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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
July 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bears, biologists, deletions, diploidal genome, evolution, genera, geneticists, insertions, intelligent design, mutations, neo-Darwinian theory, Panda's Thumb, phenotype, researchers, species, stasis}

More on the Panda’s Thumb: Imperfection or Masterpiece?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
July 21, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I would like to express my appreciation as a geneticist and biologist for the work on the molecular investigations and many other topics in the panda’s biology. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Darwinian materialism, evolution, geneticists, ID the Future, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

_{Science & Culture
January 14, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, COVID-19, disinformation, experts, Francis Collins, gain of function, geneticists, George W. Bush, Great Barrington Declaration, Human Genome Project, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, morality, pathogens, public health, Wuhan}

Francis Collins Disappointed as a Public-Health Leader

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 3, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Many Christians looked to Collins, an Evangelical Christian who was also a brilliant scientist, to bring a greater sense of morality to the research pursuit. Read More ›

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Date
April 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, evolution, geneticists, Germany, ID the Future, intelligent design, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mutations, natural selection, plant galls, podcast, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Do Plant Galls Falsify Darwinism?

_{Science & Culture
April 17, 2023

Biology, Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Charles Darwin was profoundly interested in plant galls, and Darwin himself proposed the challenge these and other forms may pose to his ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), okapi, President, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, 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, 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, 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 & 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
, alleles, Casey Luskin, Darwin Devolves, DNA, evolution, genes, geneticists, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, positive selection}

More on Evolution by Subtraction

_{Science & 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 Lewontin, 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 ›