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April 23, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, Africa, anole lizards, arctic tern, birds, carbohydrate, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, dinosaurs, driver, evolution, finches, flightless cormorant, flightlessness, Galápagos Islands, glacier, global warming, Gondwana, Hawaii, honeycreepers, mass extinction, Michael Behe, migration, New Zealand, PNAS}

Despite Dozens of Authors, PNAS Paper Fails to Explain Bird Evolution

_{Science and Culture
April 23, 2019

Evolution

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They reason backwards: Birds evolved, therefore some poorly understood mindless processes must have driven them to evolve. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 23, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, Africa, apes, atheism, BBC, birth control, bonobos, chimpanzees, Christians, church, communion, Darwinism, Easter, Eucharist, evolution, genetic fallacy, great apes, humans, Jane Goodall, jesus, last common ancestor, Mass, materialists, meals, monkeys, neocortex, On the Origin of Species, religion, savannah}

How Did Religion “Evolve”?

_{Michael Egnor
April 23, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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It’s telling that one kind of evolution always seems to be missing from these “theories” about the evolutionary origins of religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, 3D printing, abiogenesis, computer, evolution, Granville Sewell, reward, self-replication}

Announcing New Sewell Prize in Biological Origins Studies!

_{David Klinghoffer
April 19, 2019

Evolution

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It sets a fascinating challenge but offers an enviable reward. Read More ›

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Date
April 18, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacterial flagellum, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Dover trial, evo-devo, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, natural genetic engineering, neutral theory, outboard motor, PLOS Biology, starvation, T3SS, type III secretion system}

Darwin Devolves, Again: Study Finds Bacteria Eject Their Flagella to Avoid Starvation

_{Science and Culture
April 18, 2019

Intelligent Design

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This finding fits Michael Behe’s book Darwin Devolves perfectly. It’s easier to throw cargo overboard than to create it. Read More ›

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Date
April 17, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, DNA repair, E. coli, evolution, fungi, HGT, honeybees, horizontal gene transfer, hybridization, ID the Future, introgression, Michael Behe, microbiome, mutations, PLOS Biology, PNAS, radiation, RNA polymerase, Stanford University, Taiwan, University of Barcelona}

Testing Behe’s Principle that Darwin Devolves

_{Science and Culture
April 17, 2019

Evolution

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We looked at some papers claiming to see evolution happening in real time, to see if natural selection has actually invented a new function, or just broke an existing function. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
April 15, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, atheism, Austin Hughes, bacteria, Bible, Canada, common descent, Darwinian theory, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, faith, fruit flies, humans, inferential science, observations, RNA replication, science, scientism}

Inferential Science — What Could Go Wrong?

_{Kirk Durston
April 15, 2019

Evolution, Geology, Origin of Life

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There are many solid, trustworthy inferences in modern science, but there are those that are not very trustworthy at all. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 13, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ben Shapiro, evolution, Google, intelligent design, natural selection, Southern California, Stephen Meyer, Sunday Special, universe}

Stephen Meyer: The Universe, but Make It Brief

_{David Klinghoffer
April 13, 2019

Intelligent Design

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My kids will you confirm for you how much I admire brevity. I’m a broken record on the subject of being concise. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 12, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteriophages, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, enhancers, evolution, FCT, Functional-Coded-elemenT, insulators, lambda, LTEE, MacArthur Fellow, Michigan State University, National Academy of Sciences, OmpF, promoters, Richard Lenski, Science (journal), Sean Carroll, Telliamed Revisited, The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

_{Michael Behe
April 12, 2019

Biology, Evolution

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Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›

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Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, aesthetics, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elliott Sober, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Karl Popper, materialists, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Nature (journal), Phillip E. Johnson, philosophers, PNAS, science, selection, Summer Seminars, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Nagel, William Whewell}

Philosophers Want Back into Science

_{Science and Culture
April 11, 2019

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 10, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, death, Emily Kurlinski, evolution, eyeglasses, hubris, humans, hypocrisy, ID the Future, interventions, podcast, Titanic, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Wesley Smith}

Wesley Smith on Transhumanism — A New Tower of Babel

_{David Klinghoffer
April 10, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

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Wesley has been fighting this fight almost single-handedly, as the media looks on in admiration at attempts to control evolution and usher in a secular New Jerusalem. Read More ›