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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, Cambridge University Press, coin toss, cryptography, Darwinists, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Elliott Sober, evolution, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Hamlet, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, monograph, plagiarism, S. Joshua Swamidass, specified complexity, statistics, The Design Inference, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago, William Shakespeare, Winston Ewert}

The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs

_{William A. Dembski
June 17, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, antiquity, Aristotle, atomism, Cambridge University, Darwinism, David Brown, David Hume, Enlightenment, evolution, fideism, Gospels, Headlong Hall, Judeo-Christian tradition, Meister Eckhart, Mendelian genetics, Middle Ages, New Testament, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Rudolf Otto, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Love Peacock, Victorians}

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

_{Neil Thomas
June 16, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, anti-evolutionism, biological systems, Cambridge University Press, Darwinian processes, entropy, evolution, Evolution News, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, Neo-Darwinism, Richard Dawkins, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Steven Pinker, William A. Dembski, Young Earth Creationists}

The Success of Mathematics in Advancing Intelligent Design: A Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse

_{William A. Dembski
June 16, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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If there’s one thing that Rosenhouse does well in this book, it is to misrepresent intelligent design and its use of mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, consciousness, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, On the Origin of Species, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe}

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, David Hull, Democritus, Edward Blyth, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Law of Correlation, Linnaean Society, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Irvine}

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, body plans, Darwinian theory, evolution, fossil record, Germany, gradual development, intelligent design, Late Triassic, museums, nests, predictions, pterosaurs, sea floor, transitional fossils}

Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin

_{Günter Bechly
June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Dean Kenyon, evolution, Fred Hoyle, Isaac Newton, James Hutton, James Thomson, On the Origin of Species, Percival Davis, Peter Bowler, Principles of Geology, Robert Elsmere, Theory of the Earth, Thomas Huxley, William Shakespeare}

Was Darwinian Theory Based on a False Analogy to Geology?

_{Neil Thomas
June 8, 2022

Evolution, Geology, Physical Sciences

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Given the degree of discipleship for Sir Charles, Darwin fully expected to receive Lyell’s commendation for his labors. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, convergent evolution, Darwinian theory, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, evolutionary time, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, horizontal gene transfer, immaterial, information, information theory, Modern Synthesis, radio, randomness, television, Third Way}

Here’s a New Evolutionary Theory Based on Information

_{Science and Culture
June 8, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Information follows different rules from matter and energy, which might change the way we see evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaea, autism, bioRxiv, cancer, chloroplasts, diseases, DNA, eukaryotes, evolution, genome, homology, intelligent design, Long Story Short, loop extrusion, metabolism, mitochondria, molecular machines, National Cancer Institute, RNA, seizures, topoisomerase II, topoisomerases, topology}

Topoisomerase Origins Defy Darwinian Explanations

_{David Coppedge
June 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A review of the topoisomerase family of molecular machines that repair DNA ignores where they came from. Another article tries but has no answers. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Apple iPhones, cars, College Physics, computers, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionists, intelligent design, jet airplanes, Michael Behe, nuclear power plants, Peter Urone, self-replicating machines, unintelligent forces}

Three Realities Chance Can’t Explain That Intelligent Design Can

_{Granville Sewell
June 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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The argument for ID could not be clearer: Unintelligent forces cannot rearrange atoms into computers and airplanes and nuclear power plants and smartphones. Read More ›