Tag: fitness

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, archetype, biological systems, biology, cold-spots, Daphne Major, Darwin's Finches, DNA, evolution, finches, fitness, Galápagos Islands, generalists, genetic variation, haplotype blocks, intelligent design, line, optimality, Pareto front, Pareto trajectory, Peter and Rosemary Grant, polytope, radiation, random mutations, randomness, specialists, systems biologists, trade-offs, triangle, Uppsala University, Uri Alon, Vilfredo Pareto}

Optimization: The Engineering Explanation for “Evolution Happening Before Our Eyes”

_{Emily Reeves
October 22, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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On Daphne Major, a Galápagos island, there are three major types of finch food: large seeds, small seeds, and pollen and insects. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, BIO-Complexity, biochemist, Children of Light, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, doctors, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, feathers, fire, Fire-Maker, fitness, functional intermediates, Greek Orthodox Church, intelligent design, mammals, Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny, neo-Darwinian evolution, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, structuralism, teleology, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water}

Has Michael Denton “Recanted” His Critiques of Darwinian Evolution?

_{Casey Luskin
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

15}

Obviously, in asking about someone’s view on “evolution,” the answer depends very much on how you define that notoriously multivalent word. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 10, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, complex structures, evolution, fitness, Germany, ID the Future, intelligent design, living things, Max Planck Institute, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, Paul Nelson, podcast, randomness, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Lost In (Search) Space: Why Randomness Challenges Neo-Darwinian Theory

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 10, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Paul Nelson and Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig discuss randomness in natural selection and why randomness is such a controversial topic. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anticipation, architecture, avida, cellulose, competition, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin’s Bluff, David G. King, Discovery Institute, embedding, evolution, Evolution News, fitness, foresight, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, lineage selection, Luis Zaman, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, natural selection, Neil Thomas, New Coke, PNAS, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Robert Shedinger, Seattle, Southern Illinois University, University of Michigan}

The Convoluted Concept of Evolving Evolvability

_{David Coppedge
March 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Try to wrap your mind around the notion that evolvability evolves by natural selection. On second thought, don’t. It’s not conducive to mental health. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, Design Inference, Eugenie Scott, evolution, evolutionary computing, fitness, intelligent design, mount improbable, Nature (journal), Peter Robinson, Richard Dawkins, shell game, simulation, Tesla, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Ray, Thomas Schneider, William Shakespeare}

The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

_{William A. Dembski
January 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

14}

In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aleksandr Oparin, bacteria, butterflies, fitness, genetic mutations, Heliconius, Icons of Evolution, inheritance, Jonathan Wells, Lepidopterans, mainstream media, materialism, MicroRNAs, moths, peppered moths, RNAs, Science (journal), selection, Stanley L. Miller, Zombie Science (book)}

Darwin’s Zombies Are Still Shambling Along

_{David Coppedge
January 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

When will scientists and reporters learn not to trot out these falsified stories? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 24, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, agnostics, blood, capillaries, cells, Charles Tanford, circulation, criminology, earth, elements, endothermy, evaporation, extraterrestrial intelligence, fitness, fluids, gas, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, liquid, microbiology, oxygen, skin, solid, solvents, temperature, The Wonder of Water, tissues, viscosity, water}

In the Case of Water, an Inference to Intelligent Design Is Independent of Any Religious Claim

_{Michael Denton
July 24, 2024

Biochemistry, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

15}

In this article I will explain why, as someone who is agnostic about many religious claims, I find the inference to intelligent design impossible to refuse. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", evolution, fitness, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, podcast, risk, sleep, systems, unconsciousness}

Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 15, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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“Survival of the unconscious…the most unconscious person wins…that just doesn’t seem to fit at all with an evolutionary survival of the fittest paradigm.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, early Earth, enzymes, Eric Anderson, fitness, Gerald Joyce, ID the Future, intervention, James Tour, PNAS, Research, researchers, RNA world, Robert Stadler, Salk Institute, Stephen Meyer, Washington Post}

Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", agnostics, atheism, Charles Darwin, evolution, Evolution News, fitness, human evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, mind, mindless processes, natural selection, Panda's Thumb, pandas, planning, Stephen Jay Gould, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theology, Young Earth Creationism}

Gould’s Panda Argument Is a Problem for Atheistic and Agnostic Views

_{Stephen Dilley
April 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, then, Stephen Jay Gould’s panda argument does not provide evidence against intelligent design. Read More ›