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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Britain, Down House, evolution, friendship, George Romanes, history, HMS Beagle, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, natural selection, Oxbridge, Peter Bowler, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, sociologists, Thomas Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Westminster Abbey, William Whewell}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin and the English Class System

_{Neil Thomas
August 24, 2022

Evolution, Science

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The theory of natural selection was the co-discovery of two men, but by the mid 1860s one of its progenitors began to reject his own theory. Read More ›

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Date
August 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, devolution, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, lactase persistence, Lehigh University, malaria, Michael Behe, mutations, tuskless elephants}

Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design

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August 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In Africa, having the devolutionary mutation that leaves an elephant tuskless renders the creature of no interest to elephant-slaying ivory poachers. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", ad hoc hypotheses, Big Think, Dartmouth College, David Klinghoffer, Eugene Koonin, Evolution News, First Cause, Gottfried Leibniz, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, Marcello Gleiser, multiverse, universe}

Physicist: “The Multiverse Is a Lot Like God”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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I have to admit it makes me smile to think Professor Gleiser’s thoughts ahead of him. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 22, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, Arctic terns, atmosphere, bats, Carsten Egevang, Corryn Wetzel, dragonflies, Eric Cassell, Evolution News, field work, Flight, Germany, insects, intelligent design, locusts, Maine, Maryland, materialists, McGill University, Michael Denton, migration, New Scientist, optimization, Pennsylvania, sunlight, The Miracle of Man, The Wonder of Water, University of Exeter, University of Oldenburg, water}

Birds, Bats, Insects: Field Work on Animal Flight Reveals Wonders of Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
August 22, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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The capabilities of flying animals continue to amaze scientists, and explanations challenge their best efforts. Does evolutionary theory help? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 19, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Anchiornis, Archaeopteryx, Aurornis, birds, China, common descent, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae, England, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, intelligent design, Jurassic, Late Jurassic, Luis Chiappe, Madagascar, Middle Jurassic, missing links, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, Portugal, Scotland, Temporal Paradox, The Guardian, Tree of Life, Upper Jurassic, Utah, Xiaotingia}

Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

_{Günter Bechly
August 19, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Christianity, creation, demiurge, Discovery Institute, Early Church, evolution, gnosticism, God and Evolution, Gospel of John, history, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, Judaism, Lucretius, materialists, Richard Dawkins, Talmud, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Culture, Faith & Science

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Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Energy, fear, heart, human life, humans, intelligent design, invention, light, medicine, metaphor, Michael Denton, oxygen, predators, prior fitness, red blood cells, The Miracle of Man, transition metals, water}

Michael Denton Explains the Miracle of Your Heart

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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There is more that most people – probably most scientists – have never even considered, and that seals the case for the heart’s intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
August 16, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Denis Noble, DNA, embryo, evolution, evolutionary biology, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, fruit flies, Gerd Müller, horse, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Wells, Neo-Darwinism, Raju Pookottil, Royal Society, Susan Mazur, Third Way of Evolution, Why Evolution Is True, Zombie Science (book)}

Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

_{Jonathan Wells
August 16, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

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No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Bernardo Kastrup, birds, cephalopods, Christianity, consciousness, dreaming, general relativity, gravitational waves, humans, intelligent design, Judaism, mammals, mental states, Michael Egnor, neocortex, protists, rapid eye movement, REM sleep, sensory organs, spiders, thermostat, Thomistic philosophy}

Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor

_{Günter Bechly
August 12, 2022

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, beetles, Brazil, butterflies, convergence, Crato Formation, Darwinism, design pattern, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, insects, intelligent design, Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lower Cretaceous, Lower Jurassic, mouthparts, natural selection, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, University of Tübingen}

Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

_{Günter Bechly
August 12, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Read More ›