Tag: Douglas Futuyma

Concept of biochemistry with dna molecule, Human face, DNA on dark background. Ai generated

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Date
March 4, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, Aristotle, Biological Theory, Brian Charlesworth, Brian Miller, careers, cognition, computer code, David B. Resnik, designer, Douglas Futuyma, Gen Z, gender issues, goal-directedness, graduate school, intelligence, intentionality, Jerry Coyne, Michael Levin, neo-Darwinians, neuroscience, Plato, Plato's Revenge, purpose, reactionaries, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, Stuart Burgess, teleology, Tufts University}

The Levin Teleology Revolution Is Here

_{Science & Culture
March 4, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

He has assembled a global community of like-minded investigators who openly advocate teleological arguments harking back to Aristotle and Plato. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blind spot, capillaries, cephalopod, Douglas Futuyma, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, George Williams, human eye, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Nathan Lents, optic nerve, oxygen, retina, Richard Dawkins, Richard Young, The Blind Watchmaker, toxins, vertebrate}

Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biogeography, complementarity, Douglas Futuyma, dysteleology, embryology, evolution, Evolution News, faith and science, Francis Collins, Francisco Ayala, George Williams, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, marsupials, methodological naturalism, Niles Eldredge, NOMA, paleontology, Panda's Thumb, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, textbooks, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Does the Panda Argument Hurt the Case for Evolution?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Gould cannot have it both ways: either theology-laden arguments are legitimate within scientific discourse or not. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blind spot, capillaries, cephalopod, Douglas Futuyma, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, George Williams, human eye, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Nathan Lents, optic nerve, oxygen, retina, Richard Dawkins, Richard Young, The Blind Watchmaker, toxins, vertebrate}

Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
May 15, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bacteria, Charles Darwin, chihuahua, Douglas Futuyma, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Galápagos Islands, Japan, Lynn Margulis, microevolution, speciation, Top Scientific Problems with Evolution (series)}

Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution

8}

Just because something can be counted as science does not automatically mean that it is true. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
June 3, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Africans, August Weismann, Charles Darwin, Christianity, coronavirus, critical race theory, Darwinism, Douglas Futuyma, evolution, intelligent design, liberalism, materialism, pandemic, Protestantism, Racism, religion, stereotype, theology, white supremacy}

Confessions of a Liberal Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
June 3, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science

8}

Never has it been more important to look beyond a superficial materialist worldview and see our lives again in a transcendent framework. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Futuyma, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Galápagos Islands, history, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, macroevolution, natural selection, neo-Darwinian synthesis, organisms, William Paley}

I Disagree with David Klinghoffer, But It’s My Fault for the Confusion

_{Paul Nelson
February 21, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Evolution is an implication — that is, an empirical consequence — of design. 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, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, 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, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, 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

30}

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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Date
August 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, Douglas Futuyma, education, evolution, Francis Collins, George Williams, human nature, J.B.S. Haldane, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, methodological naturalism, Neil Shubin, Niles Eldredge, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, textbooks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Biology Textbooks and the “God-Talk” Problem

_{Science & Culture
August 20, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Science Education

7}

A muddle emerges from textbooks’ unprincipled use of theology. Read More ›