Charles-darwin-portrait-sitting-on-chair-sketch 2 Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date July 7, 2020 CategoriesEvolutionScience Education Tagged , Alfred Tennyson, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, élan vital, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Harvard School of Public Health, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Joseph Conrad, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Salvador Luria, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution Robert Shedinger July 7, 2020 Evolution, Science Education 7 The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›
Paul_Davies_2016 Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date March 6, 2020 CategoriesCosmologyIntelligent DesignOrigin of LifePhysical Sciences Tagged , __edited, Barbara McClintock, chaos, Discovery Institute, engineers, Eva Jablonka, intelligence, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, James Shapiro, John Cairns, Maxwell’s demon, molecular machines, motors, nanotechnology, natural genetic engineering, order, origin of information, Paul Davies, rotors, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Meyer, The Demon in the Machine Hey, Paul Davies — Your ID Is Showing Robert Shedinger March 6, 2020 Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences 5 No better advertisements for intelligent design exist than works written by establishment scientists that unintentionally make design arguments. Read More ›
August_Weismann-2 Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date August 16, 2019 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __edited, August Weismann, Barry Hall, blasphemy, central dogma, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, dogmatism, evidence, Francis Crick, heresy, ideology, John Cairns, Lamarckian theory, Luther College, Lutherans, Martin Luther, Matti Leisola, Max Delbrück, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orthodoxy, Richard Lenski, Roman Catholic, Ronald Fisher, Salvador Luria, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms The Ideological Nature of Darwinian Evolution Robert Shedinger August 16, 2019 Evolution 6 Orthodoxy and heresy are not synonyms for true and false, and sometimes the truth might lie with the heretics. Read More ›
Joshua Swamidass Type post Date August 27, 2018 CategoriesIntelligent DesignMedicine Tagged , __k-review, Ann Gauger, BioLogos, C.S. Lewis, cancer, Douglas Axe, evolution, gain of function, intelligent design, John Cairns, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, Michael Lynch, mutations, Nature Genetics, pathogens, Peaceful Science, S. Joshua Swamidass, The Edge of Evolution, theistic evolution, TP53 gene, tumor Swamidass: Cancer “Can Innovate” Science and Culture August 27, 2018 Intelligent Design, Medicine 8 Cancer proves evolution only insofar as one forgets, or pretends not to know, what evolution is supposed to explain. Read More ›
epigenetic-inheritance-in-fruit-flies Type post Author Cornelius Hunter Date August 1, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionScience Tagged , __k-review, Barry Hall, Cornell University, egg cells, epigenetics, evolution, germ line, John Cairns, Lamarckism, somatic cells, sperm Evolution’s Third Rail — Transgenerational Epigenetics Can Have a Profound Impact Cornelius Hunter August 1, 2017 Evolution, Science 4 It is an enormous problem to explain how such capabilities evolved. Read More ›
