Tag: gradualism

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge, creativity, Darwinian evolution, David Berlinski, Ediacaran biota, England, explosions, flowering plants, fossil record, Gerd Müller, gradualism, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, jumps, Neo-Darwinism, predictions, revolutions, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, saltations}

“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

_{David Klinghoffer
December 18, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
June 27, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", Ailuropoda, bears, evolution, François Jacob, gradualism, intelligent design, Max Planck Institute, Nathan Lents, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, Nobel Prize, Panda's Thumb, primates, Stephen Dilley, Stuart Burgess, Ursidae}

New Paper on the Panda’s Thumb: “Striking Imperfection or Masterpiece of Engineering?”

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 27, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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"If the panda’s thumb is an embodiment of bad design, where are the evolutionists’ proposals indicating how they could have done better?" Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Australopithecus, biologic institute, computer simulation, coordinated mutations, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Discovery Institute, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Fossil Friday (series), generations, gradualism, Indohyus, John Sanford, limits of evolution, macroevolution, Michael Behe, Michael Shermer, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, objections, Ola Hössjer, paleontology, population genetics, radiometric dating, recombination, Richard Dawkins, saltationism, species pair challenge, species pairs, The Edge of Evolution, tiktaalik, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations

_{Günter Bechly
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Paleontology

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As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abduction, anomalies, artifacts, Avalon explosion, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Carboniferous Insect Explosion, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Doubt, Devonian Nekton Revolution, explosions, Fossil Friday (series), George Gaylord Simpson, GOBE, gradualism, great Ordovician biodiversification event, Lower Cambrian, molecular biology, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, photosynthesis, population genetics, predictions, random mutations, revolutions, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, specified complexity, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Greatest Show on Earth}

Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
May 10, 2024

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events. Read More ›

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Date
January 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Darwinian gradualism, enzymes, gradualism, health, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jorn Dyerberg, living cell, metabolism, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, nutrition, omega-3 fatty acids, podcast}

Omega-3 Nutrition Pioneer Tells How He Saw Irreducible Complexity in Cells 40 Years Ago

_{Science and Culture
January 22, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science

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Jorn Dyerberg, the Danish biologist, talks with physicist Brian Miller about finding irreducible complexity in cells. Read More ›

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post

Date
December 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, complexity, Darwinism, evolutionary theory, gradualism, hearing, Howard Glicksman, human body, intelligent design, just-so stories, medicine, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, physicians, Steve Laufmann, systems engineering, vision, Your Designed Body}

A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body

_{Science and Culture
December 20, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body — the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, common descent, convergence, debates, directed mutations, evolution, evolutionists, gradualism, just-so stories, Lund University, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, naturalism, saltationism, textbooks, The Conversation}

There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

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What is evolution? In other words, what is core to the theory — and not forfeitable? It’s naturalism. Period. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), gradualism, Harvard University, Henry Gee, hominids, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, jaws, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, paleoanthropology, Richard Lewontin, Ronald Wetherington, skulls, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Jay Gould, Texas State Board of Education, textbooks}

Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature

_{Casey Luskin
October 24, 2022

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Basics of Intelligent Design Biology, biologists, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, evolution, explosions, fossil record, gradualism, intelligent design, Internet, junk science, Khan Academy, Lukas Ruegger, neo-Darwinian theory, paleontologists, PragerU, Stephen Meyer}

“Darwin’s Nightmare”: First Episode of YouTube Series with Lukas Ruegger

_{David Klinghoffer
March 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Relatively brief videos have emerged as one of the most dynamic and influential forms of education out there. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Altenberg 16, athletes, biological novelty, body size, Cambrian Explosion, Communications Biology, evolution, Gerd Müller, gradualism, humans, Jeffrey Schwartz, Jerry Fodor, lamprey, mammals, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, New Zealand, Paul Nelson, PowerPoint, Richard Goldschmidt, Royal Society, Science Daily, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Material Basis of Evolution, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism

_{Casey Luskin
March 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology. Read More ›