Tag: evolutionary tree

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, animals, biology, circuitry, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin's tree, discontinuity, embryonic development, endowed by our creator, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionary tree, function, natural selection, nature, Paul Nelson, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Chicago}

“Generative Entrenchment”: A Fundamental Problem for Darwin’s Tree

_{David Klinghoffer
December 8, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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An “entity” may be so fundamental, so entrenched, arising so early in embryonic development, that it can't be toyed with by evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 8, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brains, Cambrian Explosion, cephalopods, chimpanzees, chromosomes, evolution, evolutionary tree, intelligence, mammals, octopuses, Tel Aviv University, worms}

Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Place in the Evolutionary Tree?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 8, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost "alien" species. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, common ancestry, common design, dependency graph, evolution, evolutionary tree, Gutsick Gibbon, intelligent design, randomness, synapomorphies, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?

_{Emily Reeves
August 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

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The tree-like pattern from the dataset was not very strong. Of course, if you shuffle it, it looks strong compared to randomness. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common descent, Communications Biology, convergent evolution, Darwinism, Darwinism as religion, evolution, evolutionary tree, gene sequences, Phys.org, Richard Dawkins, Tree of Life, University of Bath}

Study: “Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong”

_{Günter Bechly
June 2, 2022

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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This refutes one of the favorite talking points of popularizers of Darwinism like Richard Dawkins. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
November 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Current Biology, devolution, Eric Anderson, evolution, evolutionary tree, functionality, genetic information, ID the Future, introns, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, Plasmodium falciparum, podcast, Tree of Life, yeast}

Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan Witt
November 27, 2021

Evolution, Medicine

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Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 22, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cars, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, common ancestor, Elon Musk, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tree, Francis Collins, Genome Research, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, historical sciences, intelligent design, junk DNA, Matti Leisola, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Meyer, Tesla, University of Cambridge}

Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

_{Jonathan Witt
October 22, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 7, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, Biological Reviews, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, evolutionary tree, Genome Research, hierarchy, intelligent design, mammals, Metazoa, New Scientist, Precambrian, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, universal common ancestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

_{Casey Luskin
September 7, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 22, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, adrenaline, buffalo, cats, chimpanzees, Doctor's Diary (series), Dogs, dolphins, eggs, evolutionary tree, fertilization, Genesis, humans, intelligent design, intimacy, Judaism, mammals, Neanderthals, ovaries, ovum, PNAS, sex, sperm, spiders}

Doctor’s Diary: The Human Difference and the Design of Sex

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 22, 2019

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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It’s safe to say that human intimacy, at its best, surpasses that of any animal, even the most intelligent. Read More ›

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Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, apes, Australia, blue whale, cancer, DNA, epigenetics, evolutionary tree, Harvard University, humidity, humpback whale, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Living Waters, Metamorphosis, MIT, monarch butterfly, mutations, natural selection, NOAA, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthesis, PLOS ONE, Rubisco, Science Advances, spider silk, termites, UCLA, University of Sheffield, Weizmann Institute}

Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

_{Science & Culture
March 20, 2019

Biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design

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So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
April 30, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteria, chemical energy, common ancestor, common ancestry, common descent, Darwinian theory, evolution, evolutionary tree, evolutionists, mitochondria, multicellular life, predictions, species, testability}

Rewrite the Textbooks (Again): Origin of Mitochondria Blown Up

_{Cornelius Hunter
April 30, 2018

Evolution

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Why are evolutionists always wrong? And why are they always so sure of themselves? Read More ›