historical Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, Aspidella, Ausia, Ausia fenestrata, Australia, California, Cambrian Explosion, certainty, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Dilemma, Darwin’s Doubt, Death Valley, debates, ecology, Ediacaran biota, fossils, Günter Bechly, GUT, metazoans, muscles, Nama Group, Namibia, nervous system, organs, peacock, Petalonamae, Pteridinium, Rangeomorpha, sea squirt, Simon Conway Morris, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, suspension feeders, taphonomy, urochordate}

Despite Exceptionally Well-Preserved Namibian Fossils, Ediacaran Mystery Remains

_{David Coppedge
November 24, 2025

Historical Sciences, Paleontology

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Simon Conway Morris described the Ediacaran ecology as a “sleepy” world of simple, passive creatures bearing no resemblance to what was to come. Read More ›

Female robot face, Artificial intelligence concept. Generative AI

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 21, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, brain, brain mapping, COSM 2025, debates, emotions, free will, frontal cortex, history of science, immaterial mind, intelligent design, logic, machines, mathematics, memories, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, near-death experiences, neural patterns, psychology, seizures, sensations, soul, surgeries, twins}

COSM Debate: “Are Human Beings Machines?”

_{Casey Luskin
November 21, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

9}

The debate centered on the mind and brain and whether the mind is distinct from the brain or whether we’re nothing more than chemicals and firing neurons. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chemists, debates, English, evolution, faith and science, Grzegorz Malec, intelligent design, philosophers of science, Poland, Polish, secularization, teleology, Warsaw, Wojchiech Sady}

Postcard from Warsaw: Debating Teleology in Science

_{William A. Dembski
August 31, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

An English version of the debate, with Professor Sady's words translated into English, is now available on YouTube. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

30}

A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Date
June 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Candida, centromere, chromosome, Dan Stern Cardinale, David Klinghoffer, debates, DNA, Dr. Dan, Drosophila, kinetochore, yeast}

Documentation for Dr. Dan

_{Science and Culture
June 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

We hope Rutgers biologist Dan Stern Cardinale finds these citations of interest. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 21, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, Casey Luskin, Dan Stern Cardinale, debates, Dr. Dan, evolution, Evolution News, function, geologists, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, junk DNA, kinetochore, Long Story Short, Richard Sternberg, Rutgers University, Twitter}

Dr. Dan Has a Taste for Debate

_{David Klinghoffer
June 21, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

From what I’ve been told, there are many examples of “non-conserved” regions having sequence-independent functions. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Dan Stern Cardinale, debates, DNA, Dr. Dan, evolution, function, genome, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, junk DNA, non-coding DNA, podcast, Rutgers University}

Casey Luskin Reflects on His Recent Junk DNA Debate

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 16, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

For decades we were told that non-coding regions of our DNA are littered with evolutionary junk. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, debates, Discovery Institute, DNA, Dr. Dan, ENCODE, ERVs, Evolution News, Ewan Birney, function, genome, junk DNA, Nature (journal), pseudogenes, repetitive DNA, RNA, Rutgers University, YouTube channels}

Did Dr. Dan Make Us Change Our Position on Junk DNA?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

13}

This claim is totally false and it perhaps reflects Dr. Dan’s wish to find a positive spin on the substance of what happened during the debate. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, cell types, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, debates, Dr. Dan, ENCODE, evolution, function, genome, Hox genes, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, non-coding DNA, non-coding RNAs, Paulo Amaral, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Rutgers University, scientific literature, The NonSequitur Show}

Reflections on Casey Luskin’s Debate with “Dr. Dan”

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 16, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

I commend Dr. Dan for being an amicable dialogue partner and for his good faith attempt to engage substantively with the relevant scientific issues. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Daniel Stern Cardinale, debates, DNA, dog, Dr. Dan, embryogenesis, embryonic stem cells, enzymes, euchromatin, evolution, function, genome, Genome Biology, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, LINE-1 elements, macaque, methylation, miRNAs, mouse, Nature (journal), non-coding RNAs, peer-reviewed literature, repetitive elements, Rutgers University, Science (journal), transposable elements}

From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

_{Jonathan McLatchie, Richard Sternberg, and Casey Luskin
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

22}

On May 2, Casey Luskin had an online debate with Professor Daniel Stern Cardinale, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University. Read More ›