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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cud, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), necks, okapi, Percival Davis, President, rete mirabile, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, University of Cape Town, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

_{Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Linnaeus, common ancestry, Craig Venter, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution (journal), genetic engineering, geneticists, Georges Cuvier, historical sciences, intelligent design, molecular biologists, Mycoplasma, phylogenetics, primates, scientists, separate ancestry, statistics, Summer Seminar, systematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son. Read More ›

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Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bioRxiv, CELS 2021, CRISPR, DNA, Emily Reeves, epigenetics, evolution, finches, gametes, genetic information, geneticists, hybridization, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Methanoperedens, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, New Scientist, organelles, Peter and Rosemary Grant, PNAS, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen, zygote}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
August 13, 2021

Evolution

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Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›

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Date
May 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, addition, alleles, Casey Luskin, Darwin Devolves, DNA, evolution, gene loss, genes, geneticists, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Nature Heredity, population genomics, positive selection, subtraction}

More on Evolution by Subtraction

_{Science and Culture
May 3, 2021

Evolution

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Evolutionists argue that organisms can evolve by loss of function. Sounds like Behe’s hypothesis. But you’ll never get wings and eyes that way. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 3, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, consciousness, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, evolution, Francis Collins, geneticists, methodological naturalism, natural selection, particle physics, Paul Davies, population genetics, Richard Goldschmidt, Richard Lewontin, The Goldilocks Enigma, The Language of God, universe}

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

_{Robert Shedinger
February 3, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Mathematics, Origin of Life

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Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 30, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology”

_{Granville Sewell
October 30, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Origin of Life

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We still are not close to designing any self-replicating machine. That is still pure science fiction. Read More ›

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Author
James Le Fanu

Date
September 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Boeing 747, C.S. Lewis, cells, chemical elements, double helix, earth, electromagnetism, fly, Fred Hoyle, geneticists, gravity, Harvard University, humanities, John Polkinghorne, man, Mary Midgley, mouse, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, plate tectonics, Sapientia, science, Scientia, scientism, solar system, speed of light, strong and weak nuclear forces, tornado, universe, University of Birmingham, William Provine, World War II}

Between Sapientia and Scientia — Michael Aeschliman’s Profound Interpretation

_{James Le Fanu
September 9, 2019

Bioethics, Biology

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Science, the dominant way of knowing of our age, now finds itself caught between a rock and (very) hard place. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptive mutations, ants, bacteria, bacteriophages, BioEssays, budding yeast, Cell (journal), cetaceans, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, deletions, Eugene Koonin, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, gain-of-function mutations, geneticists, horizontal gene transfer, insertions, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bears, The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology, viruses}

Bacteriophages, Budding Yeast, and Behe’s Vindication

_{Ann Gauger
November 26, 2018

Evolution

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It’s been known for some time that bacteria evade antibiotics by mutating the target of the antibiotic, often at a cost to themselves. Read More ›