Tag: Günter Bechly

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, Artur Świergiel, beauty, biochemistry, Darwinism, Dimenticare Darwin, Discovery Institute, Europe, Giuseppe Sermonti, Grzegorz Malec, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Italy, Jonathan McLatchie, Jonathan Wells, Mauro Stenico, Nature, Norway, order, Øyvind Voie, paleontologists, physiology, Poland, Seattle, Umberto Fasol, United Kingdom, United States, utilitarianism, Venice, Vittorio Cocchi, Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?}

At Conference in Venice, Scientists Discuss Challenges to Darwin, Past and Future

_{John G. West
October 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One of the highlights was a poignant talk by Italian biologist Umberto Fasol, who recounted how a seminal book challenging Darwinism had changed his life Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, A Civic Biology, ACLU, Alexander Heard, Antonin Scalia, Arkansas, Ball State University, blacklisting, censorship, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, Dayton, Denis Noble, education, Eric Hedin, evolution, free speech, Günter Bechly, history, ID 3.0, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John Scopes, Julian Huxley, Michael Behe, monkey law, National Center for Science Education, Neo-Darwinism, npr, Richard Sternberg, Scopes trial, speech codes, Stephen Jay Gould, Tennessee, tenure, The Daily Wire, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University}

A Century After the Scopes Trial, Censoring Spirit on Evolution Still Thrives

_{Casey Luskin
July 22, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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From evolutionists, a surge of persecutions has included tenure denials, job blacklisting, and speech codes. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, BBC Earth Science, bullfighters, bullfighting, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dayton, drinking, drumstick, eating, Ernest Hemingway, Evangelical Christians, evolutionary orthodoxy, fishing, fist-fighting, Günter Bechly, H. L. Mencken, headlines, Jake Barnes, jealousy, Jews, John Scopes, journalism, Lady Brett Ashley, newspapers, paleontologists, Pamplona, Paris, Princeton University, Robert Cohn, Scopes trial, Spain, The Sun Also Rises, William Jennings Bryan}

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Brian Miller, cellular structures, computer scientists, Daniel Witt, David Deutsch, DNA, Eric Hedin, Evolution News, George F. R. Ellis, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, information, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, life, mathematical biology, mathematicians, Max Tegmark, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, organisms, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, Roger Penrose, The Immortal Mind, time and space, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

_{David Klinghoffer
June 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academia, animals, biological complexity, biology, biopsychism, chemistry, Communicative & Integrative Biology, Evolution and the Fate of Humankind, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Manuel DeLanda, Marco Masi, materialism, metaphysical vitalism, methodology, Michael Levin, min, nest-building, nurturing, Peter Corning, physical vitalism, physics, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, protection, Richard Sternberg, synergy, teleonomy, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vital force, vitalism}

Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism

_{Daniel Witt
June 6, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alexander T. Englert, Apostle Paul, biochemical activities, biology, creator, David Klinghoffer, DNA, Epimenides of Crete, evolution, Genesis, genome, genomic studies, Günter Bechly, incompleteness theorem, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Kurt Gödel, naturalism, paleontologists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Roger Penrose, software, topology, transcription, unguided processes, University of Chicago}

Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

_{Eric Hedin
May 27, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 25, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, Associated Press, Barbara Wagstaff, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, Charnia, Cornelius Hunter, Current Biology, Devonian Period, Flinders University, Fractofusus, Günter Bechly, Joe Moysiuk, John Long, Journal of the Geological Society, Justin Jackson, Live Science, mammoth, Marcin Ambrozik, Modura, Nature Communications, New Scientist, Per Ahlberg, radiodont, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Society Open Science, Saint James, The Conversation, tiktaalik, true cross, University of Melbourne, Vera Korasidis}

Fossils as Magical Darwin Relics

_{David Coppedge
May 25, 2025

Archaeology, Evolution, Paleontology

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Fossils can be handled in the present, but how they are used by evolutionists in stories of history resembles the practices of overeager medieval churchmen. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 23, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), atheism, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Darwinian evolution, environments, evolutionary icons, Günter Bechly, humans, immaterial genome, Michael Levin, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic space, protein-coding DNA, Richard Sternberg, science education, science media, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, zookeepers, zoos}

Immaterial Genome Meets the Human-Chimp “1 Percent” Myth

_{David Klinghoffer
May 23, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Obviously, humans and chimps are a whole lot more “different” than 1 percent. But…they’re also a lot more different than 14.9 percent. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
May 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Bremermann’s limit, Christians, computer scientists, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, DNA, elevator pitch, epigenetics, Günter Bechly, Hans-Joachim Bremermann, Harvard University, idealists, immaterial genome, intelligent design, John Zmirak, kabbalists, logos, materialists, mathematicians, Michael Levin, neo-Platonists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, proteins, Proverbs, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, Tufts University}

Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

_{John Zmirak
May 21, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Technology

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"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that." Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lars Löfgren, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, sequoia trees, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›