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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Artificial Selection, barnacles, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, Charles Darwin, college students, Douglas Futuyma, Ecuador, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary theory, Fleeming Jenkin, Galápagos Islands, George Gaylord Simpson, Loren Eiseley, materialistic science, methodological naturalism, neo-Darwinian synthesis, On the Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Strickberger’s Evolution, Thomas Huxley}

Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, antibiotics, bone marrow, cancer, chemotherapy, Darwinian medicine, Darwinism, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologists, exercise, Immune System, infection, malaria, medical science, natural selection, obesity, oncologists, pandemic, Randolph Nesse, SARS-CoV-2, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series)}

The Myth of “Darwinian Medicine”

_{Michael Egnor
April 3, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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The very admission that Darwinism has had no role in medical science is a telling argument not for its inclusion, but for its irrelevance. 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

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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, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Cornell University, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, demons, Duke of Argyll, Ernst Mayr, First Cause, Freeman Dyson, Harvard University, Jonathan Wells, materialists, Nature's Prophet, spiritualism, Summa Theologica, T.H. Huxley, The World of Life, Thomas Aquinas}

Why Nature’s Prophet Had to be Written

_{Michael Flannery
November 19, 2019

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Wallace’s greatest “heresy” was to become, after his co-discovery of natural selection, “godfather” of the modern theory of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, 1984 (novel), Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Ernst Mayr, George Orwell, London, National Academy of Sciences, naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Phillip E. Johnson, Stephen Meyer, T.H. Huxley, Tacoma, theology}

Phillip Johnson and the Rebellion of the Evidence

_{Paul Nelson
November 6, 2019

Evolution, Philosophy

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When Phil started talking, his diminutive stature and drab appearance melted away, replaced by a series of powerful arguments sharpened with irony and deadly accurate humor. Read More ›

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Date
July 31, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, biological novelty, bioRxiv, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, devolution, East Africa, Ernst Mayr, evolution, evolutionary biology, finches, Lake Victoria, Michael Behe, Nature Scientific Reports, polar bears, species, taxpayers, The Conversation, The Edge of Evolution}

Time to Put a Lid on Cichlid Evolution Propaganda

_{Science & Culture
July 31, 2019

Evolution

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If cichlid evolution is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology, then Darwinism’s sphere of explanatory inference is too small to matter. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
February 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, blood-clotting cascade, Cambridge University Press, chloroquine, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, E. coli, Ernst Mayr, evolution, exaptation, Finding Darwin's God, gene duplication, hemoglobin, Hox genes, Kenneth Miller, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mammals, mutations, Nathan Lents, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, olfaction, PLoS Genetics, primates, Response to Criticism, ribose, Richard Lenski, Robert L. Summers, Russell Doolittle, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Train Wreck of a Review: A Response to Lenski et al. in Science

_{Michael Behe
February 14, 2019

Evolution

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Richard Lenski has spent decades overseeing the most extensive, most acclaimed laboratory evolution experiment conducted to date. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 5, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Africa, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, Daily Mail, DNA, Ernst Mayr, Forbes, Genetics and the Origin of Species (book), Homo sapiens, Human Evolution (journal), human origins, isolation, Michael Marshall, mitochondria, mitochondrial Eve, Nature (journal), Peaceful Science, speciation, species, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, women, Y chromosome, Y-chromosome Adam}

Does Barcoding DNA Reveal a Single Human Ancestral Pair?

_{Ann Gauger
December 5, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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I don’t think the study can claim all the things it does based on the evidence they have. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 27, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Harvard University, Henri Bergson, idealism, John Elof Boodin, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, paleontology, pantheism, positivism, pragmatism, realism, Stephen Hawking, William James}

Who Was John Elof Boodin and Why Does He Matter?

_{Michael Flannery
July 27, 2018

Evolution, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Boodin’s view that science and metaphysics could mutually inform one another was full of promise. Read More ›