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Date
October 7, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, activists, atheism, Ball State University, Canceled Science, career, cosmos, earth, Eric Hedin, higher intelligence, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, laws of nature, life, physicists, professors}

Watch: Dr. Hedin’s Dangerous Question

_{Science & Culture
October 7, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Eric Hedin was enjoying a productive career as a professor at Ball State University when atheist activists tried to cancel him. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blind spot, capillaries, cephalopod, Douglas Futuyma, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, George Williams, human eye, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Nathan Lents, optic nerve, oxygen, retina, Richard Dawkins, Richard Young, The Blind Watchmaker, toxins, vertebrate}

Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, astrology, birds, Charles Darwin, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), hybridization, Jerry Coyne, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins}

Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

_{Günter Bechly
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Genetics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, boxing, Canada, censorship, chromosomes, evolutionary biologists, Facebook, free speech, Jerry Coyne, misinformation, Moon, Olympics, religion, Richard Dawkins, science, Scientific American, sex binary, Sports, testosterone, The Last Supper, wokeness, women}

Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Genetics, Scientific Freedom

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Dawkins and others believe that Facebook’s ban hammer fell on his questions about Imane Khalif competing in the women’s division boxing at the 2024 Olympics. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Douglas Axe, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheists, Normal Science, panpsychism, paradigm shift, post-truth, Professor Dave, PZ Myers, Royal Society, Sam Harris, scientism, spiritualism, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution, vitalism, Zeitgeist}

Is This a Paradigm Shift?

_{Daniel Witt
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Evolution News, Forbes, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Joana Xavier, MIT Press, neo-Darwinists, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Perry Marshall, persecution, physiologists, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy}

Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

_{Daniel Witt and David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 2, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bees, consciousness, Cornell University, herbivores, illusion, intelligence, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, naturalism, panpsychism}

Evolutionary Biologist Defines Goldenrod Plant as “Intelligent”

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 2, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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The media release for the journal paper, sponsored by Cornell University, illustrates the growing comfort of science with panpsychist ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 30, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, feelings, human consciousness, insects, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, natural selection, naturalism, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, protozoans, qualia, Queen Mary University, Scientific American, sentience, Tufts University}

Bees with Feelings? A Darwinist Winces

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 30, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Most naturalist philosophers of mind have held that human consciousness — maddeningly mysterious — is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bret Weinstein, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Darwinists, David Gelernter, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, jesus, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, The Selfish Gene, Yale University}

Evolutionary Biologist Concedes Intelligent Design Is the Cutting Edge

_{David Klinghoffer
June 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are well-known evolutionary biologists (and husband and wife) with a podcast. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 20, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, atheism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ball State University, Brandeis University, Censor of the Year, Colin Wright, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Eric Hedin, evolutionary theory, Free Science, free speech, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jews, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, The Boundaries of Science, The College Fix, Wall Street Journal, William A. Dembski, wokeness}

When Materialism Turns on Its Own

_{Jonathan Witt
June 20, 2024

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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A cadre of atheist scientists, including Lawrence Krauss and Jerry Coyne, have long worked to silence and deplatform scientists who hold to the theory of ID. Read More ›