Tag: Jean Rostand

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 2, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, African elephants, Asian elephants, Bible, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, chimps, classes, computers, creations, Darwinism, designs, evolution, Evolution after Darwin, explosions, fossil record, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, Gorilla gorilla, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, orders, Pan paniscus, phyla, software, species pair problem, theists, TimeTree.org, University of Chicago Press}

Günter Bechly and the “Species Pair” Problem

_{Granville Sewell
June 2, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Asian elephants (like the one at the top of this page) and their African counterparts apparently diverged about 8 million years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

_{Granville Sewell
June 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, Darwinism, empirical science, evidence, evolution, Evolution News, Field Museum of Natural History, Jean Rostand, Jonathan Wells, materialistic science, New York Times, The Guardian}

The Mystery of Evolution May Be Unsolvable — By Materialist Science

_{Granville Sewell
October 2, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Seventy years later we are still not close to explaining the origin and development of life in terms of entirely natural (unintelligent) causes. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
April 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Apple iPhones, humans, Jean Rostand, scientists}

Some Problems Can Be Proved Unsolvable

_{Granville Sewell
April 30, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A number of theories as to how life could have originated through entirely unintelligent processes have been proposed, but none are plausible. Read More ›

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post

Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 30, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology”

_{Granville Sewell
October 30, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Origin of Life

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We still are not close to designing any self-replicating machine. That is still pure science fiction. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Shermer

Date
January 24, 2012

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, creationism, Crick, Darwin, Darwin's Heretic (Alfred Wallace), DNA, evolution, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Michael Flannery, Watson}

The Natural and the Supernatural: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Nature of Science

_{Michael Shermer
January 24, 2012

Intelligent Design

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The reason scientists do not take seriously the claims of Intelligent Design theorists today is the same reason that scientists did not take seriously Wallace's speculations about an "overarching intelligence." Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 24, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Crick, Darwinian evolution, DNA, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jean Rostand, Watson}

The Chief Part of the Spectacle is Supplied by Life

_{Granville Sewell
January 24, 2012

Evolution

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Are the three "cardinal problems" of biology still almost untouched? Read More ›