Tag: frogs

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred Adler, Andreas Wagner, biology, bird beaks, Charles Darwin, circular reasoning, Darwinism, ENCODE project, evidence, evolution, explanatory power, François Jacob, frogs, genome, homologous features, inferiority complex, irrefutable belief systems, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, philosophy of science, psychologists, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Dobzhansky}

Why Evolution Is Undeniable

_{Daniel Witt
July 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The challenges continue to pile up, but the pile never gets any bigger because each piece of contrary evidence is reinterpreted for “general reasons.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Charles Ives, circatidal rhythms, conductors, crustaceans, Current Biology, frogs, fruit flies, homeostasis, Irreducible Complexity, kicking, Krisha Aghi, life cycle, lunar cycles, Metamorphosis, orbital cycles, order, Patrick Emery, randomness, Richard Kinkead, sand flea, signal transducers, solar cycles, stability, stroking, synapse, tadpole, Tara A. Janes, tempos, treading water, Victoria Lewis}

Homeostasis Is More than Treading Water

_{David Coppedge
July 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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From bacterium to brontosaur, stability in a dynamic environment requires an astonishing array of systems for sensing, signaling, and responding to change. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, birds, butterflies, Chicxulub impact, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, evolution, Field Museum, flowering plants, frogs, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Israel, Jordan, Jurassic Park, Lebanon, mammals, Mars rover, orchids, Paleogene, Palestine, Patagonia, Penn State, pterosaurs, roses, Science Advances, storytelling, Syria, Turkey, UC Santa Barbara, University of Bath, worms}

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

_{David Coppedge
October 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent. Read More ›

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Date
October 15, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algebra, ants, calculus, common ancestor, fish, frogs, geometry, humans, neurons, neuroscience, numbers, zebrafish}

How Frogs and Fish “Count”

_{Science and Culture
October 15, 2022

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

We’re beginning to find out more about how animals that don’t really “think” much can keep track of numbers, when needed. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, cell biology, cells, CNN, computers, frogs, intelligent design, John Timmer, robots, self-replication, Tufts University, University of Vermont}

Xenobots: Researchers Claim to Have Created New Form of Biological Self-Replication

_{Brian Miller
December 3, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences

4}

Xenobots are artificially interconnected biological tissues whose arrangements are determined by some algorithm. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 1, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, ancient Greece, atheism, Caltech, credentialism, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, expertise, experts, frogs, high school, intelligent design, materialists, molecular biology, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, U.C. Berkeley}

Evolution and the “Experts” — A Liberating Message from Molecular Biologist Doug Axe

_{David Klinghoffer
April 1, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

The controversy about Darwinian evolution is often framed as a matter of credentials. We must listen to the “experts”! Please precious experts, tell us what to think! Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, application, biological origins, Brian Miller, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, colleges, deadline, education, evolution, frogs, Guillermo Gonzalez, Hawaii, intelligent design, John West, marriage, Michael Behe, Paul Nelson, Puget Sound, Richard Sternberg, scientists, Seattle, Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, universities, William Dembksi}

A Summer Seminar Grad Tells How Her Life Was Changed

_{David Klinghoffer
February 10, 2020

Intelligent Design

4}

As Beth says, the freedom to learn about the design evidence without fear is, unfortunately, a real anomaly in today’s academic setting. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Zoology
Tagged
, __nedited, arthropods, circadian rhythms, cladistics, common descent, crustaceans, Current Biology, Devonian Period, evolutionists, frogs, George McGhee, homology, homoplasy, lampreys, lizards, Paleozoic, pseudogenes, Simon Conway Morris, sleep, Stephen Jay Gould, tetrapods, University of Tübingen, vertebrates, Willi Hennig}

Extinct Four-Eyed Monitor Lizard Busts Myth of a Congruent Nested Hierarchy

_{Günter Bechly
April 23, 2018

Evolution, Paleontology, Zoology

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Obviously, evolutionary “laws” are quite malleable and have to give way when they become too cumbersome. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 9, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, animals, chimpanzees, counting, frogs, goats, intelligence, Kyoto University, Natalie Angier, New York Times, numbers, Royal Society, spiders}

Sure, Animals Count; But Can They Count?

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 9, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

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What is the nature, and extent, of animal intelligence? Read More ›