Tag: Gregor Mendel

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, causation, character string, context, design intuitions, design perspective, English, food, function, genetics, Genetics (journal), genotype, Gregor Mendel, guitar, house, language, Mendelian genetics, natural language, noun, phenotype, pleiotropy, poker, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, sensory organs, skull, verb, vertebrates, vocalization}

“Beyond Mendel”: Leading Investigators Appeal for a New Genetics

_{Paul Nelson
April 20, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

3}

Top-down causation makes a lot more sense from a design perspective than from any reductionist, lower-levels-first approach. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, clouds, Eugene Wigner, France, Galileo Galilei, geometry, Gregor Mendel, Ignaz Semmelweis, Jews, mathematics, mountains, Nazis, Poland, reputation, Science (journal), Science News, trees, truth, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, William Harvey}

Benoît B. Mandelbrot: A Maverick Who Broke the Consensus

_{David Coppedge
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

9}

The Mandelbrot set reminds me of the Fibonacci series that, in a similar way, gives rise to aesthetically pleasing patterns in a wide variety of natural phenomena. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, coincidence, deception, Design Inference, Gregor Mendel, honesty, improbability, New York Times, peas, plagiarism, probability, protocols, specification, UC San Diego}

Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 28, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Physical Sciences

8}

What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting. Read More ›

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Date
June 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, evolution, Gregor Mendel, ID the Future, inheritance, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, podcast, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Listen: Mendel vs. Darwin

_{Science & Culture
June 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

1}

Unfortunately, acceptance of Darwinism hindered acceptance of Gregor Mendel’s great insights. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
March 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, alt-right, American Renaissance, Charles Darwin, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, evolution, German, Gregor Mendel, John Derbyshire, Kenya, Kevin MacDonald, natural selection, Nazis, neo-Nazis, Nordic race, Norway, Steve Sailer, Sweden, white nationalists}

Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right

_{Richard Weikart
March 1, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

10}

The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism. Read More ›

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Date
May 6, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cassini mission, Christianity, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, creation myth, Enceladus, evolution, Gregor Mendel, history, hydrothermal vents, Jay Richards, Michael Keas, Miller-Urey experiment, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Saturn, Unbelievable}

From Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Most Plausible” Creation Myths

_{Science & Culture
May 6, 2020

Faith & Science, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

1}

Dr. Tyson’s imagination wanders from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 18, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, biological information, Christianity, Communists, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, earth, Enceladus, Fox Broadcasting Company, Gregor Mendel, Internet trolls, John Herschel, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, materialism, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, oxygen, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Trofim Lysenko}

New Cosmos Episodes: Only Part of the Story

_{Science & Culture
March 18, 2020

Chemistry, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

5}

These episodes will slip in smoothly in public school science classrooms, someday when all the schools reopen. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 20, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, atheism, barnacles, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, England, evolution, Gregor Mendel, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, Louis Pasteur, On the Origin of Species, Paul Ehrlich, pilgrimage, tautology, theocracy}

Darwinian Faith and Fetish

_{Michael Egnor
August 20, 2018

Biology, Evolution

4}

Andrew Berry, the Harvard biologist who conducts a Darwin pilgrimage each year for undergraduates to Darwin-related sites in England, responds to my recent post. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 11, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", Case Western Reserve University, Charles Darwin, climate change, Darwinian evolution, David Klinghoffer, Gregor Mendel, Human Errors, Ian Tattersall, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jonathan Wells, Michael Egnor, Nathan Lents, Paul Nelson, peer review, psychologist, Psychology Today, Skeptical Inquirer, stereotype}

Why Argue with Intelligent Design? Offer Drive-By Psychotherapy Instead!

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 11, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design

7}

Avoiding serious discussion of design in nature (and of many other questions) fills a need. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 24, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, history, Research}

Geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig on Darwinism and Gregor Mendel’s “Sleeping Beauty”

_{Science & Culture
March 24, 2017

Evolution, Genetics, Science

4}

In impeding the emergence of genetics, Darwinian evolution was a science stopper, and not for the first time. Read More ›