Tag: Genetics (journal)

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, Athena, Australopithecines, biological origins, butterfly, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Christmas, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, free speech, French Revolution, Genetics (journal), Günter Bechly, human brains, human origins, Human Origins Program, Human Zoos, humans, intelligent design, Jeffrey Schwartz, John West, mammals, mosasaurs, National Museum of Natural History, Niles Eldredge, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Racism, Richard Sternberg, Rick Potts, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Washington DC, Zeus}

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

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October 5, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Australopithecus, Bernard Wood, Bible, Christianity Today, Darwinian evolution, East Africa, evolution, FOXP2, Francis Collins, genes, Genetics (journal), Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, human intelligence, human origins, Ian Tattersall, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), integration, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, mutations, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Robin Williams, Sapiens (book), science and religion, The Language of God, Time Magazine, William Lane Craig, Yuval Noah Harari}

Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

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November 10, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alfred Tennyson, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, élan vital, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Harvard School of Public Health, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Joseph Conrad, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Salvador Luria, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn}

The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 7, 2020

Evolution, Science Education

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The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, CCC, chloroquine resistance, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Douglas Futuyma, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Genetics (journal), Jerry Coyne, Joseph Thornton, Kenneth Miller, Laurence Moran, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, Nathan Lents, National Academy of Sciences, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nicholas Matzke, oocyte, Plasmodium falciparum, PNAS, Response to Criticism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, Robert L. Summers, Russell Doolittle, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, The Edge of Evolution, Xenopus laevis}

From Swamidass on Chloroquine Resistance, a Response that Doesn’t Respond

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February 20, 2019

Evolution

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Swamidass’s response doesn’t address our main arguments, but he indicates he is impressed by what Darwinian mechanisms accomplished in generating chloroquine resistance. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, antibiotic resistance, chloroquine, chloroquine complexity cluster, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, evidence, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, Genetics (journal), intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John West, Kenneth Miller, malaria, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, natural selection, Paul Gross, Plasmodium falciparum, point mutations, Response to Criticism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lenski, Robert L. Summers, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), Sean Carroll, The Edge of Evolution, The Greatest Show on Earth, theory, University of Georgia}

Science Review Offers False Accusations about Chloroquine Resistance

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February 14, 2019

Evolution

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In one paragraph Lents et al. twice cited sources they thought contradicted Behe, and twice suggested he ignored or dismissed contrary evidence. Read More ›

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Date
July 18, 2018

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __nedited, adaptability, adaptation, angiosperms, antidote, Austria, causal circularity, Charles Darwin, Douglas Axe, evolutionary genetics, flowering plants, gametes, Genetics (journal), inbreeding, Institute of Science and Technology, intelligent design, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, ova, pollen, theistic evolution, toxins, Undeniable (book)}

Three Ways that Plants Defy Darwin’s Mechanism

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July 18, 2018

Botany, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Plants have no brains and limited mobility, yet they have mechanisms to thrive in place. One mechanism involves the prevention of inbreeding. Read More ›