Tag: Encyclopedia Britannica

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 16, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, censorship, encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, Google, Harvard University, hoax, information, Jimmy Wales, Jordan Boyd, large language models, Larry Sanger, misinformation, Research, search engines, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia}

Sanger Banned by Wikipedia: Diagnosing a Disease

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 16, 2026

Computational Sciences, Scientific Freedom

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Sanger became a Christian, which probably got him crossed off a lot of people’s Santa list. But how did he get banned? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, British Association, Cambridge University, cancer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cecil J. Monro, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, configurational entropy, cosmology, Daniel Silver, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, fine-tuning, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Maxwell’s demon, molecules, Origin of Species, pain, Pangenesis, physics, poetry, punishment, Red Lions, science stopper, thermodynamics, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism}

Post-Darwin, Too, Maxwell Drew a Remarkable Design Inference

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2026

History of Science, Intelligent Design

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So far we detect significant prescience about intelligent design in Maxwell’s thought. He all but uses the phrase himself. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, amniotes, biological novelty, birds, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francis Collins, Germany, homology, intelligent design, Karl Giberson, ontogeny, paleontology, scales, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, The Language of Science and Faith, theropod, theropod dinosaurs}

Fossil Friday: A Dinosaur Feather and an Overhyped New Study on the Origin of Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
May 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Feathers, which are the most complex integumental structures known in the animal kingdom, without doubt required coordinated changes in numerous genes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, creationists, Darwinism, Dave Farina, Encyclopedia Britannica, Ernst Mayr, evolution, evolutionary biology, fact check, Francisco Ayala, Modern evolutionary synthesis, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Jay Gould, Wikipedia}

Fact-Checking “Professor Dave”: Is the Term “Darwinism” Really Used Only by “Creationists”?

_{Günter Bechly
May 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As this nonsense is so often found in Internet forums, I here provide the peer-reviewed scientific evidence to put the point to rest once and for all. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 18, 2021

Categories
Astronomy
Evolution
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Copernican principle, Dartmouth College, earth, Encyclopedia Britannica, exoplanets, logic, Marcelo Gleiser, Nicolaus Copernicus, planets, solar system}

Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 18, 2021

Astronomy, Evolution, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

The Copernican Principle has been misused to imply that Earth is somehow insignificant. That is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science. 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

7}

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
Michael Flannery

Date
July 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theism, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolutionary theory, intelligent evolution, National Academy of Sciences, natural selection, scientific community, theistic evolution}

James Dwight Dana: Falsely Claimed Darwinist

_{Michael Flannery
July 12, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology

5}

When it comes to claims of the “nearly unanimous” acceptance of Darwinian evolution, mere assertion cannot stand as fact. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 26, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Amber Rice, ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, biologists, cells, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, E. coli, Encyclopedia Britannica, Evolution (journal), fiber optic cables, genes, Greg Lang, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, James Clerk Maxwell, Lehigh University, machines, molecular machines, Nature (journal), Nobel Prize, On the Origin of Species, organisms, planthopper, proteins, public opinion, Richard Lenski, Sabine Hossenfelder, scientists, yeast}

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 3

_{Michael Behe
March 26, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

15}

Perhaps the evidence for the vast scope of Darwin’s theory really isn’t as strong as biologists over the years have been telling each other. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 19, 2017

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Baylor University, Center for Science and Culture, creationism, editor, Encyclopedia Britannica, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Internet, paleontology, Portugal, Scotland, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia}

You’ve Been Edited — Another ID Scholar, Walter Bradley, Gets the Wikipedia Treatment

_{David Klinghoffer
October 19, 2017

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We reported here the other day that distinguished German paleontologist Günter Bechly was erased by Wikipedia. Read More ›